Bizarre Mental Disorders and Conditions

List of mental disorders or conditions marked by great elation and violent action or irrational and prolong desire or enthusiasm.

Here’s a compilation of some of the most peculiar conditions or disorders.

Urolagnia

Urolagnia (also known as urophilia or undinism) is a sexual fetish in which participants derive sexual pleasure from urine and urination.

Urolagnia fetishists often like to urinate in public, or urinate on, or be urinated on by other people, and may drink the urine. The consumption of urine is urophagia. Some like to watch others doing these things.

Tarantism

Tarantism is a nervous affection marked by manic or hysterical fits of dancing, melancholy, or stupor, believed to be attributed to the bite of a tarantula. The condition was common in southern Italy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The stated belief of the time was that victims needed to engage in frenzied dancing to prevent death from tarantism. Supposedly a particular kind of dance, called the Tarantella, evolved from this therapy.

Dipsomania

Dipsomania is a disorder having an uncontrollable craving for alcoholic beverages. It is also known as enomania. The obsession is so compulsive that the dipsomaniac will ingest whatever intoxicating liquid is at hand, whether it is fit for consumption or not. Dipsomania differs from alcoholism in that it is an uncontrollable periodic lust for alcohol, with, in the interim, no desire for alcoholic beverages. Famous dipsomaniacs include the German composer Max Reger, American actress and model Marilyn Monroe and American authors Ernest Hemingway and Edgar Allan Poe.

Bathophobia

Bathophobia is the extreme fear of looking downwards from high places or an abnormal and persistent fear of depths. Sufferers from bathophobia experience anxiety even though they realize they are safe from falling into or being consumed by depths. The feared object may be a long, dark hallway, a well or a deep pool or lake.

Aphrodisia

Aphrodisia is the extreme or morbid sexual passion. Its opposite is anaphrodisia which is the loss of sexual desire.

Hypnolepsy

Hypnolepsy is a neurological disorder marked by a sudden recurrent uncontrollable compulsion to sleep or uncontrollable desire to sleep for brief periods also called narcolepsy. It is the opposite of hyprophobia which is the pathological aversion to falling asleep.