Mental Illnesses

Doggie Mental Illnesses
In Doggietopia, a very small amount of Doggies are born with mental illnesses. It is unknown what percentage of all Doggies have mental illnesses, but there is a certain rarity for them all. They are always abbreviations ending in D.

When a Doggie is born, the doctor that helped with their birth uses a special machine to check for any mental disorders. If there is, the doctor calmly informs the parents of the disorder the Doggie has, and gives the parents advice on what to do about it.

List of them all:
EED: EED stands for Empty Emotion Disorder. Every 1 in 800 Doggies is born with this. At first, a Doggie with EED feels barely any emotions, except emptiness. They will start to feel emotion at the age of 8, and very gradually feel more emotional as they grow up. When they are 16 they stop gradually feeling more emotive, and will be 50% emotional and 50% empty.

SED: SED stands for Strong Emotion Disorder. Every 1 in 750 Doggies is born with this. A Doggie with SED feels emotions very strongly. They also get very odd dreams. Most of the time, Doggies with SED only dream about blankness and strange black visions of some things they saw that day. As they grow up, they will calm down gradually, but not completely, as at some point they will stop and be left 50% strongly emotional and 50% normal.

CSD: CSD stands for Communication Struggle Disorder. Every 1 in 550 Doggies is born with this. A Doggie with CSD finds it difficult to pay attention when others are speaking, and they aren't good at looking others in the eye when speaking to them. They also tend to look around when they are speaking to others. Not all Doggies with this disorder are shy, most are surprisingly confident, but they all go into panic attacks when they feel pressured. They find it easier if you approach them gently and don't pressure them too hard.

RFD: RFD stands for Random Fear Disorder. Every 1 in 820 Doggies is born with this. A Doggie with RFD is afraid of random things, apart from things like eating, sleeping, breathing and blinking. However, 99% of the time they have made up what they're scared about. For example, a Doggie with RFD may be scared of cameras because they think that aliens use them to spy on them. For some of their fears, exposure therapy works, but not all of them.

MLD: MLD stands for Memory Loss Disorder. Every 1 in 790 Doggies is born with this. A Doggie with MLD will forget things at random, apart from their family, friends, meanings of Level 3+ words or their ability to do basic things like speaking or walking. A few examples of things that they may forget are their birthday, why they need to sleep at night or how to hula hoop.