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"Trichotillomania is a rare impulse control disorder in which the sufferer compulsively pulls out his or her own hair. People with trichotillomania most commonly pull hair from their scalp, eyelashes, eyebrows, or pubic area. While most people with trichotillomania pluck each hair out at the roots, others may pull out large handfuls at a time."
"Dermatillomania: A form of obsessive compulsive disorder where a person compulsively picks at their own skin. Sufferers can feel the pain they inflict on themselves but the feelings of gratification and stress relief prevent them from stopping. The severity and extent of damage to the skin is variable. Stress and anxiety can trigger the compulsive skin picking."
Fibromyalgia, once called fibrositis, is a condition affecting the muscles or joints that is often difficult to diagnose. It is one of a group of conditions with vague symptoms and may need to be distinguished from chronic fatigue syndrome, lupus, Type 2 diabetes, depression, Lyme disease, multiple sclerosis, or various other conditions. Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome share many common characteristics, and may be misdiagnosed as each other, or both misdiagnosed as depression.
Lupus is an autoimmune disease affecting mostly women and causing various effects throughout different parts of the body. Its severity can range from very mild to extremely serious depending on which body organs are afflicted.
Lupus is difficult to diagnose and often misdiagnosed unless there is a characteristic symptom such as the butterfly-shaped rash over the cheeks. There is no single definitive blood test for lupus and doctors have to make the diagnosis based on a variety of symptoms and diagnostic tests. Lupus is one of a group of conditions with vague symptoms such as fatigue or malaise, and may need to be distinguished from fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, Type 2 diabetes, depression, Lyme disease, multiple sclerosis, or various other conditions. If the main symptoms are joint symptoms, then various other causes of arthritis need to be considered.
Schizophrenia: Psychiatric disorder with delusional beliefs and hallucinations.
Paranoia is a type of delusion, a firmly held but nevertheless unrealistic belief. Paranoia is a persecutory delusion that someone will harm you in some way, whether physically, mentally or emotionally.
Mania's
aboulomania pathological indecisiveness
clinomania excessive desire to stay in bed
dacnomania obsession with killing
drapetomania intense desire to run away from home
gamomania obsession with issuing odd marriage proposals
habromania insanity featuring cheerful delusions
hydromania irrational craving for water
hylomania excessive tendency towards materialism
infomania excessive devotion to accumulating facts
kleptomania irrational predilection for stealing
mythomania lying or exaggerating to an abnormal extent
nosomania delusion of suffering from a disease
nostomania abnormal desire to go back to familiar places
oniomania mania for making purchases
onomatomania irresistible desire to repeat certain words
pathomania moral insanity
phonomania pathological tendency to murder
pseudomania irrational predilection for lying
squandermania irrational propensity for spending money wastefully
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