13 SciFi Mental Illnesses
If you feel that you suffer from any of these, please consult your local psychiatrist.
1. Sliderepsy - A common chronic neurological disorder that is characterized by recurrent unprovoked interdimensional travel.
2. Holomania - An obsessive-compulsive disorder involving an addiction to the holodeck where social relations or health are damaged.
3. Beamaholic - A person who is addicted to getting their molecules rearranged.
4. Warpirium - An acute and relatively sudden decline in attention-focus, perception, and cognition when traveling faster than the speed of light.
5. Vacuuphobia - A fear of being sucked into the vacuum of space.
6. Forcebitionist - The psychological need and pattern of behavior of trying to move objects by mind control. Also has an uncontrollable penchant for waving around lightsabers.
7. Nanopresis - Involuntary loss of certain motor abilities due to dependence on nanites.
8. Folie àclone - A rare psychiatric syndrome in which a symptom of psychosis (particularly a paranoid or delusional belief) is transmitted from one individual to his or her clone.
9. Echowookalia - The repetition of Wookiee vocalizations made by another person.
10. Mutantisphobia - A fear of developing super human abilities and/or abnormal characterstics (such as growing an extra limb or the epidermis altering to a blue hue).
11. Goa’uldthropy - A mental disorder where the victim believes he or she is a god and/or infected with a mind-controlling parasite.
12. Orionatic - An person obsessed with green aliens to the point of imitation. (Also a person who regularly paints their skin green and dresses as an Orion slave.)
13. Redshirtitis - An almost always fatal disease. The patient can die in any number of ways and usually on away missions.









October 4th, 2007 at 7:02 am
[...] 13 scifi mental illnesses. I think I suffer from vacuuphobia. I’m not the only one… am I? (SciFiChick.com) [...]
October 4th, 2007 at 7:53 am
Bless you for telling me about these fatal diseases! You must come impart this knowledge at our meeting on Friday.
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October 4th, 2007 at 8:05 am
Thanks, Gabriella.. will do!
October 4th, 2007 at 8:47 am
ROFL!! These are awesome! I definately have Forcebitionist and I hope I never suffer from Redshirtitis. Fantastic list.
October 4th, 2007 at 9:10 am
This one is too funny. Vacuuphobia sounds like a real fear to me!
October 4th, 2007 at 9:16 am
I’m going to have to bookmark this post–it’s a valuable reference tool when you live in a household of sf/f fans.
Still cracking up–these are priceless!
October 4th, 2007 at 9:27 am
HAHAHA!!! Love this T13!
October 4th, 2007 at 9:41 am
Hehe! Awesome. I think I’d have trouble with #5 if I lived on a spaceship or space station. But if I ever catch #13, just shoot me! It’s probably better than the alternative…
October 4th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Echowookalia. Yup. I can’t help it!
October 4th, 2007 at 10:24 am
I love redshirtitis!
Happy TT!
October 4th, 2007 at 10:43 am
Great list. My son and I suffer from 6. I hope I never experience 12.
October 4th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Oh… this is great. So Great! LOL! Love the last one. So true, so true.
October 4th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
*giggling uncontrolibly, can’t type*
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October 4th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Forcebitionist — especially when the dog wants out and I’m ensconced with my laptop. These are great!
October 4th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
This had me laughing away. How about ‘Gateaphobia’…the fear of being sucked from planet to planet via a wormhole?…or is that close to #5?
Definately in my ‘Quality Post’ list.
October 4th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
ROFL!!! Many have succumbed to #13, we need to pray for those suckers! LOL! Awesome list!
October 4th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
*chuckle* - good ones, Angela - have a look here for what I wrote about #2 and #13 a few days ago.
October 4th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
What about “robophobia” from Dr. Who. You subconsciously imitate the body language of robots, who don’t have any. This, of course, turns you into a psychopathic killer.
October 4th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
This is pure gold! I do have a problem with being a Forcebitionist - or is it that, when I put out my hand and stare intensely at an object, my husband simply takes pity and passes it over to me…?
November 2nd, 2007 at 5:45 pm
These are great! I am pretty sure that I suffer from one or more of these horrible afflictions.