Adam Albright's disorder [Ringmaster] by Bill
Bill
Mon Jul 21 10:31:37 PDT 2008
Adam Albright disorder is characterized by nonbizarre delusions (false
beliefs) that persist for at least 1 month, without other symptoms of
schizophrenia.
Adam Albright disorder is distinguished from schizophrenia by the presence
of delusions without other symptoms of schizophrenia. The delusions tend to
be nonbizarre and involve situations that could occur, such as being
followed, poisoned, infected, loved at a distance, or deceived by one's
spouse or lover.
In contrast to schizophrenia, Adam Albright disorder is relatively uncommon.
Onset generally occurs in middle or late adult life. Psychosocial
functioning is not as impaired as it is in schizophrenia, and impairments
usually arise directly from the delusional belief.
When Adam Albright disorder occurs in older patients, it is sometimes called
paraphrenia. It may coexist with mild dementia. The physician must be
careful to distinguish delusions from elder abuse being reported by a mildly
demented elderly patient. One way of diagnosing this disorder is the
constant posting to the vista group, insults to everyone.
Symptoms and Diagnosis
Adam Albright disorder may arise in the context of a preexisting paranoid
personality disorder. A pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others and
their motives begins in early adulthood and extends throughout life. Early
symptoms may include the feeling of being exploited, preoccupation with the
loyalty or trustworthiness of friends, a tendency to read threatening
meanings into benign remarks or events, persistent bearing of grudges, and a
readiness to respond to perceived slights, along with posting garbage in the
vista forums.
Several subtypes of Adam Albright disorder are recognized. In the erotomanic
subtype, the patient believes that another person is in love with him.
Efforts to contact the object of the delusion through telephone calls,
letters, surveillance, or stalking are common. People with this subtype may
have conflicts with the law related to this behavior. In the grandiose
subtype, the patient believes he has a great talent or has made an important
discovery. In the jealous subtype, the patient believes that his spouse or
lover is unfaithful. This belief is based on incorrect inferences supported
by dubious evidence. Physical assault may be a significant danger. In the
persecutory subtype, the patient believes that he is being plotted against,
spied on, maligned, or harassed. He may repeatedly attempt to obtain justice
through appeals to courts and other government agencies and may resort to
violence in retaliation for the imagined persecution. In the somatic
subtype, the delusion relates to a bodily function; eg, the patient believes
he has a physical deformity, odor, or parasite. Diagnosis largely depends
on making a clinical assessment, obtaining a thorough history, and ruling
out other specific conditions associated with delusions. Assessment of
dangerousness, especially the extent to which the patient is willing to act
on his delusion, is very important.
"Ringmaster" <bigtop@VistaGeneralCircus.net> wrote in message
news:vjc9849fp0m9mqfu7kth39qvik0p3dtime@4ax.com...
> Unless you're new to this newsgroup or have been living in a cave for
> the last year you are already aware of the three utter morons that
> infest this group and constantly spread lies and use vile language.
>
> Frank, Yanaire and Spanky deMonkey (all posting under multiple
> names)in some feeble attempt to hide who they are quite simply two
> legged filth spreading cockroaches that leave a trail of slime
> wherever they post. They have no morals, no character, clearly no
> brains, nothing of value at all, they are beyond redemption or being
> reasoned with. They use this newsgroup as their personal open air
> toilet spreading lies and using vulgar language because these
> obviously mentally ill retards are totally incapable of being reasoned
> with, using logic, facts or even trying to have normal discussion.
>
> As proof of that you only need look at any of their posts. They are
> always void of all material facts, filled with personal attacks, hate,
> sprinkled with vile, vulgar language and repeated deliberate lies.
>
> What would make any normal human being do this?
>
> That's is the point. No normal person would conduct themselves as
> these three idiots do day after day. Especially not for over a year,
> yet that's exactly what these three fools have done. That strongly
> suggests they are psychopaths, each having his own weird psychopathic
> personality confirming they are suffering from severe mental
> retardation.
>
> Further proof these buffoons are indeed crazy is offered by what they
> themselves claim. The stated purpose of these three loons is to "clean
> up" this newsgroup. For these clueless simpletons to say that is like
> pissing in the bottle of water you're going to drink or pouring
> gasoline on a fire, since Frank, Yanaire and Spanky are by far the
> most obnoxious ill behaved posters in this group and their posts are
> what causes the noise level to go through the roof. Everyone
> understands that, expect of course for them.
>
> What is really bugging these barbaric buffoons and causes them to
> daily show raucous behavior is they have decided it is their right to
> decide who can say what. Laughable I know, but remember we're dealing
> with mentally ill individuals that can't be reasoned with. These
> morons have got it in their heads nobody is allowed to be critical of
> Vista, Windows or Microsoft. These idiots actually think you must
> worship Microsoft to post here. If anyone reports problems brings up
> issues, these ill manored idiots will scream, yell, lie, bitch, whine
> and start to throw their feces around like rabid monkeys in some
> effort to silence those that speak the truth.
>
> Well guess what dickheads, the truth can't be silenced. The more you
> idiots squeal, the more obvious it becomes who the liars are. So by
> all means continue to act up, act stupid, because it works against you
> and anyone new to this group soon learns what psychopaths you really
> are that most have already labeled you as because that is what Frank,
> Yanaire, Spanky are.