Culturally-specific diseases and mental disorders

In most of the media focus is on diseases that affect the general population, for example, cause epidemics and pandemics, but, oddly enough, there are certain diseases and mental disorders, which affect only the members of a particular ethnic group or the inhabitants of a particular region . Even in Western medicine, many of these diseases and mental disorders are not treated, and, in principle, many of them do not have a scientific explanation as such.

Those who are not lucky enough to catch this or that disease, we described below, basically withdraws his fortune in curses, witchcraft or damage. But there are cases that are too reminiscent of a depressive disorder, or laziness. So, let's get down to discussing the strange and unexplained illnesses.

"Refugee Syndrome"

"Refugee Syndrome" or "Uppgivenhetssyndrom" - a strange disease affecting only the refugee children from the former Soviet and Yugoslav states, who now live in Sweden. Based on the number of cases of the disease, the child's symptoms develop suddenly and rapidly. They manifest themselves when he realizes that he is going to return to his native country. Symptoms of this disease are very similar to a condition where a person is in a coma.

The child refuses to move, talk and eat. All he does is lie on the bed. In most cases, many parents scared confuse a state of death, because children do not respond to anything, and in a moment of panic may seem that the child had died, although it is not so. Very well documented one case, which describes the state of the two sisters, who lived in the Republic of Kosovo. One older girl just stopped going when she learned that her family had to move. Soon joined by the younger to her.

The sisters were in a coma for two years. It is known that most of the children are returned to normal only after leaving abruptly canceled, and all remain at home. But, despite this, children need a few months to recover. In another well-documented case of the boy he spent more than three months in bed after his family had to leave the country. Child "came" only when the decision was made to stay in Switzerland.

"Running Amok"

In English, the phrase "(to) run amok" translates to "lose control" or "run amok". In simpler terms, it can be translated as "freaking out." This phrase, in fact, associated with the "running Amok" - a disease in which the trust came from Malaysia, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. A person suffering from "running amok", demonstrates the cruel and unpredictable behavior and may even commit suicide. The first case of the disease was recorded some 200 years ago. In traditional medicine, the disease "running amok" is considered to be a purely mental disorder.

It is believed that the occurrence of the disease called "running amok" is a consequence of the isolation of indigenous tribes from the society, and in addition to this all is aggravated because of their religious beliefs. Nevertheless, the natives believe that the disease can cause a daemon that penetrates the victim's body and eats its soul. The only remedy for the treatment of this disease - kill the evil nature, however, it is dangerous, because the demon might try to kill the vessel in which he sits, and just take the body of someone else.

Another treatment - just let the victim of the evil spirit to live. If he does not commit suicide, you can return to normal life. However, most patients still kill themselves or kill someone else.

Hikikomori

Hikikomory - mental illness that generally inherent in the Japanese youth. In Japanese, the word means "to be alone." Many young people in Japan do not go out of their homes for several months. They do not do anything, just sit in my room and look at the ceiling or at the computer screen. Some people manifest features characteristic of obsessive-compulsive disorder. They buy into the apartment a lot of unnecessary things that they in fact do not need, and can cause injury to themselves, that is to cut yourself.

The majority of the victims of this strange disease is not more than 25 years, and, most interestingly, 80 percent of them are representatives of the stronger sex. Sociologists believe that hikikomori is caused by the influence of the West in the Japanese labor market. In an ideal scenario, Japanese students get a job immediately after graduation and work on it the rest of your life. Nevertheless, many are beginning to work immediately after the high school, well, some bad luck and they sit idle even after graduating from college.

When this happens, people who have not been able to get, or to those who went to work early, it is very difficult to communicate with colleagues and more successful, in principle, with the people. The study, sponsored by the Japanese government showed that 236,000 Japanese people affected by the hikikomori in 2010. Doctors have been unable to really explain the causes of this disease. Hikikomori around a lot of confusion, because even the victim of this disease really can not describe all of your symptoms. To date there is no available treatment for the disease.