You may have heard of Multiple Personality Disorder or even Alice In Wonderland Syndrome. But did you know there are several other mysterious mental disorders the human brain is capable of? The mind is an amazing, complex and mysterious thing.
1. Multiple Personality Disorder
Multiple personality disorder is a disorder that divides someone's personality into many parts - several different personalitiesin one body. These personalities may have different ages, nationalities, genders, temperaments and mental abilities. The cause is often severe emotional trauma during childhood. A child begins to perceive what is happening to them as if it were happening to someone else.
2. Quasimodo Syndrome
Quasimodo syndrome, also known as body dysmorphic disorder, is characterized by obsessive thoughts about a physical defect that either does not exist or is highly exaggerated. Patients with this disorder may constantly look in the mirror, trying to find an angle at which the defect isn't visible. They may refuse to have their picture taken due to low self-esteem. This mental disorder can be extremely dangerous and end up effecting relationships.3. Erotomania
Someone who is suffering from erotomania is sure that someone else is in love with them. This is typically someone of a higher social status, such as a celebrity. An erotomania patient believes that their imaginary admirer shows love for them through secret signals, special signs and coded messages in the media.4. Capgras Delusion
This disorder causes a person to believe that someone close to them, or even they themselves, have been replaced by a doppelganger. Someone who suffers from capgras delusion may claim that immoral actions were actually committed by their doppelganger who looks just like them. Capgras delusion is often accompanied by schizophrenia.
5. Paraphrenia
Paraphrenia combines paranoid delusions with grandiosity. Patients with paraphrenia experience delusional ideas that are accompanied by false memories. They may consider themselves to be immortal, have a divine origin or be rulers of the world.6. Fregoli Delusion
This disorder is the opposite of capgrass delusion. Someone suffering from fregoli delusion believes that people close to them are hiding under masks to look like strangers. They believe these people are constantly changing their appearance to secretly follow them.7. Alice In Wonderland Syndrome
Someone who is suffering from this syndrome experiences a change in perception of surrounding objects and space. They may perceive things as much smaller or larger, including their own body. The patients' eyes and other senses are undamaged. This syndrome occurs in the mind.
