Syndrome Sufferers facts
While investigating facts about Famous Marfan Syndrome Sufferers and Famous Asperger's Syndrome Sufferers, I found out little known, but curios details like:
A mother suffers from hyperlactation syndrome, an over production of breastmilk. Instead of dumping her milk she decided to donate them. She spends 4-5 hours each day pumping milk and in two years she has donated 609 gallons of breastmilk, most going to feeding premature babies.
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Domesticated llamas that are given too much attention by humans can suffer from a psychological disorder called Berserk Llama Syndrome, where the llamas view their handlers as fellow llamas, and actually become more violent and aggressive towards them
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In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 50 of the best facts about Imposter Syndrome Sufferers and Guillain Barre Syndrome Sufferers I managed to collect.
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'Paris Syndrome ' where tourists suffer psychological distress or shock when the city does not live up th their expectations. It is common with Japanese tourists.
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Walking Corpse Syndrome" is a mental condition in which sufferers believe they are missing internal organs, have no blood, or that they are dead outright. PET scans of a patient showed he exhibited brain activity similar to someone asleep or under anaesthesia
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There is a genetic disorder that causes a constant feeling of starvation. Left unchecked, sufferers of Prader-Willi Syndrome can eat until their stomachs rupture.
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There is a disease called "Stone Man Syndrome" which causes soft tissues to heal as bone, leading to sufferers losing mobility as the disease progresses.
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Dogs can suffer under the "Happy Tail Syndrome", when they wag their tails out of happiness so hard and often that it gets injured
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In 2005 Tony Nicklinson suffered a stroke which left him completely paralysed (locked-in syndrome). He fought a legal battle for a right to assisted suicide, but lost. On learning the outcome of his appeal, he refused to eat, contracted pneumonia, deteriorated rapidly and died a week later.
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About "refeeding syndrome". Where many WW2 prisoners suffering from starvation died after over eating after release at the end of the war.
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The Medical Student Syndrome is a condition experienced by med students who perceive they are suffering from the disease they are studying
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Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome, a form of OCD that compels those suffering from it to constantly correct others' grammar.
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Hedgehogs can suffer from a rare disease called "balloon syndrome," which causes them to inflate like a beach ball.
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About Sunflower syndrome. A condition that compels those who suffer from it to turn toward bright light and wave one hand, fingers spread, in front of their eyes. It’s usually the same hand every time.
"Alice in Wonderland Syndrome" in which patients have visual hallucinations in which they see objects around them distorted in size and shape. Lewis Carroll is thought to have suffered from it while he wrote his novels. - source
A rare mental illness, known as Walking Corpse Syndrome in which the suffer has the delusion they are dead. 55% also hold delusions of immortality, such as Mademoiselle X, who believed she didn't need to eat and died of starvation in the 1880's. - source
Some people in India fail to take anti-rabies medication in time due to puppy-pregnancy syndrome. People suffering from this condition believe that shortly after being bitten by a dog, puppies are conceived within their abdomen.
A disease known as 'Stone Man Syndrome", a connective tissue disorder where the sufferer's damaged muscle is slowly replaced by bone. - source
The condition of androgen insensitivity syndrome is typically diagnosed when?
"acquired savant syndrome," which (for example) allowed a man who suffered a head injury to spontaneously become an expert pianist
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90% of people who spend 3 or more hours a day on the computer, will suffer Computer Vision Syndrome (Under the "Prevalence" section)
As many as 1/3 of people who lose their vision can suffer vivid, cartoonish hallucinations in a condition known as Charles Bonnet Syndrome.
Jerusalem Syndrome, a religious psychosis that affects some visitors to the holy city. Sufferers are known to wear togas made from hotel bedsheets, shout verses from the Bible, and deliver public sermons at holy places throughout the city. The condition has been known since the Middle Ages.
There are over 20,000 adults suffering from congenital rubella syndrome in the USA after their mums caught Rubella in the 60s. They suffer deafness, blindness and neurological problems.
You could die of heartbreak and it's called Takotsubo Syndrome. Most sufferers are elderly women.