The 15 WEIRDEST Psychological Disorders

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Diogenes

[SpctralI]

Remember
Psychopath doesn’t mean murderer
Sociopath doesn’t mean criminal
OCD doesn’t mean perfectionist

[arda]

Derealization is fucking trippy, wasn't comfortable when I had it a while back, but looking back it's actually quite interesting how something like that forms. The fact that I wanted to be so distant from my environment that my brain just decided it wanted to leave and make everything feel like it wasn't real.
It's wild what we are capable off, and how we are barely in control of ourselves.

[mycelium_]

Derealization is so dangerous. I used to have it a lot and one time I started viewing my family as random strangers. Sometimes I will be hanging out with them and then my mind will suddenly decide that I don’t actually know these people. They notice it too when it happens. I also used to think of my body as not mine, and my belongings were someone else’s. I sort of become empty, lifeless, with no emotion, doing tasks like I’m on auto pilot.

[macnastea]

I have recently discovered I have “exploding head syndrome”. Caused by stress, I will be in a deep sleep and suddenly a loud noise (explosion, fireworks, window breaking) will happen inside my head but not in real life. Leaves me with anxiety for hours afterwards.

**Edit** almost 2 years later I didn’t realise this comment got so much attention but I was diagnosed with PTSD. Turns out lack of sleep, high anxiety and a traumatic experience will do this to you. Appreciate all the nice comments

[maebeenot]

I have Alice in Wonderland syndrome, the episodes aren’t very distressing as they are confusing, it’s mostly altering to my perception of sounds and time, feeling like everything is very loud and repetitive, or time quickly speeds up or slows down, and it becomes impossible to count seconds. It’s very odd, but neat

[alisaishere]

I have suffered from Truman Disorder since I was a little kid (like before the movie came out). I assumed there were cameras on me at all times filming me, and everybody around me was just in on it. No paid actors, no set, I was the living the original reality tv, but created by scientists to study human behavior. They air some parts of my day with doctors explaining what and why I do certain things or at least their suspicions as to why I do them. My family always brushed it off as me being silly (different times, folks). It was always very present for me, and I just accepted this as my life, but would have bigger flare ups where I would be afraid to do anything because I knew I would get caught.

When I was older and finally in therapy, it took a while to bring this up, because obviously, I didn't want the camera people to know that I know they exist. Even though I knew this wasn't real, I still went through a lot of "but what if it is really?" moments. And treatment took forever, because I lied during most of it. Because if it was real, of course the therapist would want me to think it wasn't real. My thought process was always me trying to play it cautious, because I don't know what kind of consequences I would have if I admitted that I knew about the cameras.

Even though I'm better than before (yeah, I can finally do things like have sex without freaking out about accidentally making a porn tape), I'm still not convinced. Just writing this is making me anxious, because once I hit the button and post this, it's out there. Every day can be a struggle because I know it's not happening, but it's also 100% happening. Nobody can prove me wrong, because they would make sure that I have limited access to information so that I wouldn't ruin this decades long study. So if this is real, sorry about the most recent episodes and how boring it's been. You've seen what I'm going through and I'm exhausted.

[BrayWilliam-jqwv]

Alcohol and cigarettes addiction actually destroyed my life. I could remember several years ago after divorce with my wife which brought me into my disastrous journey on Alcohol and cigarettes. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with cptsd. Not until a friend recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.

[lizhenson]

Man I thought everyone constantly questioned their own existence. I constantly have these anxiety attacks where I think I'm fake and everything else is fake and I don't actually exist. I thought it was normal this whole time.

[robotpaperscissors]

I was not expecting to see depersonalization/ derealization here, it’s something I deal with daily. Thank you for explaining it so well and in a way that didn’t make me feel crazy.

[christopherperezkuwahara]

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is surprisingly common. In my case it was first induced by a fever I had as a child. I used to often lose my perception of size, and it actually felt incredible when I experienced the illusion that my own body was undoubtedly as large as a continent or a planet.

[coolrockpuppy]

Time stamps:
15.)Diogenes Syndrome 2:55

14.)Conversion Disorder 3:40

13.)Jerusalem Syndrome 4:16

12.)Visual Agnosia 4:49

5:22

10.)Truman disorder 5:51

9.)Apotemnophilia 6:27

8.)Walking Corpse Syndrome 6:48

7.)Alice And Wonderland Syndrome 7:11

6.)Dissociative Identity Disorder 7:33

5.)Boanthropy 8:10

4.)Clinical Lycanthropy 8:34

3.)Capgras delusion 8:52

2.)Phantom Pregnancies 9:18

1.)Koro syndrome 9:38

[Mmmsandwich]

I actually have Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. I’ve had it since I was little but it’s not as common in my adulthood luckily. It’s quite the experience and trying to talk about it with others as a teenager made me feel like I was going crazy 😂

[coffeenurse]

Derealisation is something I live with. My health team and I have never been able to identify what in my life caused it, which makes me feel like I always have to justify it or question it. So already, I never feel quite attached to my reality, and then I question that feeling even more because we don't know what causes it. Just stuck in a gaslighting cycle within myself!

[dandrive]

I knew someone with lycanthropy disorder. He also believed he worked in the Navy despite being 15. Dude also kept a gun in his book bag just in case of a shooting at school. he actually pulled it on me during a conversation over the name of the song Chop Suey by System of a Down. He was arrested. He was also the councilors son which is ironic.

[copiasratz]

alice in wonderland syndrome is such an odd disorder. i was on call with a friend when they experienced AWS, and they described it as "feeling like they're the size of a thimble" and "time simply didn't exist". from a psychology and psych student perspective it's rather fascinating.

[nathanfowler]

Depersonalization and derealization are so much more common that you’d think. It’s usually a response to trauma as the brains last ditch effort to separate itself from the threat of danger. My gf has had several episodes of this and it’s very surreal every time it happens. The brain is such a fragile but complex thing.

[crimsonr]

Derealization feels like everything is in liminal space. It’s so odd to observe, especially when you’re seeing it in places you’ve been at for years, and it somehow looks and feels different, even though nothing has changed. It can feel so unsettling.

[skylertheliger]

Been struggling with clinical lycanthropy for years, it's embarrassing and frightening constantly questioning not who you are, but what you are and what type of monster you may become at any given time in the night. It's been going on for a long while but I'll be able to get long term therapy sometime soon though. God bless whoever reads this 🙏

[bry]

I happen to have conversion disorder and I really appreciate you bringing more attention to it. I didn’t know about it until I was diagnosed with it and many many people don’t understand before I explain it.

[alex-otxr]

Derealization is like thinking you're in the matrix. You don't know anything outside reality but you know that it isn't actually real. At times when you feel extremely stressed it feels like someone is trying to unplug you from the matrix, everything gets foggy and kind of numb. It's like experiencing all the characteristics of life without experiencing life itself.