7 Strange Mental Disorders
A1.
Capgras delusion theory - Being convinced that a friend or family
member has been kidnapped and replaced by an identical-looking impostor.
A2.
Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome (or Todd’s syndrome) - A
temporary condition caused by migraines, brain tumors or psychoactive drugs. It
is a form of perceptual distortion where the individual thinks they have grown
in size or that other people, animals and objects have shrunk in size.
A3.
Celebriphilia - An overwhelming obsession and desire to have a
romantic relationship with a celebrity.
A4.
Hybristophilia -Being sexually aroused by, or falling in love
with, someone who has committed a heinous crime.
A5.
Cotard’s syndrome or walking corpse syndrome –
Believing you are dead and putrefying, or have lost all your blood, or have no
internal organs.
A6.
Reduplicative paramnesia – An unusual delusion where the person
believes that a building has been relocated without their knowledge, or exists
in two places or dimensions at the same time.
A7.
Pica – A rare eating disorder where the person believes that
non-edible items are, in fact, edible. Hence, they start eating items like
rocks, hair, plastic and dirt.
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