Was Glory schizo?

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In her first episode when she's trying to get information about The Key from the Gregorian Monk, she has a spazz attack.

Was she schizo?
 
She would insane in between brain sucks. After a fresh brain suck she would be cool again for awhile til it was time for another brain suck. So it's possible that when insanity started to strike her, voices started too 🙂
 
It's mentioned a few times (don't really remember by who) that Glory as we see her in human form isn't even close to as powerful as she truly is. She's contained as much as possible in a human body, but it strains her, and the form she's in. I think that's why we see her spazing out so often. She always seems to calm down a bit when she does the big brain drain on people.
 
I wouldn't classify Glory with any sort of mental illness from Earth, because she wasn't from here. I would just say that her need to suck brains drove her to insanity a lot of time because she needed that power to sustain herself.
 
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She quite literally had multiple personality disorder 🙂 She was definitely psychotic, but I don't know that she was schizophrenic.
 
As I remember it, Giles stated that Glorificus (Glory) was a Hell God, she ruled a world with two other Hell Gods. They feared her and caste her out, she was put on earth and contained in a human form, her prison. Glory (Glorificus) wanted the key to get home, she increased her personal power by 'brain-sucking' humans, when that power was low she needed a boost to maintain her power. That 'spazz attack' thing was just her low-level indicator at work.
 
From an outsiders point of view if they assumed she was human, oh yeah, they'd probably say she was schizo, bipolar & had multiple personality disorder/borderline personality disorder. But I agree with HisMrs, you just can't classify her psyche or mind set as a human because she wasn't human.
 
Not liking the term 'spazz attack' when talking about mental illness. But yeah, her character was essentially schizophrenic but not in the literal sense (as it was a result of supernatural forces not psychological ones). She was quite literally two people in one body.
 
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