10 Rare Mental Disorders

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Some of these are just crazy!

[Ammi]

I've heard of quite a few of them...not Jerusalem Syndrome though..I'm sure there was a guy in Germany not so long ago who had the flesh eating one

[Jords]

no 3 would send you crazy :joker:

[SoBig]

no 3 would send you crazy :joker:

haha

I've seen that one in movies before.

[Ammi]

no 3 would send you crazy :joker:

..we should have a poll.....If you could have any 3....which 3 would you choose

[Me. I Am Salman]

Number 6 freaks the **** out of me

[GypsyGoth]

The only ones I hadn't heard of were; Wendigo Psychosis, that is scary. Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, I'm going to read up more on that it sounds fascinating. Stendhal Syndrome, that sounds silly. Capgras Delusion, sounds like a form of schizophrenia.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i have Wendigo Psychosis

[Benjamin]

Interesting ten. Will read up on a few of those later.

[Benjamin]

i have Wendigo Psychosis

Putting penis in your mouth does not count as eating human flesh.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i dont have it then

[Benjamin]

:joker:

[GypsyGoth]

:laugh2:

[Niall]

I knew about the majority of those.

The foreign accent one is actually hilarious though I'm sorry. :joker: I remember seeing a woman with it on This Morning once, and she was a 60 year old white lady and she spoke in a thick Jamaican accent. I was laughing so hard omg. :joker:

[thesheriff443]

what is the one called when you get an erection over a car,

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

dogging

[Kizzy]

Hahahahahahahaha :D

[Incensed]

Being a Man U fan has got to be there somewhere :hugesmile:

[Jords]

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woah!

[Marsh.]

I think Madonna has Foreign Accent syndrome. lol

[thesheriff443]

:dogging

:joker:why are they flashing their lights,lets ask:joker:

[Jords]

This explains the capgras delusion really well :shocked:

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-interested in this kinda stuff-

[thesheriff443]

cant watch in case i catch it,lol

[GypsyGoth]

cant watch in case i catch it,lol

That's one of the Disorders :shocked:

[Ammi]

I don't understand why it's just one person..it's always the mums

[Jords]

cant watch in case i catch it,lol

LOL!

Just watched a vid on Cotard's syndrome and 1 of the symptons is feeling like youre missing organs leading you to think you are dead and Im sat here thinking what if I dont actually have kidneys :suspect: :joker:

[Jords]

I don't understand why it's just one person..it's always the mums

It was his dad and apartment too. And the Doc mentioned a case about a pet dog being thought as an imposter. So odd but interesting.

[thesheriff443]

there is a film in there somewhere.

[Patrick]

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woah!

SHE SOUNDS LIKE NADIA FROM BIG BROTHER! :amazed:

Only less annoying and masculine.

[Jords]

Maybe Nadia has foreign accent syndrome :suspect:

[thesheriff443]

im not missing any organs,just a piano

[Marsh.]

Maybe Nadia has foreign accent syndrome :suspect:

Nadia IS foreign. lol

[thesheriff443]

dont try to intimidate me j,lol

[Kizzy]

Wow totes amazeballs, i think i suffer from sinesthesia as orange smarties taste orange...waddyameanimnuts!?

[thesheriff443]

Wow totes amazeballs, i think i suffer from sinesthesia as orange smarties taste orange...waddyameanimnuts!?

at last a post i can understand,lol

[Kizzy]

In all seriousness these are all facinating, some more than others, the human flesh one? i can only assume its due to a deficiency in something?...something we cant get from food?

[thesheriff443]

not to state the obvious,but its all in the mind,of the person suffering from each dissorder, the mind is a powerfull thing, when its not working right any dissorder is possible,

[thesheriff443]

its that age old saying,your not thinking straight!

[Benjamin]

This explains the capgras delusion really well :shocked:

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-interested in this kinda stuff-

I hate Freudian theories so much.

[Kizzy]

to an extent yes, but some are pysical, and some are psychological. My fave is the foreign accent one,i see it as a link to a passed life.... contraversial :)

[Kizzy]

ooh ukt, i wish that study had gone a little further in the examination and taken the photos of his parents from various stages in his life, not just the most recent. It could be that they just dont fit into one particular timeframe he is trapped in...or like my kids they are changelings...lol!

[Livia]

Interesting... mad, but interesting. I often wonder whether if the more coverage these syndromes get, the more people suffer from them?

[Kate!]

Capgras Syndrome.

Interesting stuff. I wonder if they go so far as to go to the police and insist their family member is an imposter. It's quite scary really.

[Z]

I've heard of all of these before and I'm not sure how because I don't take a huge amount of interest in psychological disorders :laugh: weird. The foreign accent syndrome is so fascinating though.

[Kizzy]

Are you suggesting psychological problems are all in peoples heads livia? ;)

[Boothy]

It would be horrible to live with forever, but I want to experience numbers 5 and 7. Especially number 7.

[Ammi]

This was the German guy who ate people..

In one of the most extraordinary trials in German criminal history, the self-confessed cannibal admitted that he had met a 43-year-old Berlin engineer, Bernd Brandes, after advertising on the internet, and had chopped him up and eaten him.

It was, he said, something he had wanted to do for a long time. "I always had the fantasy and in the end I fulfilled it," Meiwes told the court on the first day of his trial for murder in the nearby city of Kassel

In March 2001 Meiwes advertised on the internet for a "young well-built man, who wanted to be eaten". Brandes replied.

On the evening of March 9, the two men went up to the bedroom in Meiwes' rambling timbered farmhouse. Mr Brandes swallowed 20 sleeping tablets and half a bottle of schnapps before Meiwes cut off Brandes' penis, with his agreement, and fried it for both of them to eat

Brandes - by this stage bleeding heavily - then took a bath, while Meiwes read a Star Trek novel

....as you do in those awkward moments

...the guy volunteered for it

Edit: I shouldn't have said 'people'..I think he only did it once...there's a bit of a shortage of volunteers these days

[MTVN]

Saw a documentary about that once, I remember the guy who had his penis chopped off was apparently disappointed there wasn't more blood and that it was too chewy to eat

[Ammi]

Saw a documentary about that once, I remember the guy who had his penis chopped off was apparently disappointed there wasn't more blood and that it was too chewy to eat

..It's irritating when you don't get what you order

[Livia]

Are you suggesting psychological problems are all in peoples heads livia? ;)

LOL... literally.

I do think some of the wackier syndromes are 'acquired' by some people to make themselves seem more interesting. It's like people who say they have a phobia, but in reality are just scared of something. Or perhaps I'm just cynical... or perhaps there's a more interesting clinical name for what I am!

[Ammi]

....Brandes spoke good English, he said, and since eating him Meiwes English had improved...

...that's worth noting to any language students out there

[Livia]

..it's irritating when you don't get what you order

lmao...

[MTVN]

..It's irritating when you don't get what you order

It is indeed, he should have sent it back

[Niall]

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I'm sorry but its just too funny. I can't stop laughing. :laugh3:

[Ammi]

Paris Syndrome

Paris syndrome is a condition exclusive to Japanese tourists and nationals, which causes them to have a mental breakdown while in the famous city. Of the millions of Japanese tourists that visit the city every year, around a dozen suffer this illness and have to be returned to their home country.

The condition is basically a severe form of ‘culture shock’. Polite Japanese tourists who come to the city are unable to separate their idyllic view of the city, seen in such films as Amelie, with the reality of a modern, bustling metropolis.

Japanese tourists who come into contact with, say, a rude French waiter, will be unable to argue back and be forced to bottle up their own anger which eventually leads to a full mental breakdown.

The Japanese embassy has a 24hr hotline for tourists suffering for severe culture shock, and can provide emergency hospital treatment if necessary.

[thesheriff443]

i heard they dont have round abouts in japan

[waterhog]

i used to no this guy - he kept writting crazy stupid meaningless poems on everything - they took him into hospital and sectioned him - i felt so sorry for him.

[Ammi]

LOL... literally.

I do think some of the wackier syndromes are 'acquired' by some people to make themselves seem more interesting. It's like people who say they have a phobia, but in reality are just scared of something. Or perhaps I'm just cynical... or perhaps there's a more interesting clinical name for what I am!

..Yeah, I know what you mean, but some are real and some are just nutjobs...I have a phobia of blood, I think it is a real phobia..I faint if I cut my finger or anything small like that...I thought I would grow out of it but haven't...I don't know if it is an actual phobia but it feels like one

[Ammi]

I've always been fascinated by Munchausen Syndrome

Most people would know what this mental disorder is all about: the sufferer feigns, exaggerates, or creates symptoms of illnesses in himself or herself in order to gain attention, sympathy, and comfort from medical personnel. While we all have a tiny spark of “attention *****” in us, patients who suffer from Munchausen sometimes go to dangerous and extreme measures, like this horrifying story about Sarena Sherrard, who “injected fecal matter into her infant daughter to bring attention to herself.”



Exploding head syndrome
I imagine this syndrome to not being very pleasant: The person occasionally experience a tremendously loud noise as if from within his or her own head, usually described as an explosion or a roar. I wonder if this would be like migraine

[Niall]

Paris Syndrome

Paris syndrome is a condition exclusive to Japanese tourists and nationals, which causes them to have a mental breakdown while in the famous city. Of the millions of Japanese tourists that visit the city every year, around a dozen suffer this illness and have to be returned to their home country.

The condition is basically a severe form of ‘culture shock’. Polite Japanese tourists who come to the city are unable to separate their idyllic view of the city, seen in such films as Amelie, with the reality of a modern, bustling metropolis.

Japanese tourists who come into contact with, say, a rude French waiter, will be unable to argue back and be forced to bottle up their own anger which eventually leads to a full mental breakdown.

The Japanese embassy has a 24hr hotline for tourists suffering for severe culture shock, and can provide emergency hospital treatment if necessary.

Aww those poor Japanese people. :laugh:

[Kizzy]

I've always been fascinated by Munchausen Syndrome

Most people would know what this mental disorder is all about: the sufferer feigns, exaggerates, or creates symptoms of illnesses in himself or herself in order to gain attention, sympathy, and comfort from medical personnel. While we all have a tiny spark of “attention *****” in us, patients who suffer from Munchausen sometimes go to dangerous and extreme measures, like this horrifying story about Sarena Sherrard, who “injected fecal matter into her infant daughter to bring attention to herself.”



Exploding head syndrome
I imagine this syndrome to not being very pleasant: The person occasionally experience a tremendously loud noise as if from within his or her own head, usually described as an explosion or a roar. I wonder if this would be like migraine

Munchausen syndrome by proxy, is the term for parents/adults causing illness to a child.
Exploding head syndrome ...yep i have thateverytime my kids p me off! lol. Phobias are different to a fear, i stopped a friend of mine from running off a cliff as she thought there was a wasp chasing her...the fear is all consuming you can not fake it.

[GypsyGoth]

They mentioned Paris Syndrome on QI once.

[Kizzy]

Im surprised more americans dont exhibit that in the UK, as we dont walk round speaking the queens english wearing bowler hats.

[GypsyGoth]

Im surprised more americans dont exhibit that in the UK, as we dont walk round speaking the queens english wearing bowler hats.

Good point. Maybe when they get home they tell all there friends not to come here :laugh:

[Kizzy]

yep if they want rude obnoxious people they can stay at home..:)

[Ammi]

Munchausen syndrome by proxy, is the term for parents/adults causing illness to a child.
Exploding head syndrome ...yep i have thateverytime my kids p me off! lol. Phobias are different to a fear, i stopped a friend of mine from running off a cliff as she thought there was a wasp chasing her...the fear is all consuming you can not fake it.

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They mentioned Paris Syndrome on QI once.

..Stephen Fry is an oracle

[Livia]

I'm sure lots of people do have phobias, like Kizzy friend, and Ammi's thing with blood... but lots of people don’t when they claim they do. They’re a bit scared of spiders so have arachnophobia. I used be terrified of spiders when I was little but my parents didn’t buy into it and now I can pick them up and throw them out now. If you watch I'm A Celebrity get Me Out Of Here, they've ALL got bloody phobias: rats, heights, water, snakes, cockroaches, spiders, the dark, enclosed spaces... gimme a break!

[Ammi]

I'm sure lots of people do have phobias, like Kizzy friend, and Ammi's thing with blood... but lots of people don’t when they claim they do. They’re a bit scared of spiders so have arachnophobia. I used be terrified of spiders when I was little but my parents didn’t buy into it and now I can pick them up and throw them out now. If you watch I'm A Celebrity get Me Out Of Here, they've ALL got bloody phobias: rats, heights, water, snakes, cockroaches, spiders, the dark, enclosed spaces... gimme a break!

..surely you're not suggesting Gillian was faking it...surely not...poor woman..I was completely taken in...........

[Kizzy]

Can you really juggle spiders?....:)

[Ammi]

Can you really juggle spiders?....:)

Livia can do anything.....true story

[Kizzy]

I have a phobia of spider jugglers...

[Livia]

Livia can do anything.....true story

Sarcam Ammi, is the lowest form of wit, they say. I think they're wrong... I like it.

I have a phobia of spider jugglers...

There will be a clinical term for it. Arachnotossaphobia. If it isn't that, it should be.

[Kizzy]

Thats it! thats what i have and its not just aracnotossers...its all tossers! ;)

[Livia]

Thats it! thats what i have and its not just aracnotossers...its all tossers! ;)

You're going to freak out on here then... but I didn't say that, obviously.

[Ammi]

Triskaidekaphobia – Who’s scared of “13″?
What’s your lucky number? Maybe anything but the “13″? Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number “13″, while the fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia.The fear is deeply rooted in numerous cultural and religious believes, often referred to as “evil”. Tetraphobia is the fear of the number 4 in China, Japan, and Korea.

...I love 13

[daniel-lewis-1985]

what is the one called when you get an erection over a car,

OMG i saw that documentary and there was a stain on the car bonnet one morning where the owner had obviously jizzed over it.

Actually it wasnt his motor, he had met up with another car molester and they swapped vehicles for some dry humping.