Werewolf Syndrome and Other Diseases We Haven’t Heard About

Sleeping Beauty Syndrome

One of the signs of the disease is constant drowsiness with extremely prolonged sleep, from 18 hours or more. Most often, this syndrome occurs in boys at a transitional age, when a teenager can sleep for 20 hours in a row, and when he wakes up, eat food in unlimited quantities.

Such attacks can last from a couple of days to several weeks; it is impossible to wake a person up at this time. There is a known case when a patient slept for 42 days.

Such a disease can be provoked by head injuries, hormonal changes in the body, various infectious diseases and genetic predisposition.

The ravings of the messianic messiah

This disease owes its name to the fact that the patient raves about his divine origin and is one hundred percent sure that he is the very savior of the world.

Often such people imagine themselves to be superheroes and think that they have supernatural powers. Therefore, patients often completely change their usual life, leave their previous job, leave their family and friends, seriously begin to get involved in philosophical tracts and esotericism. A passion for vagrancy awakens in them, sometimes for long solitude, and if they manage to find an interlocutor to whom they can tell about their divine mission, they fall into ecstasy and feel an incredible surge of strength.

Such a disease develops against the background of various brain dysfunctions, which can be caused by both psychological trauma of childhood and acute stress in this period, as well as viral infections in the prenatal period and genetic predisposition.

Werewolf syndrome

This is a congenital defect that manifests itself in abnormal hair growth in an unusual part of the body. They can grow both throughout the body and in one area, regardless of age and gender. The first case of this syndrome was described in the middle of the XNUMXth century and is of a genetic nature.

Wax Doll Syndrome

This is a pathological condition characterized by long-term preservation of one posture. This disease is also often accompanied by an endless repetition of heard words, seen gestures and pronounced negativism, when a person either ignores the appeal to himself, or performs actions opposite to those asked for.

Freezing conditions can last from several hours to months and affect not only the neck muscles, but also the arms and legs. During this period, a person practically ceases to perceive pain and any temperature changes.

Laughing death

One of the symptoms of the disease is unreasonable laughter or an involuntary smile as a result of spasms. The disease spread on the island of New Guinea, where cannibalism flourished, and was infectious.

The incubation period of the disease could be about 30 years, and the duration of the disease could be from 6 months to 2 years.

Auto Brewery Syndrome

This disease belongs to little-known ailments and was first diagnosed in 2014. The patient becomes drunk without drinking alcohol. The thing is that any food eaten in his gastrointestinal tract turns into alcohol. Both children and adults can get sick with it, and the reason is yeast-like fungi, which, under certain conditions, convert sugar into alcohol, causing intestinal fermentation syndrome.

Alien hand syndrome

This is a neuropsychiatric disorder when one or both hands act on their own and against the will of their owner. The syndrome was first described in 1909, today its prevalence is 1 case per 200 people.

The syndrome is manifested by inadequate, more often aggressive behavior of one hand, which can choke, hinder the movements of a healthy hand, attack, involuntarily touch objects or one’s own body. At the same time, if a person wants to put her hand on the table, pick up the phone or turn the page, she will not be able to do this, because she will not obey him.