Thoughts about DSP's Psychology - Dr Fred Freud's Office

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I've known people like DSP. He's an empty, incurious retard. Until his life became completely absorbed by "content" all his hobbies were borrowed from those around him.

He tried "getting into weightlifting" because iirc his dormmate did it. This is the same period where he became a party animal and almost got stabbed for stealing some guy's bitch blah blah. He stole a lot from this dormroom guy.

Never mind that in the photo timeline we go from skinny pre-college arcadefag Phil to fat gamerbro bad back Phil with no inbetween. Never mind that anybody who lifts weights will have photos of their progress.

My personal headcanon is that Phil's dormmate, who was probably fit, tried to convince his fat ass to get in shape, and due to embarrassment and peer pressure Phil spent one or two weeks trying to lift weights and drink protein shakes, but gave up because he's a fat lazy retard.

Skip to years later and he's bragging about being a former weightlifter.
 
Besides being a known narcissist, he does have the hindsight that he is honestly a boring person, however, he wanted to try to come off as "interesting". I remember Phil said that when he first joined the FGC, he felt like he "belonged", before everyone found out that he's a major piece of crap with all of his smack talk and him cowering over when people wanted to test his gangsta. The reason for that is because it's a form of tribalism - for example, if you love working out, you're going to run into other people that love working out, you love certain bands, you wear that bands t-shirts and you run into public to someone that loves that same band, you banter about your favorite songs, albums, etc. You strike up a friendship that way and eventually you surround yourself with people based off that same interest...Steve of the Dead made a good point about how him and his elderly neighbor are both huge fans of Deception, which shocked Steve has he told his neighbor that he would never in a million years "take him as a Deception fan" because he thought that he didn't look like the typical black metal fan.

Phil tried to get into weightlighting, because his father was a former Marine and he wanted to stay in good shape, but he didn't like lifting heavy, but he wanted to brag like he did. If you were to ask Phil what his PR was on squats, he would probably tell you "Oh, I don't know...." *Snort* "Probably 400." Sure, Dave. He tried to smoke weed, but he "didn't like it", which is cool. I get it, it's not for everyone, but I still roll my eyes when that $4.20 tip. I digress.

Phil wants to come off interesting, but the dude is a square. There's nothing wrong with being a square - if you are, cool. Own that shit. However, Phil honestly thinks that being Mr. Steal Yo Girl, living the life of a party animal in college, running from cops, etc...honestly, Phil has to lie to kick it. He fears that if he lets his true self come out, people won't like him. No, Phil. People don't like you because you're a petty piece of shit, along with a massive liar and asshole for no reason other than to be hateful. Dude is a real life Silky Johnson!

He wants to come off "interesting", but let's be fair: he's lazy and doesn't want to do anything but beg and play WWE Champions. If that's what you wanna do, awesome! Own it, don't run from it.
 
I remember Phil said that when he first joined the FGC, he felt like he "belonged", before everyone found out that he's a major piece of crap with all of his smack talk and him cowering over when people wanted to test his gangsta. The reason for that is because it's a form of tribalism
Also, it's a community unique for allowing losers to act hard.

You can talk maaad shit to people because 99% of the time you only have to back it up in the game. It's perfect for DSP. Well it was until it got too real for him. He's the textbook definition of a keyboard warrior.

But the FGC's appeal for someone who talks shit way above their ability to back it up IRL is pretty obvious.

Problem with tribes however is, since everybody's differences are minimal, the asshole stands out like a sore (Silvanio) thumb.
 
A few pages ago somebody mentioned that Phil might have a Cluster C personality disorder in addition to/in lieu of a Type B disorder (note that pop-psych favorites including antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic personality disorders are all Cluster B). I have nothing better to do I'm going to see if he fits the bill for those as well as Cluster A; I'm not a psychologist so I can't tell you if there used to be a Cluster D, E, etc. but they don't exist in the current DSM based on the website I found.

These diagnostic criteria come from the Mayo Clinic.

Paranoid personality disorder​

  • Pervasive distrust and suspicion of others and their motives
  • Unjustified belief that others are trying to harm or deceive you
  • Unjustified suspicion of the loyalty or trustworthiness of others
  • Hesitancy to confide in others due to unreasonable fear that others will use the information against you
  • Perception of innocent remarks or nonthreatening situations as personal insults or attacks
  • Angry or hostile reaction to perceived slights or insults
Yes. Phil has believed for years that anything short of adulation is an insult and that troll hit squads could be in his chat/forums/the shops he goes to on the Designated Day Off. In more recent times he has decided that constant monitoring of his Doordash orders is not only normal and well adjusted but prudent because otherwise his food might get stolen or diverted.
  • Tendency to hold grudges
Yes absolutely. Based on the ProJared divorce/leaked nudes Phil has a perfect memory for people wronging him and loves being able to get back at them.
  • Unjustified, recurrent suspicion that spouse or sexual partner is unfaithful
I don't see it, most of his mentions of Kat involve her botching food or being unhappy at her job. That being said Phil has little/no sexual interest, at least in women, so it's difficult to tell the difference between having absolute confidence Kat is faithful vs. not caring because he wasn't going to sleep with her regardless.

Schizoid personality disorder​

  • Lack of interest in social or personal relationships, preferring to be alone
  • Limited range of emotional expression
  • Inability to take pleasure in most activities
  • Inability to pick up normal social cues
  • Appearance of being cold or indifferent to others
  • Little or no interest in having sex with another person
Yes to all of these but Wikipedia notes that " it can be very difficult to distinguish SzPD from other mental disorders or conditions (such as autism spectrum disorder , with which it may sometimes overlap)" so this could just be Phil having autism.

Schizotypal personality disorder​

  • Peculiar dress, thinking, beliefs, speech or behavior
Yes but this can all be explained by Phil being a hermit whose socialization is mostly in hugboxes, not paranoia that some outside group (CIA/FBI/Kiwi Farms) will get him unless he follows those weird habits.
  • Odd perceptual experiences, such as hearing a voice whisper your name
Not that I am aware of.
  • Flat emotions or inappropriate emotional responses
No. I think inappropriate here means totally unrelated to what is happening, not just behaving like a spoiled five-year-old.
  • Social anxiety and a lack of or discomfort with close relationships
Yes. By all accounts he is awkward and timid in public, he was cold and uninterested towards Panda, and his marriage to Kat is a roommate situation.
  • Indifferent, inappropriate or suspicious response to others
Yes, I am pretty sure he still literally believes the trolls have secret agents on every corner.
  • "Magical thinking" — believing you can influence people and events with your thoughts
He used to, but not as much anymore. I still remember his idiotic mantra that if he wouldn't get stressed out anymore because if he stayed pahsitive things would work themselves out.

Arrested Development narrator: They didn't.
  • Belief that certain casual incidents or events have hidden messages meant only for you
It's a real stretch. Phil attached special meaning to a fortune cookie saying "your financial troubles will soon be at an end" and thought Kat getting the same urgent care doctor as him was some sign everything was going to be ok. He's reading meaning into random happenstance but these messages aren't really hidden and taking fortune cookies seriously isn't that out there. So far as we know he doesn't believe any of this was a coded message.

Avoidant personality disorder​

  • Too sensitive to criticism or rejection
Yes. Phil doesn't even take mild, very constructive criticism well and he came up with an absolutely loopy conspiracy theory to explain what John and Howard said in the "Rambo Retort".
  • Feeling inadequate, inferior or unattractive
Yes. I'll admit this could fit vulnerable narcissism just as well but it's clear that Phil's bragging and grandiosity is to cover up his own insecurities.
  • Avoidance of work activities that require interpersonal contact
Yes. He screwed himself out of thousands, probably tens of thousands, in costs on the Connectikhando because the property management company he reached out to insisted on talking via phone call instead of email.
  • Socially inhibited, timid and isolated, avoiding new activities or meeting strangers
Yes. Between the leaked Discord messages and what he's said on YT + Twitter he has barely talked to his neighbors in the ~nine years since he moved to Renton and has not made a single IRL friend since he met John and Howard.
  • Extreme shyness in social situations and personal relationships
Probably, anecdotally he is very timid and awkward IRL but we have little hard proof because he gets out so little.
  • Fear of disapproval, embarrassment or ridicule
There should not be a debate here. Phil has created a whole online ecosystem to protect his ego.

Dependent Personality Disorder
  • Excessive dependence on others and feeling the need to be taken care of
  • Submissive or clingy behavior toward others
Submissive yes, clingy maybe. At this point I'm pretty sure he would let Kat get away with murder if he thought that would keep her from leaving. Based on his description of their relationship it's definitely a roommate situation, if some of his anecdotes of himself + Kat are true (like that weird story about how he told her he liked looking at her and having her around) he's trying to be affectionate but it comes across to me as creepy/clingy.
  • Fear of having to provide self-care or fend for yourself if left alone
Yes with a huge "but" - based on how he lived in Connecticut and during the Single Saga he can't even do basic things like home maintenance or laundry. At least to me any fear he has of having to fend for himself is legitimate because he can't do it.
  • Lack of self-confidence, requiring excessive advice and reassurance from others to make even small decisions
No. When he asks for advice it's either to create the illusion of consensus/listening or because he's too lazy to think of a solution himself (Simpsons "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" meme goes here).
  • Difficulty starting or doing projects on your own due to lack of self-confidence
No. Phil has trouble starting new projects due to laziness but when he does start something he thinks it'll be amazing. Just look at DSP Reacts, it was a rebrand of his old vlog channel .
  • Difficulty disagreeing with others, fearing disapproval
On his streams no, IRL kind of. Phil is king and tyrant on his streams/forum/Twitter feed but he is supposedly meek and timid in person. The reason I say "kind of" is that I can't tell whether he fears disapproval or just conflict in general.
  • Tolerance of poor or abusive treatment, even when other options are available
I don't see it, even if his claims about Kat being jealous/insecure of him cheating were true that doesn't cross the line into poor and abusive in my opinion. He does tolerate shit from his whales but that's not abusive towards him and he does not really have another option unless he wants to get a real job.
  • Urgent need to start a new relationship when a close one has ended
Yes but again, Phil really is incapable of functioning on his own and much of his ego is tied up in being a Successful Mature Adult. You don't need Dependent Personality Disorder to explain this.

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder​

  • Preoccupation with details, orderliness and rules
  • Extreme perfectionism, resulting in dysfunction and distress when perfection is not achieved, such as feeling unable to finish a project because you don't meet your own strict standards
Lol no to both of these. Phil puts minimal effort into his streams and his only metric/standard for success is getting money.
  • Desire to be in control of people, tasks and situations, and inability to delegate tasks
Yes. He runs his forum and chat like North Korea and only delegates simple tasks he can easily take back if the mod doing them gets out of line.
  • Neglect of friends and enjoyable activities because of excessive commitment to work or a project
No, he neglects these because he is a lazy hermit.
  • Inability to discard broken or worthless objects
Sort of. He has all those FGC action figures + videogame collectibles lying around the Snort Fort somewhere but he still attaches value to them (sentimental for the action figures, financial for the other collectibles - if memory serves he tried to sell those on eBay but gave up because nobody was willing to pay the asking price).
  • Rigid and stubborn
So long as money isn't on the line, yes. If the trolls began saying the earth is round Phil would happily join the Flat Earth Society.
  • Inflexible about morality, ethics or values
Nope, when money is involved Phil will forget any values he claims to have.
  • Tight, miserly control over budgeting and spending money
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no. If Phil has money to burn he will spend it on gacha or things he doesn't need off Amazon.
 
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A few pages ago somebody mentioned that Phil might have a Cluster C personality disorder in addition to/in lieu of a Type B disorder (note that pop-psych favorites including antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic personality disorders are all Cluster B). I have nothing better to do I'm going to see if he fits the bill for those as well as Cluster A; I'm not a psychologist so I can't tell you if there used to be a Cluster D, E, etc. but they don't exist in the current DSM based on the website I found.
Phail is not schizoid, he's just autistic. One of the big tells if someone is schizoid is if they don't care about what society thinks of them and don't respond to criticism or praise, like at all. It's not really possible to have a schizoid narcissist because of that. Phail has mini mental breakdowns whenever he is criticized too much, doesn't get the praise he thinks he is owed and copes on the daily that he's not one of the big dogs on Youtube anymore. He also cares way too much about what 'tractors think of him.

Personally I think that he's paranoid for sure and also avoidant.
 
Phil isn't autistic. Autists can't pull the sleazy lawyer scumbag talk that Phil does naturally.

I think Phil was just your standard narcissist until he won the lottery spamming Youtube videos at the right time.

Once his "career" became fully online and eventually became a lolcow, that's when who knows how many mental co-morbities arose. It can't be stated how unhealthy his situation has been for about a decade now. Phil has isolated himself from the world except for a strange woman he effectively betabuxes to be his wife. Plays video games all day which he hates doing to an audience he hates, and is the butt of jokes 24/7 from 100x more people than who actually watch his shit.

Anyone who lives like Phil has for the past decade would become completely detached from the world and a paranoid whackadoodle.
 
Phil isn't autistic. Autists can't pull the sleazy lawyer scumbag talk that Phil does naturally.
Phil is a narcissist who is also autistic. Same as Chris Chan. His self soothing rocking back and forth, his obsession with routine, his habit of taking sarcasm and phrases like "rainy day fund" at face value, his very strange tics (throat clearing, snorts, rocking), his complete and utter lack of social skills, his lack of empathy for other people etc etc. These are all common autistic traits.

His sleazy lawyer talk is only convincing to his literal disabled audience. Phil could not be a car salesman or a lawyer because he comes off as a scumbag to anyone who isn't a denthead. Normal people come into Phil's stream and instantly know what he's doing.
 
I know this is an unpopular take, but I do pity Phil. To me pity is very different from sympathizing or empathizing with a person. Like I can sympathize with someone who's undergoing a difficult time that I haven't experienced and empathize with a person who's struggles I have.

Pity is saved for people like Phil. I pity Phil because I basically see a massive child, who doesn't want to stop being a child. His lifestyle reminds me of the movie Big. You transplant a kid into an adult's body and give him access to am adult's funds and what's he going to do? Eat junk food, buy every whim he has, and not consider the consequences of either action. Phil struck gold in 2008 and was raking in money, and instead of doing something smart with it - diversifying his income, investing in his buisness, investing in general - he decided the best play would be to burn it on temporary gratification first and foremost. Hell, he could have gone wild with the money and screwed himself, but at least have done some good for the people around him, like paying off his parents mortage and sending them on trips, buying cars for friends and family, shit like that but instead it was just wasted.

I pity him because his current situation is a result of years of his own selfishness and ignorance. He might have more money than I do, he might own a property while I don't, he might be married while I am not, but everyday we get a glimpse into how none of those things make him any less miserable. He's never spent any real time really considering what he wants from life, never sought to do the difficult things that actually make you happy by improving yourself, and for all his insistence of his maturity, his actions speak volumes. He's emotionally a child who doesn't want to grow up, take responsibility over his own life and happiness, or achieve anything more than he already has.

I pity Phil because all of things he has aren't that special: money itself is valueless if you're spending it on garbage, a property is meaningless if its just decaying and only serves as a way to keep everyone else out, and a marriage that is less about love and wanting to build a future and is instead purely transactional is just...depressing. I pity Phil because he's going to keep fucking his life up, trying to be happy while dodging the one thing that you need to live a happy life: fulfillment. You can't buy it, you can't scam it, you can't beg for it, and no one else is going to give it to you. You need to work for it, and Phil chooses not to work for anything.
 
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That faggot has enough self-pity to last a lifetime, trust me he doesn't need (or deserve) yours.
 
Phail is not schizoid, he's just autistic. One of the big tells if someone is schizoid is if they don't care about what society thinks of them and don't respond to criticism or praise, like at all. It's not really possible to have a schizoid narcissist because of that. Phail has mini mental breakdowns whenever he is criticized too much, doesn't get the praise he thinks he is owed and copes on the daily that he's not one of the big dogs on Youtube anymore. He also cares way too much about what 'tractors think of him.

Personally I think that he's paranoid for sure and also avoidant.

Phil is neither schizoid nor autistic.

He clearly cares deeply about what others think: Hence the extreme emphasis of being a mahture ahdult with a BUSINESS, and not you know… An overreaction to being a grown man playing games all day. (An activity associated with kids and young people.)

An autist would never have been able to land a (relatively!) high quality chick like Panda.

He clearly has social skills, even if he’s not good at them.

Any autismo behavior is most likely the result of avoidant behavior and being socially isolated and never leaving the house.
 
An autist would never have been able to land a (relatively!) high quality chick like Panda.
Phil was making incredible amounts of money when he met Panda. We are talking like 200k a year for two people. He was able to take her out to fancy dinners and bought her tons of shit. That made him desirable. Also "high quality"? With her nasty fucked up teeth and horrifically annoying personality? Go rewatch some of the videos of her. She had the voice of a nasally preteen boy.
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He clearly has social skills, even if he’s not good at them.
Did you watch the Stuttering Craig interview? He acts like an alien in social situations.
 
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Phil was making incredible amounts of money when he met Panda. We are talking like 200k a year for two people. He was able to take her out to fancy dinners and bought her tons of shit. That made him desirable. Also "high quality"? With her nasty fucked up teeth and horrifically annoying personality? Go rewatch some of the videos of her. She had the voice of a nasally preteen boy.
You missed the most important factor; she was his fucking fan. DSP has only ever been able to land bitches who were already drawn to his gameplay content for whatever ungodly reasons that only a therapist could figure out.

It's not like he dangled dollars in front of some golddigging sluts and scored. He just dates his fans.
 
You missed the most important factor; she was his fucking fan. DSP has only ever been able to land bitches who were already drawn to his gameplay content for whatever ungodly reasons that only a therapist could figure out.

It's not like he dangled dollars in front of some golddigging sluts and scored. He just dates his fans.

Meh, that’s true.

That’s also more laziness/circumstances than Phil being some sneaky master manipulator though.

In general you date the kind of chicks you have social access to. If you’re a regular churchgoer, chances are you find a gf in church. Go to college? Well, chances are your gf will be another college student.

Phil, who never goes out, and doesn’t meet people? Will start dating a fan, because it’s literally the only people he has any interactions with.

As for Panda and Khat, seems that people are sometimes so eager to Alog Phil that they ignore the fact that these women also used Phil to their own advantage.

Panda was an aimless young chick who got access to move across the country and start a new life. (And had access to the kind of money a 19 year old without an education could only dream about.)

Khat? She was an aimless product of the foster care system without any prospects or education and was looking for someone to take care of her.

Phil isn’t a groomer or some manipulative mastermind who find these basket case chicks to turn into waifus.

He’s a human train wreck who has enough cash (and clout) to attract other human train wrecks, desperate enough to make Phil look like a good deal.
 
I never said he was a sneaky master manipulator.

I know, it was more directed at the “Phil da groomer!” crowd.

Like with the whole “He moved Panda across the country to isolate her!”

Phil is a lot of things, but groomer always seemed a bit of a stretch.

Moving across the country for example, always seemed like something Panda at least inspired, if it wasn’t a mutual (retarded) idea.
 
Yet another case of Phil not realizng shit is faked in the Wings reACKt. Trolls splice Wings into robbery footage and DSP immediately goes something like "What this is illegal and slander. The news company that showed this should be sued. if this is fake"

I've never seen someone so retarded they can't figure out when shit is faked.
 
Yet another case of Phil not realizng shit is faked in the Wings reACKt. Trolls splice Wings into robbery footage and DSP immediately goes something like "What this is illegal and slander. The news company that showed this should be sued. if this is fake"

I've never seen someone so retarded they can't figure out when shit is faked.
He does something similar all the time in the ReACK streams. He will watch a very blatantly staged or obvious satire video, pause, and ask people if it's real.
 
He does something similar all the time in the ReACK streams. He will watch a very blatantly staged or obvious satire video, pause, and ask people if it's real.
Yeah it's super fucking autistic, and this is coming from someone on the spectrum. I can tell when shit is staged for the most part.

No wonder he had to be told WWE was fake by Rambo.
 
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