Lang

[Chalcedony]

Moss said:

QEFTSG = Queer Eye For The Strait Guy

Always happy to please Chalc

Thank you. You are an officer AND a gentleman.

[Rowan]

I am coming at this from a nursing perspective, after reading close to 500 posts by Languatron on numerous boards I offer the following for your consideration.

Delusional Disorder
SYMPTOMS
This disorder is characterized by the presence of non-bizarre delusions which have persisted for at least one month. Non-bizarre delusions typically are beliefs of something occurring in a person's life which is not out of the realm of possibility. For example, the person may believe their significant other is cheating on them, that someone close to them is about to die, a friend is really a government agent (or in this case a Universal Executive), etc. All of these situations could be true or possible, but the person suffering from this disorder knows them not to be (e.g., through fact-checking, third-person confirmation, etc.).
People who have this disorder generally don't experience a marked impairment in their daily functioning in a social, occupational or other important setting. Outward behavior is not noticeably bizarre or objectively characterized as out-of-the-ordinary.
The delusions can not be better accounted for by another disorder, such as schizophrenia, which is also characterized by delusions (which are bizarre). The delusions also cannot be better accounted for by a mood disorder, if the mood disturbances have been relatively brief.
Psychiatric definition
The psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers first defined the three main criteria for a belief to be considered delusional in his book General Psychopathology. These criteria are:
• certainty (held with absolute conviction)
• incorrigibility (not changeable by compelling counterargument or proof to the contrary)
• impossibility or falsity of content (implausible, bizarre or patently untrue)
These criteria still live on in modern psychiatric diagnosis. In the most recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a delusion is defined as:
A false belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly sustained despite what almost everybody else believes and despite what constitutes incontrovertible and obvious proof or evidence to the contrary. The belief is not one ordinarily accepted by other members of the person's culture or subculture (e.g. it is not an article of religious faith).

In practice psychiatrists tend to diagnose a belief as delusional if it is either patently bizarre, causing significant distress, or excessively pre-occupies the patient, especially if the person is subsequently unswayed in their belief by counter-evidence or reasonable argument.
The most common delusion in delusional disorder is that of persecution. While persons with paranoid personality might suspect their colleagues of joking at their expense, persons with delusional disorder may suspect others of participating in elaborate master plots to persecute them. They believe that they are being poisoned, drugged, spied upon, or are the targets of conspiracies to ruin their reputations or even to kill them. They sometimes engage in litigation in an attempt to redress imagined injustices.
Whether or not persons with delusional disorder are dangerous to others has not been systematically investigated, but clinical experience suggests that such persons are rarely homicidal. Delusional patients are commonly angry people, and thus they are perceived as threatening. In the rare instances when individuals with delusional disorder do become violent, their victims are usually people who unwittingly fit into their delusional scheme. The person in most danger from an individual with delusional disorder is a spouse or lover.
Reasons for this disorder:
Delusions can be a feature of a number of biological conditions, suggesting possibly biologic underpinnings for the disorder. Most commonly, neurological lesions associated with the temporal lobe, limbic system, and basal ganglia are implicated in delusional syndromes. Neurological observations indicate that delusional content is influenced by the extent and location of brain injury. Prominent cortical damage often leads to simple, poorly formed, persecutory delusions. Lesions of the basal ganglia elicit less cognitive disturbance and more complex delusional content. Right posterior cerebellar lesions are associated with misidentification syndromes. Excessive dopaminergic and reduced acetyl cholinergic activity have been linked to the formation of delusional symptoms.

Associated risk factors that suggest other avenues in the pathogenesis of delusions include advanced age, social isolation, group delusions (eg, in the McCarthy era), low socioeconomic status, premorbid personality disorder, sensory isolation (particularly deafness), recent immigration, family transmission, head injury, and substance abuse disorders.

[Xenu]

Well, if it doesn't fit Lang, it sure does fit my ex-girlfriend...

[Rowan]

(((((((((((((((((Xenu))))))))))))))))))
I'm sorry to hear this it could not have been an easy time for you.

[Xenu]

No, that one was no fun....and I wish I had been kidding

[Xenu]

Looks like Lang's back on the Sci-Fi boards
mboard.scifi.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=376848&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1#376848

[Chalcedony]

I think he's a comic genius trollboy. My favorite parts:

"The motto of Universal Studios is: "Do a good turn daily." Which pisses me off, since they ripped that off from the Boy Scouts."

"The way they're doing that? Ducks. It's unspeakable beyond that. The specifics would MAKE YOUR MIND MOLT. Ducks here. Ducks there. Ducks in someone's pants. Who's? NOT MINE! I can tell you that right now."

He sounds like Andy Rooney on mescaline. I like it.

"It is only a matter of time before Ronald D. Moore, David Eick, and Grizzly Adams - nature lover and DUCK HUNTER WITH HIS BARE HANDS - begin ATTACKING the 1978 "Galactica" series in the press AGAIN. Most likely, the repeat ATTACKS will coincide with the premiere of Ron Moore's [censored]-A-DOODLE-DOO-DOO FEST next month."

What is this guy's problem with DUCKS?

I mean, wow. He's got major duck issues.

Seriously, I think he might be this one really funny Australian guy that I know from e2, just out to take the piss.

xo
S.

[Mustex]

IANGUATRON HAS RETURNED!

[Basestar]

Xenu said:

Looks like Lang's back on the Sci-Fi boards
mboard.scifi.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=376848&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1#376848

No, that's lanQuatron, not LanGuatron

[Ioraptor]

I opened this forum and it was all red and blue and white specks were crawling down the board!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

My brain raced through the possibilities...
I was trapped in a time warp and I was reliving the election. But no, it couldnt be, no stupid anchor people making silly predictions about the outcome! Whew!
Then I thought,
I was having a flash back to the 60s when I took LDS.
But no, I wasnt born yet and I never took any Mormons.
Then I thought,
Languatron zapped me with a shrink ray and trapped me in one of those anti-galactica snow globes!

Thats it!

Somebody help me!

help me

[loserpatrol]

they dont crawl anymore . i had made a little game out of dodging the flakes with my cursor.

[caseOrange]

Xenu said:

Looks like Lang's back on the Sci-Fi boards

Is his avatar him? What's the deal with ducks? And what does he mean by "I contributed NOTHING to these ads"?

[cranky1c]

re: delusional disorder

I don't think we know enough about the case to make a definative diagnosis. Hard to know too much about the subjects real life from their e-life.

[Xenu]

cranky1c said:

re: delusional disorder

I don't think we know enough about the case to make a definative diagnosis. Hard to know too much about the subjects real life from their e-life.

Maybe so, but that's why we're not doctors....we just play them on the internet

[ViperPilotMomma]

Well, at least that way you probably won't get sued. Unless, of course, its by someone who plays a lawyer on the internet. [Or maybe by someone who slept in a Holiday Inn last night (ya know, like in their commercial?!) ]


VPM