After research, it turns out there is a mental disorder that can disrupt the perception of reality in ways unimaginable while letting your mind often remains untouched. Here are the abnormalities that will surprise you.
Fregoli syndrome
Imagine, you're arguing with a roommate that sucks about the unpaid rent. To release the pressure, you call a girlfriend, but when called, you hear your girlfriend's roommate called 'dear'. When out of the room, your roommate's mocking of the neighbor's yard.
Because of anger, went to the local bar to drink and was poured by your roommate's. On 10 minutes later, you find yourself caught an annoying roommate.
His condition, syndrome Fregoli make everyone you meet that day to be the same person. These abnormalities appear in different levels of severity. Sometimes, people do not know exactly who to watch, but everyone seemed so familiar.
It feels like waking up in a city filled with high school friend that you rarely talk to. Patients with this syndrome will come to everyone and asked where they first met. Additionally, if this syndrome is another disorder combined, the results can be surprising.
For example, women diagnosed with schizophrenia and erotomania, people love him confidence it could turn out. This woman will believe, actor Leonardo DiCaprio in love with her and communicate with him telepathically and is always posing to see him every day.
Wrong self identification in the mirror
You wake up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom. When not seeing the glass, you discover other people shadow in it.
His condition, sufferers of this disorder suffered brain damage in charge understand the workings of reflection. So, when they saw the glass, the brain says you're looking at a stranger through a window. These abnormalities mostly occur in patients with Alzheimer's. In fact, these people will try to talk with its reflection.
Visual agnosia
When going to the grocery, you realize there's something strange. All products can scream and fight when it entered the shopping cart. Worse, when the cashier, ask your potted plants will pay cash or not.
His condition, agnosia Visual dysfunction caused some areas of the brain's visual processing. The result, you can not correctly identify the goods. Fortunately, this is only a visual disorder. Patients still have the ability to identify objects using other senses.
Somatoparaphrenia
While we were enjoying coffee in the morning, your nose itch, and suddenly there is someone that scratch. Later, these people drink coffee on you. You began to wonder who this person when you live alone. Then, you realize the other hand that does all of this.
Condition, this patient suffered brain damage in the homunculus or 'body map'. The brain is a catalog of all parts of the body and makes you know where all the parts of your body is.
In some cases, experience has body parts of others is very pressing. In fact, the patient will try to cut off the body. In 1997, a man meet with surgeon Robert Smith asked him to amputate his left leg.
Anosognosia
Imagine, you crash and hospitalized. You know nothing but the doctors always prescribe. When the doctor asks you move the legs and felt it was in motion, even the doctor says you can not run again for life.
Condition, this is a delusion disorder suffered by the paralytic who was not paralyzed. According to the study, more than half of patients with hemiplegia (half paralyzed by stroke) suffer from this disorder. We're not discussing the people who are in denial became paralyzed.
Patients were damaged Parietal cortex, a brain area responsible for maintaining awareness on perception, movement and body sensations. Patients with this disorder could not move his limbs not because they can not but because he refused.
Prosopagnosia
Imagine that you walking down the stairs when I got home and below you do not feel confident with whoever is in the house. Everyone becomes a completely alien to you even though you see it every day, even during the years.
Condition, these abnormalities could not recognize faces. There are different levels of disorder. about 2% of the human population has this disorder where the condition is often accompanied by autism spectrum. The disorder is like when you meet someone at a party but when you shake hands with him again difficult to recognize.
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