Case File for Joshua Cho
Name: Cho, Joshua
Sex: Male
Age: 28
D.O.B.: October 17
Blood Type: B-
Height: 5 feet 9 inches
Weight: 185
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Nationality: American
Family History: Cho is an only child, with both parents still living but having minimal contact with him. Father was verbally abusive, possibly physically abusive as well. Mother did not intervene to stop abuse during Cho’s childhood but was not herself abusive. Cho also has several younger cousins with who he was friendly. No members of his family have attempted contact after Cho’s institutionalization.
Life History: Cho’s bipolar disorder began to manifest when he was still a child and he often got into trouble at school. This wasn’t helped by his family life, where he was regularly told that he was a failure, a coward, and would never be good at anything. The presence of his mental disorder was never acknowledged and he wasn’t diagnosed until after he’d left high school. After moving out, he attended college for a year but dropped out right before finals.
At the time his delusions began to come on, Cho was working at a security guard. While he did his job with reasonable competency, his personal life was very chaotic. He lived alone and had a tendency of going out to wild parties, drinking a lot, having badly thought-out sex, and generally engaging in thrill-seeking abilities. While he had many acquaintances, he had only one close friend named Levi. Levi is employed at the same company as Cho and had known him for many years. As Cho’s condition worsened Levi found himself having to take the position of caretaker as well as friend.
While Cho had been slightly unstable for years due to having bipolar disorder (engaging in reckless thrill seeking and getting into fights in his manic periods, barely managing to do anything besides drag himself to work in his depressive periods), things didn’t get severely bad until he started abusing meth.
Levi eventually managed to drag Cho to rehab and Cho cleaned himself up briefly before relapsing again, with his depression not helping the situation. This happened several times in the course of six months. Cho’s drug habit caused him to act erratically at work and his boss reluctantly told Levi to relay to Cho that he was about to be fired. Levi relayed this to Cho, who showed up the next day as if nothing had happened-and then proceeded to go into the bathroom and overdose. Cho spent a short time in a coma but was resuscitated with only very minor brain damage. He woke up as Scourge.
Medical History: Cho has been formally diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but has only attended a few therapy sessions before withdrawing and tried no medications. He has abused methamphetamines in the past, culminating in an overdose, after which his delusional symptoms began to manifest in full. Cho may have used other drugs as another form of self-medication, but none have shown up in his system.
While severe manic or depressive episodes temporarily altered his perception, he didn’t reach the point of being out of touch with reality until he started taking methamphetamine. His hobby of photographing people became a compulsion, as he was desperate to record everything that was happening around him-just in case. Auditory hallucinations of footsteps or distant voices also began to occur. It was at this point Cho gained his current rather bizarre appearance, insisting that the beard style and pink nails were how he was ‘supposed’ to look.
During this period Cho remained attached to his identity even when he was detached from reality. It was not until after his overdose that the most severe symptoms began. After waking up from his coma, Cho was at first disoriented and then outright terrified, demanding to know where he was and what had been done to him. He was forcibly sedated after attacking a nurse and attempting to escape the hospital. Deemed a danger to himself and others, he was committed to Landel’s Institute.
Current Status: Patient has become less violent around other patients and more cooperative with staff, although there are no signs of mental progress. When visited by his friend Levi he reacted first with anger and then with friendliness, identifying him as similar to a character from his psychosis but dismissing any connection between them.
Working Diagnosis: Brain damage due to methamphetamine psychosis complicated by mood disorder.
Sex: Male
Age: 28
D.O.B.: October 17
Blood Type: B-
Height: 5 feet 9 inches
Weight: 185
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Nationality: American
Family History: Cho is an only child, with both parents still living but having minimal contact with him. Father was verbally abusive, possibly physically abusive as well. Mother did not intervene to stop abuse during Cho’s childhood but was not herself abusive. Cho also has several younger cousins with who he was friendly. No members of his family have attempted contact after Cho’s institutionalization.
Life History: Cho’s bipolar disorder began to manifest when he was still a child and he often got into trouble at school. This wasn’t helped by his family life, where he was regularly told that he was a failure, a coward, and would never be good at anything. The presence of his mental disorder was never acknowledged and he wasn’t diagnosed until after he’d left high school. After moving out, he attended college for a year but dropped out right before finals.
At the time his delusions began to come on, Cho was working at a security guard. While he did his job with reasonable competency, his personal life was very chaotic. He lived alone and had a tendency of going out to wild parties, drinking a lot, having badly thought-out sex, and generally engaging in thrill-seeking abilities. While he had many acquaintances, he had only one close friend named Levi. Levi is employed at the same company as Cho and had known him for many years. As Cho’s condition worsened Levi found himself having to take the position of caretaker as well as friend.
While Cho had been slightly unstable for years due to having bipolar disorder (engaging in reckless thrill seeking and getting into fights in his manic periods, barely managing to do anything besides drag himself to work in his depressive periods), things didn’t get severely bad until he started abusing meth.
Levi eventually managed to drag Cho to rehab and Cho cleaned himself up briefly before relapsing again, with his depression not helping the situation. This happened several times in the course of six months. Cho’s drug habit caused him to act erratically at work and his boss reluctantly told Levi to relay to Cho that he was about to be fired. Levi relayed this to Cho, who showed up the next day as if nothing had happened-and then proceeded to go into the bathroom and overdose. Cho spent a short time in a coma but was resuscitated with only very minor brain damage. He woke up as Scourge.
Medical History: Cho has been formally diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but has only attended a few therapy sessions before withdrawing and tried no medications. He has abused methamphetamines in the past, culminating in an overdose, after which his delusional symptoms began to manifest in full. Cho may have used other drugs as another form of self-medication, but none have shown up in his system.
While severe manic or depressive episodes temporarily altered his perception, he didn’t reach the point of being out of touch with reality until he started taking methamphetamine. His hobby of photographing people became a compulsion, as he was desperate to record everything that was happening around him-just in case. Auditory hallucinations of footsteps or distant voices also began to occur. It was at this point Cho gained his current rather bizarre appearance, insisting that the beard style and pink nails were how he was ‘supposed’ to look.
During this period Cho remained attached to his identity even when he was detached from reality. It was not until after his overdose that the most severe symptoms began. After waking up from his coma, Cho was at first disoriented and then outright terrified, demanding to know where he was and what had been done to him. He was forcibly sedated after attacking a nurse and attempting to escape the hospital. Deemed a danger to himself and others, he was committed to Landel’s Institute.
Current Status: Patient has become less violent around other patients and more cooperative with staff, although there are no signs of mental progress. When visited by his friend Levi he reacted first with anger and then with friendliness, identifying him as similar to a character from his psychosis but dismissing any connection between them.
Working Diagnosis: Brain damage due to methamphetamine psychosis complicated by mood disorder.