The 15 WEIRDEST Psychological Disorders

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[@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.

[@maebeenot1023]

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

[@BrayWilliam-jq6wv]

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.

[@mrelephant2283]

That is a Jreg title

[@mycelium_6508]

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.

[@christopherperezkuwahara1891]

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.

[@lizhenson4563]

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.

[@BugHazard]

I've got DID. It was nice to see a respectful overview of it, considering how violently it is portrayed and treated in media. There's a lot of stigma and fear-mongering, and not a lot of good research on it. It's a pretty invisible disorder most of the time, even to the person who actually has it. It's meant to be a quiet way for the brain to cope with trauma, but it can be pretty distressing to the person who has it, whether or not they know what's going on.

[@dandrive3249]

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.

[@drewa6891]

dis-sociative

[@Sp3ctralI]

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[@macnastea7425]

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.

[@arda6140]

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.

[@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 😂

[@coolrockpuppy101]

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[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@skylertheliger932]

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 🙏