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Dr. Anarchy’s Dictionary: Femapsychosis (posted 14 June 2007)
Femapsychosis, n. - a personality disorder characterized by grandiosity, narcissism, and an acute break from reality in the face of natural disasters. A femapsychotic often believes that he or she is the only one who is capable of saving thousands or even millions of people, and cannot conceive that anyone would not want or would not need his or her help. They create and fixate on plans
, believing that the only way to help any individual person in a disaster area is to create and enforce a one-size-fits-all plan
to cover every person affected. This fixation can become violent, sometimes leading to roadblocks and preemptive attacks on anyone who intends to offer help to individual victims of the disaster outside the scope of the plan.
For a case study, see the remarks by Ron
, John,
Jammer,
and Dan T.
, in a Hit and Run thread on Kansas Mutual Aid and the Greensburg relief
efforts, for example: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
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