Polymorphous misvertia

Polymorphous misvertia is a type of misvertic disorder that takes on the form of various other mental conditions such as depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia. It is a complicated condition with a wide variety of symptoms and tends to be mistaken for intense neurosis or psychosis.
==History of the concept==
The idea that one can "suffer from various mental disorders but [be] afflicted with only one actual illness" was first published by Ai in his treatise, On the Dynamics of Mental Disorders and Mental Illnesses. He wrote:
Psychiatrists tend to conflate mental disorders with mental illnesses, but there is a subtle, albeit significant, distinction. The distinction is that mental disorders are dysfunctions of the mind, instances in which some aspect or aspects of the mental construct is irresponsive or improperly responsive to the environment, whereas mental illnesses are the pathogenic entities, the essential causes of the dysfunction. Thus, some suffer from various mental disorders, but they are afflicted with only one actual illness.
Shas, who studied misvertia, theorized two manifestations, the blatant manifestation and the subtle manifestation. People with the subtle manifestation "present[ed] themselves as sane, psychically sound and healthy with no obvious signs of misvertia" or alternately, "appear[ed] to be afflicted with multiple mental disorders [such as] depression, anxiety, or some type of psychosis, but the common treatments [could] not help them". 
The term polymorphous misvertia was first used in A Record of Disorders and Diseases of the Mind, which stated that "[p]olymorphous misvertia is a complex and subtle disease, a kind of misvertia that in many ways differs from classic misvertia".
==Diagnostic criteria==
From the ARMPA: 
A person shall be said to be afflicted with polymorphous misvertia if:
A. he presents with subtle signs of misvertia, including that he:
# is apathetic, exhibits an extreme indifference in all or most essential or significant affairs
# is irrational, tends to make unreasonable decisions
# is oblivious to or inconsiderate of the feelings of other people
# is preoccupied with an idea to such an extent that it inhibits general functioning
B. he appears to be afflicted with another mental illness, but his reactions to treatments are not suggestive of said illness
C. such symptoms are severely detrimental to occupational and social functioning or personal health and well-being.
== People with polymorphous misvertia ==
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