What are some rare mental disorders?

What are some rare mental disorders?

Rare Mental Disorders

• Stendhal Syndrome. Those with Stendhal syndrome experience physical and emotional anxiety as well as panic attacks, dissociative experiences, confusion and hallucinations when exposed to art.
• Apotemnophilia.
• Alien Hand Syndrome.
• Capgras Syndrome.
• Alice in Wonderland Syndrome.

What is folie a deux?

Folie à deux is defined as an identical or similar mental disorder affecting two or more individuals, usually the members of a close family.

What is Erotomanic?

Erotomania is when you think someone is in love with you but they’re not. It may be a person you’ve never met. They might even be famous, like a politician or an actor. You can be so sure of this love that you think you’re in a relationship with this person.

What causes folie a deux?

Interpersonal relationships that are characterized by being close, lasting, and isolated from a social environment have also been identified as risk factors for the occurrence of folie à deux. This intimate interaction is an essential factor in the development of shared psychotic disorder.

What is a shared delusion?

Shared delusional disorder occurs when a delusional belief held by one person (the “primary”) becomes shared by one other (the “secondary”) or several other people associated with that person. In most cases, a second person is dependent on, or has a passive relationship with, the primarily affected person.

Is shared psychosis real?

Shared psychosis (previously termed folie à deux) is now considered a subset of delusional disorder. It usually occurs in a person or group of people (usually a family) who are related to a person with a significant delusional disorder or schizophrenia.

What is a mood disorder with psychotic features?

Schizoaffective disorder symptoms may vary from person to person. People with the condition experience psychotic symptoms, such as hallucinations or delusions, as well as symptoms of a mood disorder — either bipolar type (episodes of mania and sometimes depression) or depressive type (episodes of depression).

What is brief psychotic disorder?

Brief psychotic disorder is a sudden, short-term display of psychotic behavior, such as hallucinations or delusions, which occurs with a stressful event.

What is a schizophreniform disorder?

Schizophreniform disorder, like schizophrenia, is a psychotic disorder that affects how you act, think, relate to others, express emotions and perceive reality. Unlike schizophrenia, it lasts one to six months instead of the rest of your life.

What is Paraphrenia?

The term paraphrenia was previously used to describe psychotic syndromes in the elderly. Currently used terms are late-onset schizophrenia or late-life psychosis, encompassing delusions and visual and auditory hallucinations arising in late life.

Do schizophrenics walk weird?

Schizophrenia is consistently associated with mild Parkinsonism and ataxia, regardless of medications. Often the gait is slower, stride length shorter,21,22 and tandem gait mildly impaired.