10 Strange Culture Disorders

10 Strange Culture Disorders

The phenomenon of mental disorders, mental, and or possession occurred in various parts of the world, are considered as cultural syndromes talkative because there happens to one person but a group, or regional. Like 5 cultural disruption described briefly below:

1.       Saora Disorder

Among the Saora tribe that inhabited the region of Orissa in India, the youth and pemudinya sometimes shows an abnormal perlilaku, the psychiatric experts from the West called it a mental disorder. They cried, laughed in an unspecified time, memory loss, fainting, and even feels like thousands of ant bites. This disorder usually affects the youth and young adult women who are not interested in living a normal life in their tribe who mostly petani.Berdasarkan livelihood as their beliefs, behaviors indicate that someone is being approached by a supernatural creature to marry.

2.       Couvade syndrome

This syndrome is experienced by men whose partners are pregnant and approaching the birth of her baby. Expectant fathers who experience this syndrome pregnancies will experience the prospective mother. The pain of childbirth, postpartum exiled, dietary restrictions and have intercourse. Even the extreme case is when the syndrome is able to change the body shape of the prospective father, looks like a woman seven months pregnant.

3.       Grisi Siknis (Disease Mad)

In English is called the "Crazy Sickness", or madness, is a contagious disease, a syndrome that dominates talkative residents Miskito village in the eastern part of Central America, Nicaragua, and primarily affects young women 15-18 years old. During the state of the mental illness, the patient will be unconscious, fell to the ground, then fled. But before going on the attack, the patient will experience a phenomenon characterized by, headache, dizziness, restlessness, nausea, and unprovoked anger or fear. Said to be contagious because the patient will usually mention the name of someone who was in the vicinity, and infected.

4.       Madness ghost (Ghost Sickness)

Ghost madness, or in English, is a cultural syndrome "talkative" that are associated with the spirits of the dead or dying by Native American tribes. Also associated with witchcraft. Synonymous with original Navajo community pskosis disorders. In general, the symptoms of this mental disorder characterized by loss of passion for life, a feeling of choking (shortness of breath), repeatedly nightmares and feeling threatened.

5.       Gurumba

Gurumba means the wild, crazy, and usually occurs in men who are married. When a man experiencing this condition wildness, then he will do anything to steal goods neighbors, take valuable items it thinks it could turn out. He then ran into the woods for a few days do not come back. But he returned in a state like nothing happened, and even the stolen goods were not carried along. The patient looks hyperactive and clumsy stuttering. This event occurred in the country Guinea.

6.       Koro

Koro is a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of penis shrinkage and retraction into the body, accompanied by panic and fear of death. This delusion is rooted in Chinese metaphysics and cultural practices. The disorder is associated with the belief that the sexual act is unhealthy or abnormal (such as sex with prostitutes, masturbation, or even nocturnal emissions) disturb the yin / equilibrium which existed when the husband allegedly having sex with his wife, that is, during normal "sexual intercourse." Koro also thought to be transmitted through food. In 1967, an epidemic of koro in Singapore after newspapers reported cases of koro due to eating pork from pigs that had been inoculated against swine fever. Not only pork sales down, but hundreds of koro cases followed.

7.       Windigo

Wendigo Psychosis is a mental disorder in which a person is very hungry for human flesh and thinks they turned into a cannibal (despite an abundance of healthy food available). The most common response among Aboriginal communities where Wendigo psychosis is most prevalent, was curing attempts by traditional native healers or Western doctors. In cases of unusual when these efforts failed, and the Wendigo sufferer began either to threaten those around them or to commit violence or anti-social, they were then generally executed. While some have denied the existence of this disorder, there are several credible witnesses, both by aboriginal communities and by Westerners, that prove that Wendigo psychosis was a factual historical phenomenon.

8.       Berserkers

Anger affects the Norsemen, who called berserkergang, occurs not only in the heat of battle, but also during heavy work. The man who thus seized performed things which otherwise seemed impossible for human power. This condition is said to have begun with shivering, chattering of the teeth, and chill in the body, and then face swollen and discolored. By connecting large hot-headedness, which at last gave over into a rage, where they howl like wild animals, bit the edge of their shields, and cut down everything they met without distinguishing between friend or foe. When the stop condition, a great dulling of the mind and weakness followed, which could last for one or several days.

9. Shenkui

A sufferer of shenkui (culture-bound syndromes China) showed marked anxiety or panic symptoms with somatic complaints that there is no physical cause can be shown. Symptoms include dizziness, backache, fatiguability, general weakness, insomnia, frequent dreams, and complaints of sexual dysfunction (such as premature ejaculation and impotence). Symptoms were associated with a reduction in weight of cement of frequent sexual intercourse, masturbation, nocturnal emissions, or the passing of "white turbid urine" believed to contain semen. Excessive semen loss is feared because it is losing one's vital essence and can thus can be life threatening.

10. Homosexual Panic

Homosexual panic is a term, first coined by psychiatrist Edward J. Kempf in 1920, which explains, acute brief reactive psychosis involving delusions and hallucinations accusing people of homosexual activities. This condition most often occurs in people who suffer from schizoid personality disorder who have isolated themselves from physical intimacy. Damage often occurs in situations that involve enforced intimacy with the same sex, such as dormitories or military barracks. This happens most frequently mass mobilization of World War II when barracks typically provided little privacy with communal bathrooms and often without doors or even cubicles around toilets. Treatment usually involves hospitalization, the first to remove the person from the situation and also because the condition can lead to suicide or murder. Usually members of the opposite sex are chosen to treat those who suffer from the disorder, and invasive procedures such as injections with needles or suppositories avoided....