What mental illness does Orly Taitz have?

[GodlyDemocrat]

Seriously, for those of you who have studied mental health or are in that profession, what is wrong with her?

She is delusional, a failure at life in spite of many different forays in different fields as a lawyer, dentist, and real estate agent, is unable or unwilling to accept reality, and just batshit crazy.

[11 Bravo]

1. I believe the clinical term is "fucked in the head".

[Rude Dog]

19. So then she was...

...born with a dick in her brain?

[BlooInBloo]

2. Some people are just mean, stupid, and bigoted. No need to invent illnesses for them.

[mysuzuki2]

3. All of them

[Lucy Goosey]

4. Something that causes her to be an unapologetic attention whore

or maybe she's just a really, really bad person.

[frogmarch]

5. She has delusions of grandeur.

And she is an attention whore.

I don't know what specific mental illnesses those would apply to.

[REP]

6. "Stupid fuck" is not a mental disorder.

[baldguy]

26. +1

[SeattleVet]

7. Delusions of Adequacy nt

[unapatriciated]

8. Megalomania

Megalomania is an unrealistic belief in one's superiority, grandiose abilities, and even omnipotence. It is characterized by a need for total power and control over others, and is marked by a lack of empathy for anything that is perceived as not feeding the self.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-megalomania.htm

[kestrel91316]

9. She's a megalomaniac suffering from delusions of grandeur,

has a persecution complex, and is extremely paranoid.

JMHO as someone with years of personal experience with a mentally ill family member.

[cliffordu]

10. Tertiary syphillis

[Critters2]

33. !

:spray:

[truedelphi]

46. LOL

I think you provided my biggest and longest laugh for the week! And it is only Sunday.

[cliffordu]

49. Well....

"Thankyouverymuch...."


(in my best Elvis voice.....)

[cloudbase]

11. The proper medical term is

loose screw.

[Warpy]

12. She came close to being a poster child for immigrant success

having worked to learn English, get a (questionable) law degree, pass a state bar, and gain a client base.

Alas, that client base was a bunch of wackjobs that still think Communists are living under their beds and now there's even one in the White House and it's not even a white one, egads!

People from her general part of the world have a tendency toward theatrics, remember Oksana Baiyul? I'm not sure I'd medicalize her or go beyond saying that perhaps her law studies weren't sufficient to the job she's trying to do and that she needed to keep reading, or that perhaps she's not really capable of learning how to do it, at all.

However, incompetence is not a mental illness, nor is being wrong about how the world works. The dramatics are likely cultural.

It's just a pity she is surrounded by people who likely are certifiable and that no one is capable of giving her the reality check she so desperately needs.

[madamesilverspurs]

13. goptoolism

[Ian David]

14. Even the people who agree with her MUST KNOW she's completely fucking nuts. n/t

[NutmegYankee]

15. Go look in the September 11 Forum.

Conspiracy theorist.

[muntrv]

16. It's called shit for brains.

[Rude Dog]

17. Birferism.

On another note, I'm sick of people immediately jumping to "mental illness" as a defense for GOPpers who do stupid things. That dumbfuck who carved the backwards B in her face? Whyen she admitted she was a lying sack of hogshit, it didn't take a day before a lot of supposed-liberals were all over snapping at people for criticizing her. Why? "WELL SHE'S OBVUSLY MENTALLY ILL HURRRRRRRR".

This is just wrong. Just because someone's plainly stupid and brainwashed is no reason to lump them in with people who have actual mental illnesses.

[Confusious]

30. Can't she just be stupid?

[Odin2005]

18. Bipolar, in a manic phase.

I kinda feel sorry for her because it's all gonna come crashing down and she is going to regret what she did.

[Forkboy]

27. This is a hell of a long manic phase.

Mine usually last a week or two. :)

[Posteritatis]

35. They can last for months in some people (nt)

[Forkboy]

48. Oh, I know.

I was lowballing it for the gag. :D

[TexasObserver]

20. A few cards short of a deck, a few bricks short of a load, missing a few marbles ...

... not all there, not the sharpest tool in the shed ....


She's missing something.

[gopiscrap]

32. two sandwiches short of a picnic....

elevator doesn't go to the top floor, when god handed out brains, she thought it was trains....

[rbrnmw]

34. a few cards short hell

she is missing everything but the jokers

[LuckyLib]

38. The porch light's on, but nobody's home.

In this case the light itself is very, very dim.

[grytpype]

21. Crazy like a fox, she's getting a lot of fame out if this.

She's made her career on the wingnut speaking circuit.

[rocktivity]

22. She's...

rocktivity

[Historic NY]

25. got my vote.

[subcomhd]

23. paranoid schizophrenia and narcissistic personality disorder

are the closest things to her I have encountered.

[Hepburn]

24. OCD....

...that at a minimum IMO.

Edit to add this pic of Orly:

[Confusious]

29. NOPE

I have OCD. No OCD there.

[SoxFan]

28. Stop it

A lot of DUers have experienced mental illness in their own lives. I've fought a battle with depression for some time now, and my wife works with the mentally ill in her job wth the NH Department of Health and Human Services. The last thing that people experiencing mental health problems need is a bunch of uninformed speculation by untrained amateurs.

If this thread were discussing the diagnosis of a neurological, cardiovascular, or orthopedic problem, it would be shut down as inappropriate. The same standard should apply to mental health conditions.

[Posteritatis]

36. This is one of the only replies in this thread with any worth

I was going to post to say something similar and slightly less diplomatic, so I'm glad you beat me to it. ;)

DUers' "mental illnesses are intrinsically conservative and vice versa" meme is more than a little aggravating. It's not quite as bad as those few idiots who just don't believe in mental illness at all, but most people discussing the concept here are stuck decades in the past in their understanding of it.

[Maru Kitteh]

43. +2 Thank you. n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

31. hemmorhagic sphincteritis

[trueblue2007]

37. RETARD

[Maru Kitteh]

41. That was a grotesquely insensitive thing for you to post. n/t

[armyowalgreens]

42. Agreed.

In fact I'm considering retracting my original post in here.

She isn't mentally ill. And even if she was, mental illness is not a funny thing. It's a fucking nightmare.

[Maru Kitteh]

44. Yes, it is a nightmare. My sister recently suffered a sudden-onset psychotic break. She was in hell

in her own body with her own mind turning against her. It was the most frightening God Damned thing I have ever seen in my life. She was gone. Her eyes didn't even look human. She thought we were on the Titanic, ripped her IV's out, she thought I was in Jr. High but she also thought I had been married since 1979. (I was married in 92) It went on that way for days.

I thought I would never see my sister again even though her body was right in front of me. Lucky for us, she came back, and she's doing better now, but now this illness is a permanent part of our lives.

I detest it when people think that they can diagnose some other human being's illness based on what they've pieced together from Wikipedia, "Dr." Phil, and a couple of Oprah shows.

Internet diagnoses are worth less than the pixels they are printed on.

[armyowalgreens]

45. ...

I've been suffering from symptoms of schizophrenia and depression for the last 18 months. And I have not gone to the doctor yet. I've been trying to self-diagnose/cure. It hasn't been working.

I never really understood how distorted reality could seem. I don't think people understand if they haven't experienced it. And I'd never wish this on my greatest enemies.

It just seems very ignorant to make light of mental illness. It is hell in the most literal form that I can conceive.

[armyowalgreens]

39. .

I just realized how inappropriate this thread is.

[Maru Kitteh]

40. Some people are just natural born assholes. Being a jerk doesn't necessarily make you

diagnosable.

[go west young man]

47. If you go to her website you will see advertising for hard right groups that

want to hang onto illegal Israeli settlements. It's just a guess by I theorize that's why she wants Obama removed from office. She's a religious fanatic in disguise I believe.