My Submission For The DSM-6
By Mitch Berg
To: American Psychiatric Assocation (APA)
From: Mitch Berg, uppity peasant
Re: Cyberphrenia
To whom it may concern,
Please accept the following submission for the sixth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-6), whenever you release it:
Cyberphrenia: a personality disorder which presents with a complete dissociation between the subject’s “online” and offline personalities.
This usually (but not uniformly) manifests as a subject developing an “online” personality that manifests as negative ideation ranging from mild impulse-control and conduct disorders to symptoms resembling full-blown sociopathy or narcissistic personality disorder.
Keep me posted.
That is all.
July 19th, 2013 at 4:38 pm
How about “liberalism”? Surely that qualifies as a mental disorder.
July 19th, 2013 at 5:36 pm
gee mitch, I don’t know what to think about this – people tell me that I’m much more civilized on line than when they meet me in meatspace.