Top Five WEIRDEST Mental Health Conditions.

These are five of the strangest mental health conditions that I’ve encountered over my 30 years of working as a psychiatrist.

Fregoli syndrome is where a person believes that someone is out to get them and they can change their appearance or take over the bodies of other people.

Koro is the belief that your penis is shrinking and being drawn back into your body.

Ekbom’s syndrome is a delusional disorder characterised by the unshakeable belief that you are infected or infested with some kind of parasite - worms, insects, bacteria, even mice. They can be on your skin, in your skin or even eating away at your internal organs.

Exploding head syndrome is sleep disorder in which people hear a loud or frightening noise like a thunderclap or gunshot just as they are falling asleep

Diogenes Syndrome is a severe mental disorder in which people withdraw from the world, neglect themselves and live in extreme squalor, usually with a total lack of concern at how they are living.
If you want to know more about any of these conditions please click onto my channel where there are videos dealing with each disorder separately.

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