14 Modern Mental Disorders That Affect Millions of People

Psychologically healthy people are those who can adapt to the environment and successfully solve different everyday problems. If the individual is not able to do this, it is possible that he has some kind of disorder. And one in five people in the world face some disorder, according to statistics.

O awesome.club likes health research. So he found some strange and not so obvious mental disorders.

A person with the social phobia known as taijin kyofusho is afraid of offending others. Often, this disorder is accompanied by low self-esteem and the patient fears offending people with their supposed bad appearance – a physical disability, stuttering or even a simple redness of the face, for example. These people avoid contact with strangers and hardly go out into the street.

They usually have headaches for no reason, insomnia and fatigue. In addition, this type of disorder is more common among young people.

A person who has this type of syndrome believes that all his thoughts are transmitted to other people and that these people can freely pick them up. This condition may be related to a dissociative personality disorder and is explained by the fact that several “people” live inside the patient’s head.

This same disorder can occur in schizophrenia. In these situations, the patient also has the conviction that he is capable of reading and listening to the thoughts of those around him.

The original name of this disorder in French even sounds beautiful: “folie à deux” – something like “madness for two”, in free translation. The symptom is very simple: two or more people suffer the same delusional hallucination. Such patients have an implicit division of roles: one of them is necessarily an indisputable authority for the other.

Generally, the delusion is supported by the belief of those involved. Therefore, the treatment is quite simple: just separate the group of patients and break any link between them.

A situation where male jealousy goes beyond reasonable limits. Convincing such a person that no one is deceiving him is impossible. No suspicion has real evidence. Mistrust is based solely on the fantasies and complexes of the person affected by the syndrome.

This problem often manifests itself in lighter ways and gains more strength with alcohol consumption. A man with this disorder may frequently check on a woman’s loyalty, follow her around, and in moments of anger may even go so far as to resort to physical aggression.

This syndrome makes people think they have underdeveloped muscles. The person can literally live in the gym and abuse different supplements that contain proteins, all to develop muscles that are supposedly weak. Among the additional features, we can highlight the following:

Frequent self-admiration in the mirror; Hysteria attacks if the person cannot go to the gym or miss a workout; Willingness to use health-compromising drugs to build muscle.

Muscle dysmorphia occurs four times more often in men. And, if before it only affected athletes, now, with the popularization of the cult of the body and health and training blogs, it also affects ordinary people. Around 55% of young people who are dissatisfied with their sports training are in the risk group.

This problem has been very little studied and the exact reasons for its manifestation are also unknown. As a rule, it affects people after severe head injuries or a stroke. Upon awakening, people simply start speaking their native language with a foreign accent. The accent may even be completely unknown to them — that is, they have had no previous contact with the language. And it is impossible to eliminate the problem.

It is estimated that there are around 60 cases of foreign accent syndrome in the world. In Brazil, a few years ago, a singer presented this disorder.

Periodically, a person with this syndrome feels noises inside his head, which gradually increase. When the volume reaches its highest point, the patient hears a loud booming sound. Then there is a kind of bright flash before your eyes. Attacks often occur at night.

Unfortunately, there is still little information about the causes of this disorder. There isn’t even a right treatment.

This mental disorder affects people who love books. Their love is so great that they can buy all copies of certain authors, spend their last savings on rare editions and even borrow money for this purpose. In some cases, they break the law to obtain the desired book.

With trichotillomania, a person pulls out hair on his own body: on the head, legs, armpits, and any other area. As a result, bald spots form in these places. Perhaps the disease is genetically caused. Scientists have discovered that all people with this disorder have the same damaged gene.

This is a disorder that occurs twice as often in women. The problem can be temporal and appear only in contexts of severe stress, whenever the person’s psyche as a whole is unstable. Treatment methods are traditional: psychotherapy and medication.

People with this disorder experience the painful feeling that some parts of their body are unnecessary and interfere with their daily lives. The organs on which this perception falls most often are the arms and legs. Patients solve the problem by tying the “unnecessary” end tightly. In severe cases, they try to amputate the “unnecessary” organ or look for specialists who are willing to do such a procedure for money. After the amputation, these same patients ensure that life returns to normal.

This disorder affects women who have not yet had sexual experience. In rare cases, men also suffer from the problem.

The main symptom of the disorder is the panic of passing a man. The manifestation of the syndrome does not necessarily depend on a bad experience in contact with men.

Another name for this disorder is pathological lying. The desire to lie has no intrinsic motivation other than the desire to lie. Unlike skilled liars, people with this disorder readily admit to lying if caught.

Mythomania has 3 important distinguishing features:

In the invented story there is always a bit of truth; In all the stories, the liar turns out to be a hero of sorts; Lying cannot be provoked without a reason; it is, so to speak, completely sincere.

Many psychiatrists believe that the causes of the disorder are related to low self-esteem and insecurity. At the beginning of the century, scientists discovered that the brain of a pathological liar is different from that of a healthy person. In liars, the number of neurons is smaller, but there are more nerve fibers.

People with this disorder are often self-harming but do not have suicidal intent. It is believed that they do this to repress strong emotions, as self-injury is often present in people who have faced certain types of violence: war veterans, members of minorities, detainees, etc.

One of the most frequent signs of this disorder (named after two psychiatrists) is the automatism of actions and a certain alienation — a situation in which the patient seems to be observing himself from the outside while performing these actions. Another symptom is the frequent meaningless pronouncing of thoughts aloud.

In severe forms, the patient believes that he is not capable of experiencing emotions for himself. The person starts to believe that someone is controlling him. Therefore, statements such as “they make me laugh” or “they make me sad” are possible without a clear identification of who “they” are. These symptoms are often associated with cases of schizophrenia.

In any case, as strange as these disorders may seem, they should be treated only with the help of professionals, just like any other disorder.

There is the common idea that nobody is totally “normal” and that we should all be in psychotherapy. what do you think about?