Weird Psychological Disorders by Paige Sumowski
Weird Psychological/Neurological Disorders These are pretty crazy. Apotemnophilia This is when someone has an obsessive desire to cut off a healthy limb or to become paralyzed from the waist down. Patients generally preferred amputating the leg, rather than the arm, and most patients wanted to cut off a limb from the left side of their body. The main explanation at the moment is that apotemnophilia is driven by sexual compulsion, however, some studies have observed individuals with apotemnophilia who needed to cut off their leg "to feel complete." Alien Hand Syndrome This syndrome was investigated after a 77-year-old woman complained that her hand was moving without her mind's control. She was watching TV, and her hand starting stroking her face and hair as if it wasn't her own. This generally caused by brain tumors, aneurysms, degenerative diseases of the brain, and, as in the woman's case, a stroke. These lesions will be in the corpus callosu...