# 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:** 2
**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 15, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/21 "2014-04-15T00:18:54Z")
There was also the time **jarbabyj** got into it with another poster and the other poster just went nuts and posted in huge bold fonts in an epic meltdown. I don’t think she literally went nuts but it was a scene to behold. I’ll take a quick look to see if I can find it. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/22 "2014-04-15T00:25:13Z")
I’m not exactly sure what you mean by GOing insane but I live next to a woman who clearly has mental problems. At the very least, as far as I can tell, she’s paranoid/delusional and bi-polar. Last year (on the last Sunday in July, it was) another insane woman drove a truck (not hers, as it turned out) around the neighborhood fairly early in the morning wreaking fairly major havoc - ramming the truck into houses and other personal property and attempting to run people (myself included) over. All the while yelling out the window about “Heaven and hell.” I’ve told people where I work that story - “My Brush with Insanity” I call it. I hope to never have as close a brush with insanity ever again. It was TRULY frightening. ---
**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 15, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/23 "2014-04-15T01:04:11Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > I’m not exactly sure what you mean by GOing insane but I live next to a woman who clearly has mental problems. At the very least, as far as I can tell, she’s paranoid/delusional and bi-polar. I think the OP is looking for someone who had a mental break right hear on the board, not in real life. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/24 "2014-04-15T01:43:34Z")
[This poster](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) got banned in 2010 after he basically [went off the rails](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=550478) and the mods had no choice. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/25 "2014-04-15T01:45:11Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > I think the OP is looking for someone who had a mental break right hear on the board, not in real life. Or, more precisely, a Doper whose IRL breakdown was chronicled through his/her postings. A la that Russian short story (was the author’s name Gogol?). ---
**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 15, 2014, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/26 "2014-04-15T01:54:15Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Or, more precisely, a Doper whose IRL breakdown was chronicled through his/her postings. A la that Russian short story (was the author’s name Gogol?). Turns out I still have [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=711833) bookmarked. I’m still waiting and watching for Lucent Technologies to rise from the abyss and swallow all of our souls. ---
**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 15, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/27 "2014-04-15T02:11:19Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Posting in haiku form is a sure sign of mental instability. “Butterflies rise in the dawn. muldoonthief sleeps and does not see them.” :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Inna\_Minnit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Inna\_Minnit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inna_Minnit)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/28 "2014-04-15T03:17:58Z")
In the topic with that Freak Freely dude, someone named “Serlin” was mentioned. What’s the story there. I tried to search with no luck. ---
**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 15, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/29 "2014-04-15T04:18:13Z")
There was another poster that seemed to be seriously messed up. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8921997&postcount=111](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8921997&postcount=111) There are a couple more posts in that thread in the same style. The thread got closed because people were worried about the guy. Was he seriously in trouble, or seriously pulling everyone’s leg? Can we even know? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/30 "2014-04-15T04:26:56Z")
We had two posters who claimed someone was listening to them through the walls. One guy thought someone was actually listening to him breath. > [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > 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. I think she was just shitfaced that time, rather than bonkers. (IIRC, **TechChick** had a drinking problem) ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/31 "2014-04-15T04:33:38Z")
Vahid Tarzan was a brief member here and he was always going on about “The Fuzz” and how the universe was going to end, and he also hated gay people and other wacky stuff. Don’t forget the time Marley went crazy and banned everyone. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/32 "2014-04-15T05:50:52Z")
If we ever had a member with DID (multiple personality disorder), would we be able to tell? Or would they get immediately banned for creating a sock? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/33 "2014-04-15T06:25:05Z")
It would be completely obvious. It would be quite difficult to ascertain. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/34 "2014-04-15T07:21:44Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Turns out I still have [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=711833) bookmarked. I’m still waiting and watching for Lucent Technologies to rise from the abyss and swallow all of our souls. JC has been rapping bout heaven and hell for more than two thousand years man! ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/35 "2014-04-15T08:04:15Z")
Here’s [one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=680023) from last year. 5 posts by the OP in a 115 post thread mercifully closed by **Ellen** , but man, what posts they were. \*My neighbor is a disgusting joke of a creature \*. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/36 "2014-04-15T08:40:46Z")
Just want to add that in post #6 of the thread I linked to, **SeaDragonTatoo** links to _another_ thread from someone else convinced their upstairs neighbor was “a peeping tom (listener)”. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/37 "2014-04-15T08:45:23Z")
Wasn’t there a poster who thought he was a set of curtains? But he finally pulled himself together. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/38 "2014-04-15T09:00:27Z")
Username DonDraper? ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/39 "2014-04-15T09:16:22Z")
I don’t know about insane, but **handy** sure went off the rails ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106/40 "2014-04-15T10:49:25Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Wasn’t there a poster who thought he was a set of curtains? But he finally pulled himself together. Did he? I don’t remember that. I thought he went blind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-sdmb-community-ever-witnessed-someone-go-insane/686106.md?page=3)