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Subject: Re: [OM] Somebody take this computer away from me....Probably OT....a little ...
From: Doggre@xxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:02:38 EST
In a message dated 3/28/01 6:59:04 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
sfsttj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

>snip<

> well-honed sickness
> truly obsessive 

>snip<

>sin<

Hmmm.  Maybe someday, under "Zuikoholic Syndrome" in the American Psychiatric 
Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV, there 
will be a photo of Tom.  A new category of mental illness?  Somewhere between 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Intermittent Explosive Disorder?

Symtoms:

Overwhelming preoccupation with, and desire to repetitively purchase anything 
Olympus (specifically items from the OM system), despite resulting financial 
chaos and loss of social and emotional bonds.

Total social and emotional withdrawal, unless interaction is related to 
Olympus cameras, accessories, and their use, or patient is collaborating with 
others likewise afflicted.

This disturbance causes clinically significant impairment in social, 
occupational, or other areas of important functioning.

No clinically proven treatment methodologies for Zuikoholic Syndrome exist at 
the present time.  Prognosis is predictably poor.  Alternate treatment 
regimens of ritalin and rum seem to suppress symptoms somewhat, allowing 
patient to function marginally for brief periods of time.  Disorder is 
inevitably terminal, however, following a short period of dementia.

Etc.

Rich

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