An Amateur Dissection of Nephthys Yamada

So over the past month, I have been looking a little further in to our favorite purple-loving cult leader. In all honesty, half the reason I went wrist deep in this shit pie is because I'm curious about cults and their leaders. And after looking in to him more, through things like his SE official forum posts, Discord interactions in his FC discord, other discords he's in, and some of the DM screenshots I've been so graciously sent, I think I have a decent amateur diagnosis for him.

Using the Mayo Clinic's list of personality disorders (https://mayocl.in/2Q5BD52) as a reference for behaviors we're looking for, we can begin to figure this mess of a man out. Of course, as everyone already guessed, Neph is most certainly Narcissistic. If we go to our reference, some of the key behaviors he has is his belief of being "better" and exaggeration of his skills (He does call himself a "Master" of many classes on his website after all. His parses suggest otherwise), a general air of arrogance, and a somewhat unreasonable expectation of favors and advantages (See "If you raid when we're doing FC things you can let the door hit you on the way out).

Now, while his narcissism his evident, I'd also say it's reasonable to assume he has a few other things layered in there. I also believe (using our reference) he has Paranoid personality disorder, which is not entirely uncommon in narcissists. From a conversation I've had personally man (which I'll try and get things together to post that soon, but it will be part of what will basically be a college thesis on DWA) as well as Discord and forum posts he often takes very innocent remarks as very deep insults, and his reactions are quite vitriolic. He also seems to refuse to just let go of what has happened since the initial Reddit post/drama, as seen in recent Discord conversations. While I won't say his current paranoia is unjustified, and it could all be simply attributed to that, there's no small chance he also has PPD.

Of course, there's more. I'd also say it's a reasonable guess to say he has Histrionic Personality Disorder. Neph seems to crave attention in many Discord conversations he's in, but also seems to say a lot of bullshit (often manipulative bullshit too) such as when he said that in Patch 5.2, Square added code that would detect third party programs running on one's PC (which is illegal in most countries, and would remove half the playerbase besides). Also going back to the personal conversation I've had with the man, his emotions do seem to be like a light switch. One moment he could be calm, and fairly pleasant (if not a bit hard to read, the amount of ellipses is very hard to get past sometimes) to very hostile and rude because of one slightly off comment. It was really like walking on eggshells. The final thing that leads me to believe he could have HPD is his very obscure speech patterns in all conversations. Trust me, I've looked in to it, the ellipses rarely ever stop. I honestly don't think it's RP.

This is what I've gleaned from what I've only really found in a month with minimal interactions with him. I do believe there could be a few other things, but I won't put those out there unless I have more substance to my claims. Again, I'm no psychologist or psychiatrist (though it is a field I am interested in) so all these should be taken with a grain of salt, but this is, after all, an amateur diagnosis.

Edit: Small grammatical errors.