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EICHEN HOUSE
PATIENT INFORMATION
PATIENT INFORMATION
PATIENT #
NAME [LAST, FIRST (M)]
AGE [IN NUMBERS]
GENDER
HEIGHT [USE PB'S]
PLAYBY NAME
0008
NAME [LAST, FIRST (M)]
CARTMAN, ERIC T.
AGE [IN NUMBERS]
22
GENDER
MALE
HEIGHT [USE PB'S]
5'2"
PLAYBY NAME
PATRICK STUMP
PATIENT HISTORY
All quotes are taken directly from court transcripts and personal interviews. A list of document sources can be furnished upon request.
Eric Cartman's entire life was a neverending hell, in my humble opinion.
I followed the case as it exploded in a small mountain suburb. As a journalist, the case offered a multitude of sensational details, the kinds of things the public wants to see. The nature of the case itself was explosive - the Tenorman family, by all accounts an incredibly average family who'd lived in Eric's neighborhood for years without causing any trouble, is suddenly and inexplicably murdered by the college-age son of a local prostitute? It was a media circus from the word 'go'.
The verdict came down, as most people know, with Eric Cartman being not guilty by means of insanity, and with his sentence being commuted to involve intensive therapeutic and psychiatric care in Echo House, one of the nation's pre-eminent sanitariums. Many people thought this was too good for him. Hopefully, through my knowledge of him, I can illuminate why I agree with that sentence and wish your healthcare providers the best in dealing with a clearly disturbed young man.
Unlike the Tenormans, who lived average lives and died brutally and suddenly, there was all kinds of documentation about Eric being a "troublemaker". In those documents, I was able to glean a lot of information about Eric's fractured mental state and personal issues.
Even as a child, Eric acted in a manner uncharacteristic of a child. He was always acting out in elementary school, mocking other students openly for their various flaws and beliefs, yet getting massively offended when anyone dare say anything about his weight. His oratory skills were above and beyond the average grade-schooler's, but he was almost expelled for using his brand of oratory against a girl his age when the two of them ran against each other for student council president. Among other things, he suggested that she turned tricks behind the school and had committed genocide against Smurfs. (Smurfs are imaginary creatures.) The woman in question, Wendy Testaburger, testified extensively against his character during his trial, arguing that he was completely aware of how monstrous he was. He'd been known to make up imaginary friends, she said, like his various dolls. When his Clyde Frog doll ripped and 'died', she said, he held a funeral deliberately to manipulate the emotions of his friends. That anecdote was used to bolster the defense's case that Eric was out of his mind, given that one of the voices he says he hears in his head was also one of his "imaginary friends", a woman named Polly Prissypants.
Eric, in a psychiatric evaluation that was admitted as relevant evidence in his trial, described Polly Prissypants thusly: "She's the one telling me that I can grow up and be a better person. She's always telling me to let her and the others go, but they won't leave me alone, so I can't let them go. ...she seems like a better person than him."
'Him' is the other manifestation that started developing when he was a child, Cupid-Me. Eric had an inkling that he could play matchmaker for some of his friends in elementary school, and actually succeeded in uniting two of his friends for quite some time. He claimed to some of his friends, including Leopold "Butters" Stotch, that he had help from a being called Cupid-Me. Leopold noted that sometimes, he saw Eric talking to Cupid-Me, but didn't think much of it, "because he didn't want to bring it up to his parents and get grounded." (On a related note, Leopold Stotch should've been taken away from his parents by Child Protective Services.) Cupid-Me's machinations grew much more dangerous in later years.
Eric barely mentioned anything about his home life with his mother, but others who took the stand at his trial were able to fill in quite a few gaps. His mother was a well-known prostitute in town who often left Eric to his own devices. When she was home, she would bring some of her clients with her. Eric noted that he blacked out large portions of his childhood that involved his mother; Eric's psychiatric evaluations placed great emphasis on how much he recoiled from simple touch, and how the very idea of being hugged made him try to defend himself in a violent manner. A few amicus briefs filed with the court suggested that Eric was abused as a child, but that very few people would have questioned it because, in their eyes, Eric's mother let him do whatever he wanted and was a terrible parent anyways.
Eric's mother could not take the stand, as she'd vanished when Eric was finishing up high school, and has still not been found.
In junior high, he mellowed out slightly in terms of troublemaking, his eyesight deteriorating because of how often his nose was in his computer and his cell phone. He had absolutely no parental guidance at this time, and was often seen in the company of his three closest companions, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Kenny McCormick. Right around this time, Kenny McCormick said in court, Eric began to question whether or not Kenny was alive. Kenny couldn't hang out with his friends as often as he'd liked; he had a younger sister that he was very devoted to, and would often help her with schoolwork. Eric started out joking that he was dead, Kenny said in court, "but then he started believing it. It was like he really thought that if I wasn't there, I'd died. I'd sometimes, like, pop out from behind a corner, and he'd think I materialized out of thin air. It sounds really really stupid to explain it, but it's just... it's hard to explain."
Eric was a huge fan of comic books, especially those involving Mysterion, a masked crusader for justice. Eric wrote quite a few comics imagining himself as a superhero named The Coon (yes, that is a horribly awful name for a superhero), but they were roundly criticized by his friends for having completely insane stories that made no sense. Stan Marsh described one as being "insanely weird... like, he killed the Backstreet Boys with the Dark Lord Cthulhu so NSYNC could be the best boy band in the world. I actually kinda liked that one. No one else did."
High school saw Eric withdrawing more from his peer group. Leopold remained one of his better friends throughout his entire life, and testified that Eric always seemed to look a bit ill. He was trying to lose weight, so Leopold assumed he was just not going about being healthy in the right way. Stan Marsh suspected that some of Eric's woes lie with Kyle Broflovski, one of the only people in Eric's hometown who refused to testify and hasn't given any sort of statements about the case. Stan, like a few others, assumed that Eric had fallen in love with the other teenager, though most of the pair's interactions involved screaming at each other at the top of their lungs and occasionally getting into a fistfight. "You could just sense that he had no idea what to actually do about Kyle," Kenny agreed. "I don't think he'd really ever loved anyone before that. I mean, his mom was never really a mom, you know. People said he had no empathy but he was always freaked out when he thought I'd died, so I knew he was capable of feeling." Stan added, "he probably thought it would give people too much ammunition against him. People fucking hated him by that point in life, and the last thing he needed was to be labeled the jerkass gay kid, so he just kept on being the jerkass kid."
Eric was also hiding the existence of Cupid-Me from his friends, as the cheerful matchmaker figure from elementary school had morphed into something very dangerous in Eric's mind. The little bits and pieces Eric has revealed suggest that Cupid-Me had become obsessed with matching up himself and Eric, and went to frightening lengths to make sure nothing came between them. Eric stated that Cupid-Me often tried to force him into submission physically (something that wouldn't be possible), and would peter off when asked why. His psychiatric evaluation took the stance that Eric was reliving childhood abuse through Cupid-Me.
The final straw was Eric's mother disappearing in his senior year. He barely passed high school, given how much mental turmoil he was in, and instead of going to college, had to devote the next two years of his life to trying to find his mother. When it became apparent she wasn't to be found, Eric had to work out all of the issues within her estate. Most of Eric's friends also went away to college, leaving him rather adrift in his hometown. One of the few who didn't leave to go to college, and commuted, was Kyle. He steadfastly refuses to help illuminate this case, which, unfortunately, means we have little information on Eric from ages eighteen to twenty-two.
What we do know is that by the time Eric was twenty-two, and had killed his longtime neighbors with a shotgun, he'd spent four years in near isolation, tormented by his mother's disappearance and presumed death, being attacked by one of the voices in his head on a near-regular basis, being in love with one of his closer friends, spiraling economic problems related to his mother's estate, and an already shaky moral balance.
When treating him, I really do implore you to put the murder trial out of your mind. It was covered wall-to-wall on all the major news outlets and sensationalized to the point of exploitation. Eric is exceptionally bright. He's just incredibly fragmented. He likely won't open up much more of himself to you, and all things considered, he does still behave like a spoiled brat.
I only saw him vulnerable once. It was right after he was sentenced to go to Echo House. A reporter asked him how he felt about the verdict.
Eric paused before speaking.
"Maybe this will all end now."
Eric Cartman's entire life was a neverending hell, in my humble opinion.
I followed the case as it exploded in a small mountain suburb. As a journalist, the case offered a multitude of sensational details, the kinds of things the public wants to see. The nature of the case itself was explosive - the Tenorman family, by all accounts an incredibly average family who'd lived in Eric's neighborhood for years without causing any trouble, is suddenly and inexplicably murdered by the college-age son of a local prostitute? It was a media circus from the word 'go'.
The verdict came down, as most people know, with Eric Cartman being not guilty by means of insanity, and with his sentence being commuted to involve intensive therapeutic and psychiatric care in Echo House, one of the nation's pre-eminent sanitariums. Many people thought this was too good for him. Hopefully, through my knowledge of him, I can illuminate why I agree with that sentence and wish your healthcare providers the best in dealing with a clearly disturbed young man.
Unlike the Tenormans, who lived average lives and died brutally and suddenly, there was all kinds of documentation about Eric being a "troublemaker". In those documents, I was able to glean a lot of information about Eric's fractured mental state and personal issues.
Even as a child, Eric acted in a manner uncharacteristic of a child. He was always acting out in elementary school, mocking other students openly for their various flaws and beliefs, yet getting massively offended when anyone dare say anything about his weight. His oratory skills were above and beyond the average grade-schooler's, but he was almost expelled for using his brand of oratory against a girl his age when the two of them ran against each other for student council president. Among other things, he suggested that she turned tricks behind the school and had committed genocide against Smurfs. (Smurfs are imaginary creatures.) The woman in question, Wendy Testaburger, testified extensively against his character during his trial, arguing that he was completely aware of how monstrous he was. He'd been known to make up imaginary friends, she said, like his various dolls. When his Clyde Frog doll ripped and 'died', she said, he held a funeral deliberately to manipulate the emotions of his friends. That anecdote was used to bolster the defense's case that Eric was out of his mind, given that one of the voices he says he hears in his head was also one of his "imaginary friends", a woman named Polly Prissypants.
Eric, in a psychiatric evaluation that was admitted as relevant evidence in his trial, described Polly Prissypants thusly: "She's the one telling me that I can grow up and be a better person. She's always telling me to let her and the others go, but they won't leave me alone, so I can't let them go. ...she seems like a better person than him."
'Him' is the other manifestation that started developing when he was a child, Cupid-Me. Eric had an inkling that he could play matchmaker for some of his friends in elementary school, and actually succeeded in uniting two of his friends for quite some time. He claimed to some of his friends, including Leopold "Butters" Stotch, that he had help from a being called Cupid-Me. Leopold noted that sometimes, he saw Eric talking to Cupid-Me, but didn't think much of it, "because he didn't want to bring it up to his parents and get grounded." (On a related note, Leopold Stotch should've been taken away from his parents by Child Protective Services.) Cupid-Me's machinations grew much more dangerous in later years.
Eric barely mentioned anything about his home life with his mother, but others who took the stand at his trial were able to fill in quite a few gaps. His mother was a well-known prostitute in town who often left Eric to his own devices. When she was home, she would bring some of her clients with her. Eric noted that he blacked out large portions of his childhood that involved his mother; Eric's psychiatric evaluations placed great emphasis on how much he recoiled from simple touch, and how the very idea of being hugged made him try to defend himself in a violent manner. A few amicus briefs filed with the court suggested that Eric was abused as a child, but that very few people would have questioned it because, in their eyes, Eric's mother let him do whatever he wanted and was a terrible parent anyways.
Eric's mother could not take the stand, as she'd vanished when Eric was finishing up high school, and has still not been found.
In junior high, he mellowed out slightly in terms of troublemaking, his eyesight deteriorating because of how often his nose was in his computer and his cell phone. He had absolutely no parental guidance at this time, and was often seen in the company of his three closest companions, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Kenny McCormick. Right around this time, Kenny McCormick said in court, Eric began to question whether or not Kenny was alive. Kenny couldn't hang out with his friends as often as he'd liked; he had a younger sister that he was very devoted to, and would often help her with schoolwork. Eric started out joking that he was dead, Kenny said in court, "but then he started believing it. It was like he really thought that if I wasn't there, I'd died. I'd sometimes, like, pop out from behind a corner, and he'd think I materialized out of thin air. It sounds really really stupid to explain it, but it's just... it's hard to explain."
Eric was a huge fan of comic books, especially those involving Mysterion, a masked crusader for justice. Eric wrote quite a few comics imagining himself as a superhero named The Coon (yes, that is a horribly awful name for a superhero), but they were roundly criticized by his friends for having completely insane stories that made no sense. Stan Marsh described one as being "insanely weird... like, he killed the Backstreet Boys with the Dark Lord Cthulhu so NSYNC could be the best boy band in the world. I actually kinda liked that one. No one else did."
High school saw Eric withdrawing more from his peer group. Leopold remained one of his better friends throughout his entire life, and testified that Eric always seemed to look a bit ill. He was trying to lose weight, so Leopold assumed he was just not going about being healthy in the right way. Stan Marsh suspected that some of Eric's woes lie with Kyle Broflovski, one of the only people in Eric's hometown who refused to testify and hasn't given any sort of statements about the case. Stan, like a few others, assumed that Eric had fallen in love with the other teenager, though most of the pair's interactions involved screaming at each other at the top of their lungs and occasionally getting into a fistfight. "You could just sense that he had no idea what to actually do about Kyle," Kenny agreed. "I don't think he'd really ever loved anyone before that. I mean, his mom was never really a mom, you know. People said he had no empathy but he was always freaked out when he thought I'd died, so I knew he was capable of feeling." Stan added, "he probably thought it would give people too much ammunition against him. People fucking hated him by that point in life, and the last thing he needed was to be labeled the jerkass gay kid, so he just kept on being the jerkass kid."
Eric was also hiding the existence of Cupid-Me from his friends, as the cheerful matchmaker figure from elementary school had morphed into something very dangerous in Eric's mind. The little bits and pieces Eric has revealed suggest that Cupid-Me had become obsessed with matching up himself and Eric, and went to frightening lengths to make sure nothing came between them. Eric stated that Cupid-Me often tried to force him into submission physically (something that wouldn't be possible), and would peter off when asked why. His psychiatric evaluation took the stance that Eric was reliving childhood abuse through Cupid-Me.
The final straw was Eric's mother disappearing in his senior year. He barely passed high school, given how much mental turmoil he was in, and instead of going to college, had to devote the next two years of his life to trying to find his mother. When it became apparent she wasn't to be found, Eric had to work out all of the issues within her estate. Most of Eric's friends also went away to college, leaving him rather adrift in his hometown. One of the few who didn't leave to go to college, and commuted, was Kyle. He steadfastly refuses to help illuminate this case, which, unfortunately, means we have little information on Eric from ages eighteen to twenty-two.
What we do know is that by the time Eric was twenty-two, and had killed his longtime neighbors with a shotgun, he'd spent four years in near isolation, tormented by his mother's disappearance and presumed death, being attacked by one of the voices in his head on a near-regular basis, being in love with one of his closer friends, spiraling economic problems related to his mother's estate, and an already shaky moral balance.
When treating him, I really do implore you to put the murder trial out of your mind. It was covered wall-to-wall on all the major news outlets and sensationalized to the point of exploitation. Eric is exceptionally bright. He's just incredibly fragmented. He likely won't open up much more of himself to you, and all things considered, he does still behave like a spoiled brat.
I only saw him vulnerable once. It was right after he was sentenced to go to Echo House. A reporter asked him how he felt about the verdict.
Eric paused before speaking.
"Maybe this will all end now."
PRESENTS WITH
The only reason Eric's not in prison is because, during his depositions and testimony, it became blatantly obvious that there were a multitude of other things swimming through his badly fissured brain. One would be overwhelmed trying to piece all of his various neuroses together, but we must attempt something:
- The obvious one, the one he testified to - he genuinely believes in the existence of, among other things, a lovesick rapist-cum-matchmaker named Cupid-Me, the Dark Lord Cthulhu, a Victorian woman named Polly Prissypants, and the children's superhero Mysterion. He also believes that all of those beings are in communication with him, on a near-constant basis, in his mind. Cupid-Me by far has the most sway on Eric, and Eric has attested to being able to 'feel' Cupid-Me touch him.
- Eric also thinks that one of the kids in his neighborhood, Kenny McCormick, "dies all the time". As of this writing, Kenny McCormick is alive and well, clearly having never died.
- Eric's moral code is either nonexistent or wildly warped. His idea of nice is putting on a decent sweater. He murdered a suburban family as payback for losing five dollars in a bet to their son, and, while on trial, couldn't comprehend why people were furious at him, arguing that his money was stolen and that he was the one who'd been dealt a lousy hand. He has had affection for only one person in his life, and his idea of acting on it was spewing racial epithets towards said object of affection, in addition to trying to "infect him with AIDS". The object of affection declined to be interviewed by anyone; his one comment to news media was "leave me the fuck alone I swear to God". Weirdly, he gets extremely emotionally agitated when confronted with the voices in his head.
- Extremely phobic of touch. Has punched people who attempted to shake his hand.
- The obvious one, the one he testified to - he genuinely believes in the existence of, among other things, a lovesick rapist-cum-matchmaker named Cupid-Me, the Dark Lord Cthulhu, a Victorian woman named Polly Prissypants, and the children's superhero Mysterion. He also believes that all of those beings are in communication with him, on a near-constant basis, in his mind. Cupid-Me by far has the most sway on Eric, and Eric has attested to being able to 'feel' Cupid-Me touch him.
- Eric also thinks that one of the kids in his neighborhood, Kenny McCormick, "dies all the time". As of this writing, Kenny McCormick is alive and well, clearly having never died.
- Eric's moral code is either nonexistent or wildly warped. His idea of nice is putting on a decent sweater. He murdered a suburban family as payback for losing five dollars in a bet to their son, and, while on trial, couldn't comprehend why people were furious at him, arguing that his money was stolen and that he was the one who'd been dealt a lousy hand. He has had affection for only one person in his life, and his idea of acting on it was spewing racial epithets towards said object of affection, in addition to trying to "infect him with AIDS". The object of affection declined to be interviewed by anyone; his one comment to news media was "leave me the fuck alone I swear to God". Weirdly, he gets extremely emotionally agitated when confronted with the voices in his head.
- Extremely phobic of touch. Has punched people who attempted to shake his hand.
)death is on the way at echo house