The most peculiar mental disorders in medicine

Psychiatry has always been one of the hardest and least-explored specialties of medicine, with hundreds of different types of diseases, syndromes and disorders. Currently, the researchers have summarized the most common types of psychological diseases as follows:

Strange mental disorders in medicine

1. Obsession of No. 13 (Triskaidekaphobia)

Adolf Hitler is a rabid disease of Triskaidekaphobia syndrome . In addition, the disease has many other variants, depending on the way of thinking, customs and culture of each region. For example, some places are obsessed with Friday, Day 13 (friggatriskaidekaphobia syndrome), or in China, Japan, and Korea, there is a phenomenon obsessed with number 4.

2. 'Foreign accent' syndrome

This type of abnormal disorder makes people sick, although speaking in their native language, the melody is just like a foreigner. For example, a native Englishman who is sick will speak English with a thick French accent. This disease is often the sequela of brain injury.

3. Capgras Syndrome (Illusional Disease)

People with this disease always have the feeling of obsessing that someone beside them, friends, family members, husbands, wives . is caused by another person, wearing guise.

4. The syndrome of 'strange hands'

This is a type of disorder caused by the nervous system, when one of the patient's hands requires . 'to live separately', separate and completely independent of its client. Occasionally distracted, the sick didn't even know what their hands did. That strange hand can perform some complicated movements like opening a button, removing clothes .

5. Muscle madness (Bigorexia)

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The sick person always haunts and suffers because the thought of not having a muscular body is equal to that of others. Bigorexia syndrome is the opposite of anorexia disease, when the disease often manifests as: Continuously standing in front of the mirror watching; Take any muscle strengthening medicine, regardless of whether it can be harmful to your health .

6. Great collection of books (Bibliomania)

Collection of books is a healthy hobby, but since it is a health problem, and is ready to trade all relationships, social interaction so that the whole day is a book, it is 'crazy'. Symptoms of the disease are: even if it is only one book, but whenever you see it, it is necessary to grab it and buy it for you. Regardless, all of them have the same content. They hoarded, knowing that they would never read it all.

7. The 'Headless' Syndrome

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There are times when the patients feel like their heads explode because of the terrible sound of rattles coming from inside the skull, like an explosion or a roar. This phenomenon usually occurs after waking up for 1-2 hours, but certainly not the residual residue of the dream.

8. Certificate of hair loss

As a kind of impulsive disorder, the patient always had a force of urging to pull out his hair, pulling his eyebrows, eyelashes, nose hair, hand hair, and beard . even knowing that doing so would hurt tears.

9. Androphobia

People who are sick always have a fear, abnormal obsession for men, despite the fact that they are not at all threatened. The cause of the disease is mostly due to the fact that they had previously experienced a horrifying tremor event, in which men were the most frightening 'gods'.

10. Munchausen Syndrome (Fake sickness to catch attention)

Always pretend to be sick, create false symptoms, aggravate them to expect comfort, care, patience and pampering from others. This kind of psychology is sometimes easy to understand in some people who lack affection, but overreacting, artificial "patients" will turn themselves into abnormal diseases.

11. Stendhal syndrome (shocked by beauty)

Stendhal / Standhal syndrome is a form of mental illness that occurs when a person comes into contact with too many beautiful works of art in a short period of time.

12. Stockholm Syndrome (love my kidnapper)

Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped at 11 years old. When rescued at 29, she told investigators that her kidnapper, Phillip Garrido, was 'a very good person' and 'a good father to her children'.

13. Lima Syndrome (kidnappers become attached to victims)

People with Stockholm syndrome, in this case the kidnappers become sympathetic and stick with the victim.

14. Diogenes syndrome (old people indifferent to themselves)

Diogenes' syndrome, or 'sluggish old age' syndrome, is a disorder characterized by severe self-neglect, dirty, socially isolated, indifferent people, obsessive Store discarded items and no longer shy.

15. Kleptomania (obsessed with stealing)

Kleptomania is a disease characterized by an irresistible desire to steal objects of little value. The item may be completely unworthy like a clip or toilet paper. Some people with kleptomania syndrome are not even aware of their theft.

16. Cotard syndrome (believing that he is a corpse)

Cotard syndrome makes patients believe that they are dead, non-existent, rotting, have lost all blood or organs in the body. Although rare, some patients are paranoid and immortal.

17. Synesthesia (letters with colors, colors with flavor)

This is the neurological consolidation of the senses that makes the patients see letters with colors, sounds of color, and flavorful colors. For example, the word 'cup' tastes like chocolate ice cream.

18. Fregoli paranoia (everyone is the same)

The patient believes that the people around him are carrying the face of a person who is always changing or disguising himself.

19. Arctic Hysteria

This disease is mostly found in Eskimo dogs and women. Symptoms include intense screaming and uncontrolled wild behavior, depression, loss of feeling with cold and many other symptoms.

20. Reduplicative Paramnesia

The patient believes that a place or place has been copied, exists simultaneously in two or more locations, or that location has been 'moved' to another place.

21. Celebriphilia (idolatry)

Celebriphilia is an unusually strong desire to have romantic / sexual relations with idols.

22. Androphobia (hatred for men)

Androphobia is a situation where people hate men excessively.

23. Paedophilia (pedophile)

Paedophilia is characterized by mainly or completely sexual desire only for un-pubescent children.

24. Syndrome "Alice in Wonderland"

The patient said their feeling of time, space and body image was distorted. For example, the dog may look just the size of a mouse.

25. Apotemnophilia / Amputation disorder

Patients are obsessed with the desire to amputate healthy limbs or other parts of the body so that they can find ways to do it themselves.

26. Hybristophilia (love crime)

That is when a person has sexual desire or is attracted to the person who committed the crime.

27. Jumping Frenchmen of Maine

This disease causes excessive 'jerky' reflexes, similar to uncontrolled 'startling' reflexes, but may also include sudden movements in all parts of the body.