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AlleyCat is one of the several people who dominate Rudy on a daily basis, keeping their bootheels on his little pencil neck to 
the amusement of all.

Rudy's neuroses, also called psychoneurosis or plural psychoneuroses, mental disorder, causes a sense of distress and deficit in 
functioning.

Rudy's neuroses are characterized by anxiety, depression, or other feelings of unhappiness or distress that are out of proportion 
to the circumstances of a Rudy's life.

They may impair Rudy's functioning in virtually any area of his life, relationships, or external affairs, but they are not severe 
enough to incapacitate the person, hence his constant posting on Usenet.

Psychiatrists first used the term neurosis in the mid-19th century to categorize Rudy's symptoms, thought to be neurological in 
origin; the prefix "psycho-" was added some decades later when it became clear that mental and emotional factors were important 
in the etiology of his disorders.

An influential view held by the psychoanalytic tradition is that Rudy's neuroses arise from intrapsychic conflict (conflict 
between different drives, impulses, and motives held within various components of the mind).

Central to psychoanalytic theory, which was founded by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, is the postulated existence of an 
unconscious part of Rudy's mind which, among other functions, acts as a repository for repressed thoughts, feelings, and memories 
that are disturbing or otherwise unacceptable to the conscious mind.

Rudy's repressed mental contents are typically homo-sexually or aggressive urges or painful memories of an emotional loss or an 
unsatisfied longing dating from childhood.

Anxiety arises when Rudy's unacceptable and repressiveness drives threaten to enter consciousness; prompted by anxiety, the 
conscious part of the mind (the ego) tries to deflect the emergence into consciousness of the repressed mental contents through 
the use of defense mechanisms such as repression, denial, or reaction formation.

Neurotic symptoms often begin when a previously impermeable defense mechanism breaks down and a forbidden drive or impulse 
threatens to enter consciousness. 

(like when AlleyCat kicks his ass)

While the psychoanalytic theory has continued to be influential, another prominent view, associated with behavioral psychology, 
represents neurosis as a learned, inappropriate response to stress that can be unlearned. A third view, stemming from cognitive 
theory, emphasizes the way in which maladaptive thinking-such as the fear of possible punishment-promotes an inaccurate 
perception of the self and surrounding events.
Types

Obsessive-compulsive disorders are characterized by the irresistible entry of unwanted ideas, thoughts, or feelings into 
consciousness or by the need to repeatedly perform ritualistic actions that the sufferer perceives as unnecessary or unwarranted. 
Obsessive ideas may include recurrent violent or obscene thoughts; compulsive behaviour includes rituals such as repetitive hand 
washing or door locking. The drug clomipramine has proved effective in treating many patients with obsessive-compulsive 
disorders.

Somatoform disorders, which include the so-called hysterical, or conversion, neuroses, manifest themselves in physical symptoms, 
such as blindness, paralysis, or deafness that are not caused by organic disease. Hysteria was among the earliest syndromes to be 
understood and treated by psychoanalysts, who believe that such symptoms result from fixations or arrested stages in an 
individual's early psycho-sexual development.

In anxiety disorders, anxiety is the principal feature, manifesting itself either in relatively short, acute anxiety attacks or 
in a chronic sense of nameless dread. Persons undergoing anxiety attacks may suffer from digestive upsets, excessive 
perspiration, headaches, heart palpitations, restlessness, insomnia, disturbances in appetite, and impaired concentration. 
Phobia, a type of anxiety disorder, is represented by inappropriate fears that are triggered by specific situations or objects. 
Some common objects of phobias are open or closed spaces, fire, high places, dirt, and bacteria.

Depression, when neither excessively severe nor prolonged, is regarded as a neurosis. A depressed person feels sad, hopeless, and 
pessimistic and may be listless, easily fatigued, slow in thought and action, and have a reduced appetite and difficulty in 
sleeping.

Post-traumatic stress disorder is a syndrome appearing in people who have endured some highly traumatic event, such as a natural 
disaster, torture, or incarceration in a concentration camp. The symptoms include nightmares, a diffuse anxiety, and guilt over 
having survived when others perished. Depersonalization disorder consists of the experiencing of the world or oneself as strange, 
altered, unreal, or mechanical in quality.