inside your skull is one of the greatest mysteries of the universe your brain despite billions of dollars in research and countless hours spent investigating the phenomena of the human mind we still know very little what is the self is there a consciousness is there a reality outside of our brain the list goes on thankfully we rarely have to really ask ourselves about these topics but some people have to live with these questions day in and day out for sufferers of delusions agnosias obsessions and inexplicable desires what it means to be oneself and to navigate a
stable world has been entirely corrupted historically treated as sideshow attractions those with severe psychological issues have always been considered as reminders of the fragility and oddity that is the human mind however recent shifts in discourse has viewed those afflicted with these issues with a greater level of sympathy this video will recount 15 of the strangest psychological issues however i would also like to remind everyone that these are real issues suffered by real people although the disorders may be at times humorous this does not excuse crude jokes about the conditions themselves this video should function not
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withdraw socially and rarely attend to their hygiene unfortunately these individuals rarely know of their condition and are only brought to treatment after catching pneumonia or a serious accident at 14 there is conversion disorder those suffering display serious neurological symptoms such as blindness paralysis deafness or epileptic seizures however upon serious medical examination they show no signs of any physical cause to their disorder the cause is typically attributed to serious trauma or stressors unfortunately the sufferer is entirely unaware of the stressor and is usually adamant that the issue is neurological hence treatment often involves an illusory rehabilitation
program that would typically be used for those actually suffering from these afflictions at 13 we have jerusalem syndrome this is an acute psychotic state in which an individual identifies themselves as a biblical character the most common form of this syndrome is when a previously mentally stable person visits jerusalem and soon enters into a state of religious delusion however there is some controversy as to whether this form of the syndrome can be verified interestingly jerusalem averages 100 cases per year and thankfully the syndrome typically disappears after a short period of time at 12 there is visual
agnosia most famous in oliver sacks the man who mistook his wife for a hat this disorder is characterized by an inability to recognize or make sense of certain objects despite technically seeing them here we see the main difference between sensing something and perceiving something whereas those with visual agnosia can see the object they are unable to interpret the object in an extreme example sax recounts the case of a man who quite literally identified his wife as a floating hat in 11th place we have depersonalization and derealization most of us have likely learned to detach from
our environment or sense of self during periods of stress however this disorder is far more constant and manifests as feeling as if one is not attached to themselves or the environment around them sufferers may feel like they are not real or that nothing is real objects may appear colorless or flat they may question their own existence at 10th we have truman disorder if you haven't seen the movie the truman show it's about truman a man who's living a perfectly normal life except one thing his entire life is a tv show and everyone he knows including
his wife and best friend are all paid actors who are in on it everyone knows except him strangely some who have watched the film began to grow paranoid that their own lives are being watched by millions psychiatrists argue that the disorder is an attempt for the patient to explain why the world may suddenly change in an inexplicable way this disorder may simply be a variant of schizophrenia at ninth there is a podemonophilia the desire to mutilate parts of the body displaying similar symptoms to ocd the disorder is characterized by an obsession to remove a limb
although the desire may stem from some sort of sexual origins some cases reveal that the obsession may also be wrapped up in a sense of identity in eighth place we have walking corpse syndrome also known as crotard syndrome the symptoms can include severe social withdrawal over refusal to eat and hearing voices from the dead telling them that they have died in severe instances individuals will ask to be taken to the morgue the causes typically involved more severe underlying medical issues in seventh place we have alice in wonderland syndrome somewhat similar to derealization disorder the patient
feels as if they are in a dreamlike state they experience an altered perception of their own body image time and space itself they may hallucinate and experience an altered sense of speed when moving the syndrome is named after the psychedelic lewis carroll book at sixth we have dissociative identity disorder historically termed multiple personality disorder the id is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct identities there is typically a host identity which is the identity most frequently encountered and carries the person's legal name and the alter identity interestingly the identities can be aware of
each other or be entirely unaware the cause is thought to be due to childhood trauma but a more recent sociocognitive theory suggests that clinicians inadvertent suggestibility has caused did in fifth place we have philanthropy the belief that one is a cow or ox the sufferer will typically act out being a cow by munching on grass and roaming around in a field interestingly this disorder appears to come up in the bible in which a boastful king goes insane and lives like a cow for seven years what could be stranger than thinking you're a cow in fourth
place we have clinical lycanthropy in which the sufferer believes themselves to be a werewolf symptoms can include the pairing of somatosensory aberrations such as believing oneself to be growing hair and strange thoughts such as the belief that one is about to transform into a werewolf at third place we have cop cross delusion typically the patient becomes convinced that a family member or somebody close has been replaced by an imposter this leads to extreme distress and the patient may actually act out violently against their own family it is thought to be caused by a miscommunication between
the visual cortex which identifies people and the striate which attaches an emotional response to identification at second place there is the phenomenon of phantom pregnancies the patient who is often obsessively terrified of becoming pregnant will suddenly experience an end to their periods cravings cramps and may even have their belly grow queen mary tudor is thought to be an historical example of this disorder finally in first place there is coro syndrome largely present in asian societies and typically onset in epidemics coral syndrome is characterized by an obsessive fear that one's genitals are shrinking or retracting within
the body and that the end of this process will lead to death mass hysteria of genital shrinkage has also been reported in africa and europe sufferers may use a clamping device to relieve themselves of their anxiety although this will likely result in hospitalization thank you for watching [Music] you
