The human spirit never ceases to amaze us. There are syndromes as rare as they are curious: they look more like a joke than anything else. For the curious, here we will show you some of the most amazing.
What is a syndrome? It is a set of symptoms and signs that occur to a person at any given time and in particular circumstances.
- This can happen to people who already have a medical history; who have already suffered from mental disorders; when they visit Jerusalem.
- They have certain psychotic illusions and believe they are certain biblical characters.
- Begin to dress.
- Sing hymns.
- Recite Bible verses.
- And even preach in public.
- 40 people with this syndrome.
This syndrome occurs exclusively in Papua New Guinea. It is a language disorder that occurs to men between the age of 30 and 35 who start speaking strangely. The locals started shouting “a savage, he’s a savage. “So he makes small flights and after a few weeks he returns home as if nothing.
This syndrome occurs exclusively in China, India and Southeast Asia, the subject believes that their sex shrinks and gradually enters their abdomen, is accompanied by great anxiety, panic attacks and sometimes paranoid schizophrenia, can also affect women who think their vulva, breasts or nipples shrink. This syndrome is considered of cultural origin. In 1967, there was an epidemic in Singapore: men believed their penises had been stolen!
It is considered a sexual neurosis because the individual becomes obsessed because he thinks he is losing sperm involuntarily; like the previous syndrome, it affects men in Southeast Asia and is fundamentally cultural; this usually happens with men who have recently gone through a migration process or when they have to go home.
This only happens with Japanese tourists: when they contemplate the city of Paris, they enter a kind of depression, of the thousands of Japanese tourists who visit Paris every year, a dozen tourists suffer from this syndrome, it is a kind of cultural shock that they experience. when they realize the difference between the ideal image they had of the city through films like “Amélie Poulain’s Fabulous Fate?”and the lively and lively city they know. Everything related to this syndrome is so curious that the Embassy of Japan has a 24-hour telephone line available to cater to these tourists.
It is also called parasitic delirium, infestation delirium or parasitosis. These people believe the house is infested and may even suffer punctures and skin irritation. A curious fact is that many patients arrive at the doctor’s office with a box of matches and say they have brought a sample of the insect. When they open the box, the doctor is perplexed because there is only one stuffed animal.
Funny, isn’t the human mind really full of secrets and mysteries?
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