Diseases and Disorders

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Diseases:

1. Cancer

• lung cancer
• bone cancer
• esophaegeal cancer
• leukemia
• brain cancer
• etc

2. Diabetes

3. It's just a small list but actually there are diseases: http://listverse.com/2007/10/04/top-10-incurable-diseases/

4. Lou Gehring-disorder/syndrom / ALS

This is a disease that attacks the nerves and slowly weakens the muscles. Paralysis is one of its symptons. This disease isn't curable. The patient usually has a lifespan of 3-5 years left. The usual trigger for death is a lung inflammation.

5. Polio/Poliomyelitis

This is a highly contagious viral infection that can lead to paralysis, breathing problems, or even death.

6. Glaucoma

Glaucoma describes a disease where the patient patient loses their vision. There are two kinds of glaucoma:
- Closed-Angled Glaucoma: This happens suddenly and is very painful. Patients often go to a doctor early enough that the disease can be cured before severe damage occurs.
- Open-Angled Glaucoma: This kind is the chronic way of the disease. In this case, the patients often only noticed their disease when it had already caused severe damages.

Disorders:

1. Satyriasis

The patient is addicted to .

2. Multiple Personality Disorder / Dissociative Identity Disorder

The patient has more than just one personality and that personality can change quickly. Amnesia is one of the symptoms of MPD.

3. Schizoprenia

The patient hears voices (mostly male ones) who will tell him or her things. Usually those things are really bad things. More than one patient has already tried and succeeded in taking his life.

4. Borderline Syndrom

The patient barely has interpersonal contacts. He also has social problems.

5. Chronic Depression

6. Disillusionment

When a patient has 'Disillusionment' he or she thinks that he/she is maybe in a different time or someone else. Maybe that person thinks that the WW2 is still going on and he/she needs to fight or he/she is the president of the US and wants to be taken away from where he/she is right now and instead go to Washington DC...

7. Child Mind

The mind's capacity came to a stand at some point. The person's mind will never reach the level of a grown up.

8. Pyromaniac

The patient will try to inflame a fire at anytime possible.

9. Turrets Syndrom

The patient is not able to comunicate normally, especially not when he/she is upset. Curses and insults will leave his/ more often than what is normal and he/she will need to learn to speak properly without using those curses and insults.

10. Prognosia / Face Blindness

The patient can't recognize people by their faces. This has been found out when someone not only couldn't recognize the nurses in a hospital but the family not as well. This 'disease' can also be bequested.

11. Anxiety Disorder

The patient is afraid of objects and/or situations. When he/she gets into a situation like that or sees something that makes him/her be afraid, a panic attack might develope. Usually those fears are something that other people couldn't understand completely because they don't or only barely are afraid of those things.

12. Gerascophobia

This is the fear of getting old.

13. Paranoia

When someone thinks for example 'Everyone's out to get me!' he/she is paranoid. Another thing might be if an accident or anything else that's bad happens, that person will think in a paranoid way as well and think that it happened because of himself/herslef and that something bad will happen to him/her soon as well...

14. Sadism

The patient is really sadistic, even though it might not always be meant like that.

15. PTSD / Posttraumatic stress disorder

It is a severe condition that may develop after a person is exposed to one or more traumatic events, such as ual assault, serious injury or the threat of death. The diagnosis may be given when a group of symptoms such as disturbing recurring flashbacks, avoidance or numbing of memories of the event, and hyperarousal (high levels of anxiety) continue for more than a month after the traumatic event. Most people who experience a traumatizing event will not develop PTSD. However, because women are more likely to experience more high impact trauma, they are more likely to develop PTSD than men. Children are less likely to experience PTSD after trauma than adults, especially if they are under 10 years of age.
(Yes, it is copied from wikipedia, don't ask. But I had no idea how else to write it down.)
addition: But children can also get PTSD when they're under 10 when they have been abused several times or have had a different traumatic experience.

16. Bipolar Disorder

17. Bulimia

The patient usully eats normally, just a bit less than others. He or she isn't content with his body and tries to weight less, that's why that person eats less. But sometimes the patient will have eating attacks where they will eat a whole lot and force themselves to vomit afterwards, not wanting to have those 'extra calories'.

18. Anorexia Nervosa

The person will fast and, if at all, eat small portions. It's more controlled than bulimia. The patient will also exercise a lot to burn calories.

Blumia and Anorexia Nervosa: The person thinks that he/she is fat or at least weights too much. Even when they're terribly thin they will still think like that and see it like that in their mirror. Around 70% of bulimics and 50% of people with Anorexia Nervosa have a underlying mental illness

19. ADHD/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a chronic condition that affects millions of children and often persists into adulthood. ADHD includes a combination of problems, such as difficulty sustaining attention, hyperactivity and impulsive behavior.
Children with ADHD also may struggle with low self-esteem, troubled relationships and poor performance in school. Symptoms sometimes lessen with age. However, some people never completely outgrow their ADHD symptoms. But they can learn strategies to be successful.

20. Hypochondriasis/hypochondria

Quite often it is refered to as a 'health phobia' which involves the patient worrying about having a serious illness, excessive worrying about their health even though there is no real medical condition. They become alarmed of even the slightest physical symptom in their bodies and are convinced they are about to become sick or have health problems.

21. Depersonalisation Disorder/DPD

Depersonalization disorder occurs when you persistently or repeatedly have a sense that things around you aren't real, or when you have the feeling that you're observing yourself from outside your body. Feelings of depersonalization can be very disturbing and may feel like you're losing your grip on reality or living in a dream. Many people have a passing experience of depersonalization at some point. But when feelings of depersonalization keep occurring, or never completely go away, it's considered depersonalization disorder. Depersonalization disorder is more common in people who've had traumatic experiences.

22. Recurrent Brief Depression/RBD

It's characterized by intermittent depressive episodes occuring between approx. 6-12 times per year, over at least one year or more and each episode fills the criteria for major depressive episodes. People with RBD have episodes that are severe with suicidal ideation and impared function. A side effect of the disorder is anxiety and increased irritability.

23. Major Depressive Disorder/MDD

It's characterized by intermittent depressive episodes occuring between approx. 6-12 times per year, over at least one year or more and each episode fills the criteria for major depressive episodes. People with MDD have episodes that are severe with suicidal ideation and impared function. A side effect of the disorder is anxiety and increased irrtability.

The main difference between RBD and recurring Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is the length of time that the depressive episodes last for; With MDD the usual length of an episode is more than 14 days at a time; with RBD it's less than that, closer to around 2-4 days.

24. Psychosis

It is an abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality". People suffering from psychosis are described as psychotic. Psychosis is the term given to the more severe forms of psychiatric disorder, during which hallucinations and/or delusions, violence and impaired insight may occur.

25. e

A patient that is ic is usually an adult who likes young children more than they should.

26. Autism

27. Panic Attack

28. Emotional Instability

The patient reacts to his impulses and might not be able to control them at all. He or she gets into fights easier because of his impulsive reactions. But the patient also tends to have mental breakdowns more easily than other people.
Types: aggressive type; Borderline-type

29. Asperger Syndrom

The Asperger Syndrom is a form of Autism and can show through starting at the age of 4. It is a form of abnormal developement and effects the communication and the inter-communicational signs like pauses, laughing, fillers, intonation and volume. The affected person might not be able to sense any of those signs or create them himself/herself.
Besides those negative aspects, the Asperger Syndrom also has some positive aspects: the patient usually is very skilled in the interests he has and can show very high intelligence. That is the reason why the patients aren't always said to have a disorder, might even thought to be 'normal'.

30. Cotard Delusion/Contard Syndrom/Walking Corpse Syndrom

It is a rare mental disorder in which people hold a delusional belief that they are dead (either figuratively or literally), do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs. In rare instances, it can include delusions of immortality.
(wikipedia/Cotard_delusion)
The patient will say that he or she doesn't exist. The Cotard delusion has three stages; 1.: psychotic depression combined with hypercondriacal syndroms (see no. 20); 2.: delusions of negation, syndrom has developed fully; 3.: severe delusions and chronic depression

31. Hallucination

Someone has hallucination when he or she sees things or people who aren't there.

32. Catatonia

Catatonia is a state of neurogenic motor immobility where someone is basically just doing nothing or a repetitive motion for long periods of time or even repeating meaningless phrases or speaking only to repeat what someone is saying to them.

33. Misophonia

Misophonia is basically a hatred of sound where simple everyday sounds can either enrage a person or they just mimic it without thinking about it most often they also are affected by visual stimuli like fidgeting and will probably start to mimic it too. They usually have intense anxiety and avoid people because of it.

34. Narcolepsy

If someone has narcolepsy, that person will just fall asleep randomly. The time they are asleep can vary from a couple of minutes to some hours.

35. Histrionic Personality Disorder/HPD

A person with HPD is seeking for attention and might do it by flirting with other people. That person is usually very lively. This disorder usually effects more women than men. They are said to have a high self-esteem but at the same time are very easy to be influenced.

36. Selective Mutism

This is an anxiety disorder in which a person who is normally capable of speech does not speak in specific situations or to specific people. Selective mutism usually co-exists with shyness or social anxiety.

37. Night Terror / Pavor Nocturus

Night Terror or Pavor Nocturus is a parasomnia disorder, causing feelings of terror or dread, and typically occurring in the first few hours of sleep during stage 3 or 4 non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. Night terrors tend to happen during periods of arousal from delta sleep, also known as slow wave sleep.

38. Capgras Delusion

is a disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, or other close family member (or pet) has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor. The Capgras delusion is classified as a delusional misidentification syndrom, a class of delusional beliefs that involves the misidentification of people, places, or objects (usually not in conjunction). It can occur in acute, transient, or chronic forms. Cases in which patients hold the belief that time has been "warped" or "substituted" have also been reported.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion)

39. Autophagia

A person having autophagia will be overcome by the impulse to bite and sometimes even eat his or her own body.

Other causes

1. Broken Bones

2. Physical abuse

3. Synesthesia

The patient can 'see sounds' and 'smell colors'. Some people are born with that, for others it can be a consequence of taking LSD. People might see colors in letters, even if those are completely black.This disorder is said to be more common among artists and poets.

4. Blindness