Strange diseases that exist in the reality of some people’s lives
Right now, there are people living on this planet who are suffering from some of the rarest and strangest diseases and are helplessly searching for a way to cure them.
The interesting thing is that patients with these diseases never suffer from physical problems. In fact, it is difficult to convince them that their problem is not real at all and is a creation of their own mind, so there is no cure for it.
12 of the strangest diseases in the world
1. Parasitic delusion
This disease is completely made up of the mind and people with this disease have sensations such as itching and pain and other symptoms of the parasite without any real problem. They feel that the parasite is growing and moving under their skin and sometimes they also get infections due to unnecessary and excessive scratching. The cause of this disease is the use of harmful drugs.
2. Werewolf Syndrome
Lycanthropy is another name for this syndrome, which, of course, has no real nature or existence. Patients with this syndrome strongly claim that they are turning into wolves. In fact, most of these patients suffer from this delusion due to excessive consumption of drugs and foods harmful to the mind and completely believe that they are turning into animals. For this reason, their voices and behavior become like animals, while their bodies remain completely human.
3. Mass Hysteria
You are definitely familiar with the name hysteria or have heard this name more often in the news. For example, in a certain country, a number of people in a school suddenly showed strange behavior and started biting each other. These people thought that the more they bit each other, the easier they would cope with problems.
This can happen anywhere in the world, and it is completely subjective and self-made. In this disease, people suddenly decide to imitate each other’s wrong and strange habits and pass it on to others.
4. Hypochondriac Syndrome
Hypochondriac or hypochondriasis is a persistent fear of having a serious illness. It is not surprising because this is the condition of people who constantly think that they are sick, but no doctor can diagnose their illness. Hypochondriac or hypochondriac in psychology and psychiatry is a person who, despite having a healthy body, thinks that they are sick and always complains about their pain. The doctor does not diagnose any type of disease when dealing with these people and conducting complete examinations, but the person himself is sure of his serious and even fatal illness and tries to treat himself with great stress. For this reason, this disease is also called imaginary patient disorder or syndrome.
This disease may have its roots in the childhood of these people. Research shows that most of these people suffered from some illnesses in childhood and their families did not pay enough attention to them, as a result of which these people face severe attention deficits.
5. Lekura
In this disease, the person exhibits completely strange behavior, in fact, this behavior becomes so unknown that we will no longer be able to understand any of the sentences of these patients. On the other hand, physical problems such as dizziness and shortness of breath also occur for these people, these people exhibit states similar to madness; one of the reasons for this is the imbalance of nutrients in the body, which can disrupt their brain function.
6. Desire to drink blood
A group of people in the world really think they are vampires. These people are extremely sensitive to sunlight, are pale, and think that they will find peace by drinking blood.
Fortunately, thanks to the advancement of technology, these people can be identified and treated before they do anything special. The disease of these people is such that it also affects their body due to mental thoughts and they gradually become anemic.
7. Taijin Kyofushu
This syndrome can also be considered a severe self-doubt syndrome. Patients with this syndrome feel extremely embarrassed and ashamed of their current appearance and body. They are also completely dissatisfied with their voice, smell and appearance and are afraid to show it to others.
When these people have to interact with others, they experience conditions such as increased heart rate, shortness of breath, heavy sweating and souring, this is more common among Japanese people than in other parts of the world.
8. Morgellons
Morgellons is a mental illness in which the patient feels very itchy for no reason. In fact, the person, feeling a burning sensation all over his body, states that there are a bunch of ants living under his skin, so he tries to get rid of them by scratching.
The sick person is constantly scratching himself, which is why he must be treated as soon as possible to prevent infection. If the disease is severe, it progresses to the point that the person tries to remove the ants from his skin by manipulating the wounds caused by itching.
9. Hemolakria
In the disease of hemolakria, blood flows from the person’s eyes instead of tears. The first time was a 15-year-old girl named Calvino Inman from Rockwood, Tennessee, USA, while crying, she noticed that blood was coming from her eyes instead of tears when she looked in the mirror. She was terrified and thought she was dying. Doctors examined his eyes with a CT scan, MRI, and ultrasound, but all tests were completely normal. The causes of this rare condition include severe head injury or trauma, a tumor of the tear glands, and a bacterial eye infection.
10. Hirsutism
There is a condition called hirsutism, or excessive hair growth, in which women develop fine, fine hair. The condition is caused by increased levels of androgens (male sex hormones) after puberty. In the past, families would sell girls with this condition, who had facial hair and beards, to circuses, but today the condition is treated with hormone therapy.
11. Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome
Infants with Progeria Syndrome, or HGPS, are born with an old appearance due to a mutation in the LMNA gene. In this disease, the mutated LMNA gene causes a defect in the lamin A protein, which leads to instability of the cell nucleus and, as a result, premature aging. Progeria is a Greek word meaning “premature aging.”
Growth failure, loss of body fat and skin and hair, wrinkled skin with an old-looking appearance, joint stiffness, hip dislocation, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, and stroke are some of the symptoms of this disease in childhood.
People with Progeria live to be 14 years old and die at this age due to heart disease. Another type of this disease that appears in late adolescence is Werns syndrome or “adult progeria,” where the affected person does not live beyond 45 years.
12. Ability to attract metal objects
Some people have the ability to attract metal objects and other objects such as plastic, wood, glass and non-magnetic metals such as brass and aluminum. The reason for their ability to attract them is the sticky property of their skin.
The most famous people whose skin has the ability to attract objects are Evrid Elchiev from Georgia, two Serbian cousins named David Petrovic and Luka Lukic, Brenda Allison from England, who was nicknamed the magnetic person.
