# Has the SDMB community ever witnessed someone go insane? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2014, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106 "2014-04-14T19:19:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/1 "2014-04-14T19:19:18Z")
I can’t remember names, but every once in a while someone will mention a poster who was clearly very mentally disturbed. And there are posters who are open about their depression, Bi-polar disorder or other mental conditions. Have there been any long-time posters who started out rock-solid sane, but through their posts it was obvious that they were exhibiting signs of schizophrenia, paranoia (beyond the usual CT crap), etc? ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/2 "2014-04-14T19:37:18Z")
There have been at least one depressed person who ended up committing suicide. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/3 "2014-04-14T19:40:37Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > There have been at least one depressed person who ended up committing suicide. Creepiest post/username ever. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/4 "2014-04-14T19:47:05Z")
I have my suspicions. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/5 "2014-04-14T20:03:19Z")
I’ve seen a few that probably don’t count, since you can’t “go” insane if you’re already there. (On some days, I should probably include myself in that group…) ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/6 "2014-04-14T20:09:27Z")
Basically any such individuals would probably get Banned before they reached the insane stage. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/7 "2014-04-14T20:18:45Z")
Member **Quasimodem** has changed since his Alzheimer’s diagnosis. He is very upfront about it. It seems to frustrate him a lot. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/8 "2014-04-14T20:46:25Z")
We read about the guy taking mushrooms. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/9 "2014-04-14T20:48:44Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Member **Quasimodem** has changed since his Alzheimer’s diagnosis. He is very upfront about it. It seems to frustrate him a lot. Well that’s hardly surprising. I think everyone with Alzheimer’s gets incredibly frustrated by it, for good reason, until they get too far gone to know. (I watched my aunt going through it, at a relatively young age.) Alzheimer’s is not insanity, though (although some of the symptoms can look a bit like it). Also, I’m a kumquat. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/10 "2014-04-14T21:16:40Z")
Wasn’t there a poster who was convinced that his neighbors in another apartment were “following him around” and talking about him in undiscernible voices? After it became clear that he was delusional, we all tried to convince him to see a doctor. Unsuccessfully, probably. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/11 "2014-04-14T21:28:51Z")
Trouble is, how could we ever know for sure? Between impossible quadriplegics, pyjama-pants girls and posters who watch movies with their special ghost friend, no one can be truly sure of anything they read on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/12 "2014-04-14T21:39:54Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > I’ve seen a few that probably don’t count, since you can’t “go” insane if you’re already there. > > (On some days, I should probably include myself in that group…) This, pretty much. Also… nobody in this thread has mentioned me yet? 😉 🙂 Seriously, though, sometimes I’m worried I’ll go off the rails (more than I already am) and that it’ll show up in my posts, more than usual. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/13 "2014-04-14T21:44:42Z")
Remember **Tech Chick**? She was always a little off, but something happened and she went completely bonkers and reportedly conspired with a previously banned poster to try to take down the board. That was an interesting time. Probably 2002 or thereabouts. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/14 "2014-04-14T22:19:58Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > This, pretty much. > > Also… nobody in this thread has mentioned me yet? 😉 🙂 > > Seriously, though, sometimes I’m worried I’ll go off the rails (more than I already am) and that it’ll show up in my posts, more than usual. I believe worrying about it is proof that you are not. To the Thread at Large: What’s the “Pyjama Girls” thing? How to I get one? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/15 "2014-04-14T22:57:07Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > What’s the “Pyjama Girls” thing? > How to I get one? You do it the old fashioned way-you make one up. “My date with the Cute Pyjama Pants wearing girl”: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=111990](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=111990) “Anyone else’s BS meter going off?”: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=116085](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=116085) About someone going insane - what about this famous meltdown: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=728367&postcount=228](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=728367&postcount=228) "I believe everything I said, even the parts that contradict the other parts, but I know that none of it is true. " Was it real? Or mere trolling? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/16 "2014-04-14T23:26:06Z")
I recall one poster who was suspended until he got his bipolar under control, but I prefer not to name names. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/17 "2014-04-14T23:35:29Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Wasn’t there a poster who was convinced that his neighbors in another apartment were “following him around” and talking about him in undiscernible voices? After it became clear that he was delusional, we all tried to convince him to see a doctor. Unsuccessfully, probably. IIRC he (she?) was listening through the floors of the apartment, it wasn’t even like someone was following them around outside, it was that they were convinced the people downstairs were following them around room to room. But someone showing up already like that is one thing, it’s different then a long standing poster going off the rails. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/18 "2014-04-14T23:40:45Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > I’ve seen a few that probably don’t count, since you can’t “go” insane if you’re already there. Yeah, there usually already broken by the time we get 'em. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/19 "2014-04-14T23:55:58Z")
Maybe [Beryl Mooncalf](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=211820)? Or was he already crazy when he arrived? ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/20 "2014-04-15T00:14:27Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I believe worrying about it is proof that you are not. > > To the Thread at Large: > What’s the “Pyjama Girls” thing? > How to I get one? Posting in haiku form is a sure sign of mental instability. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106.md?page=2)