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Achlophobia: Crowds Achlophobia: crowds Claustrophobia: enclosed Pathophobia: disease Acrophobia: heights places Peccatophobia: sinning Aerophobia: high objects Demonophobia: demons Pediphobia: children or dolls Agoraphobia: open spaces Domatophobia: being Ailuraphobia: cats Confined in a house Phobophobia: your own Algophobia: pain Entomophobia: insects fears Androphobia: men Equinophobia: horses Psychrophobia: cold Ankhophobia: flowers Ergophobia: work Pyrophobia: fire Anthrophobia: people Gephydrophobia: crossing Sitophobia: food Apiphobia: bees Bridges Sophophobia: learning Aquaphobia: water Gynephobia: women Stenophobia: open places Arachnephobia: spiders Hematophobia: blood Syphilophobia: syphilis Astraphobia: storms Herpetophobia: reptiles Taphephobia: being buried Aviophobia: flying Heterophobia: opposite sex alive Baccilophobia: microbes Hydrophobia: water Technophobia: technology Bacteriophobia: germs Iatrophobia: doctors Thalassophobia: ocean Ballistophobia: bullets Monophobia: being alone Thanatophobia: death Bathophobia: depth Mysophobia: dirt Topophobia: performing on Belonephobia: pins-needles Necrophobia: dead bodies stage Botanophobia: plants Nosophobia: disease Trichophobia: hair Brontophobia: thunder Nucleomitiphobia: nuclear Triskaidekaphobia: # 13 Clinophobia: beds bombs Tropophobia: moving Cynophobia: dogs Numerophobia: numbers Verbophobia: words Decidophobia: making Nyctophobia: night Vestiophobia: clothing decisions Ombrophobia: rain Xenophobia: strangers Chromophobia: certain Ophidiophobia: snakes Zoophobia: animals colors Optophobia: opening your eyes Bipolar Disorder intense, stubborn, and often His bipolar behaviors disheveled, with a spiritual, started when he had / ascetic side to his character. epileptic seizures. When During his twenties, an his attacks began, they Previously known as interest in the religious life terrified him since they “manic-depression,” led him to become a lay brought on bizarre, self- Bipolar Disorder causes missionary, working among destructive behavior. Work someone to alternate moods the poor coal miners of was impossible and he between two extreme poles. southern Belgium. He lived eventually entered an In the depressive state, in a shack, sleeping on the asylum. Though he painted the sufferer shows floor. He nursed victims of intensely until the end, he symptoms of major disease and mine accidents. felt a growing despair and, depression. In the manic This chapter of his life at the age of 37, took his state, she may feel euphoric ended when his supervisors, own life (shot himself in the and extraordinarily who rebuked him for stomach). energetic, talking without “excessive zeal,” dismissed Van Gogh’s illness was stopping and showing an him from his missionary never completely diagnosed exaggerated sense of work. during his lifetime, but it greatness. She may go on He emerged from the has been analyzed spending binges or engage experience shaken, but posthumously by many in other excessive or convinced that his life was specialists. The most reckless bahavior, needing to be an intellectual and common theory suggests little sleep. artistic quest. In the Van Gogh suffered from remaining ten years of his epileptic seizures, resulting life, Van Gogh devoted in the emotional roller- himself to painting. “What coaster of extreme mania am I in the eyes of most and depression. people? A nobody, an eccentric and disagreeable man. I want to show by my Fugue work what there is in the heart of such an eccentric People with dissociative man, of such a nobody,” he fugue forget who they are wrote. He worked and all details of their lives. incessantly, often producing Sufferers may wind up in a painting a day. He also an emergency room, unable wrote hundreds of letters to to recall their identity, or Vincent Van Gogh Theo and others, filled with they may move elsewhere A Case Study vivid descriptions of the and begin a new life with a landscapes and people new identity. Vincent van Gogh was a around him, and with Occasionally, the person man of astonishing analysis of his work in keeps the identity for years, creativity and profound progress (perhaps during but typically the condition suffering. He was isolated, fits of mania). doesn’t last very long. lonely, and financially Today, Van Gogh is When it ends, the person dependent on his brother known for his impressionist may not recall what Theo. And during the last paintings such as Starry happened during that time 18 months of his life he was Night, Sunflowers, and his period. plagued by a neurological Self-portrait. Several have It is usually the result of disorder that led to the sold for more than serious, unresolved famous incident in 1888 $80,000,000 each. Sadly, problems, such as a when he cut off part of his only one of his paintings dysfunctional marital ear with a razor. was sold during his life (The relationship. It is true that Van Gogh Red Vineyard) for a mere was a disturbing presence $80. in polite society. He was Patty Hearst grows, he will tend to independent). Below are A Case Study continue to withdraw from several true savants: human contact, preferring Leslie Lemke is from Patty Hearst was 19 years to play alone with a favorite Arpin, Wisconsin. He is old in 1974 when she was object (usually in a blind and limited in IQ, yet kidnapped by a terrorist repetitious manner). The he possesses an group known as the child develops compulsive extraordinary memory, Symbionese Liberation routines and may be sings and plays piano. The Army (SLA). The extraordinarily intolerant subject of the film An granddaughter of the of changes in the physical Island of Genius, Lemke newspaper publisher surroundings, showing can play a musical piece William Randolph Hearst severe tantrums if books, verbatim (note for note) (Citizen Kane fame), she toys, furniture, or other after hearing it just once. was held for a $2,000,000 objects are moved from He also composes his own ransom at first. their “correct” place music. However, while captive, (Rainman repeating “who’s Thomas Bethune had a Hearst converted to the on first when things put out vocabulary of less than 100 cause of her abductors and of order). words, but could play 5.000 began to participate in On a positive note, musical pieces on the piano. some of the criminal autistic children tend to He learned each piece after behavior, including robbing move gracefully and many hearing it only once. a bank. are expert climbers (What’s Alonzo Clemons has an In 1975, she was captured Eating Gilbert Grape? Scene IQ of 40, yet is an as a criminal and did spend of boy climbing the water exceptionally talented time in prison (she was tower). An autistic child sculptor who has sold released in 1979). can use their hands hundreds of pieces for up to Psychiatrists diagnosed her skillfully, but often refuse $45,000. Most buyers are with “traumatic neurosis to use their hands, instead unaware the art is done by with dissociative features.” taking an adult’s wrist and a handicapped person. In essence, the fugue state using her hands. Thomas Fuller was born was brought on by No one knows what in Africa in 1710. He was a brainwashing. She does causes autism, though most calculating wonder who recall her experiences and experts agree it is an inborn could easily multiply nine- wrote about it in her disorder of body chemistry. digit numbers. At age 78, biography. Fuller, who was never able Leslie Lemke to read or write, was asked, “how many seconds has a A Case Study man lived who is 70 years, Autism Autistic children have 17 days, and 12 hours old?” Autism is a rare, severe difficulty communicating Ninety seconds later, he mental disorder in children, and probably will need gave the answer – characterized by a child’s assistance throughout their 2,210,500,800. Informed he inability to develop normal lives. Their IQ may be was wrong, Fuller corrected relationships with people, limited by the disorder. the person, pointing out including its own parents. However, some autistic that the man had forgotten Often, it is not discovered people will show signs of to include leap years. until it becomes apparent “Savant Syndrome,” a rare George and Charles, the the child’s speech condition in which the Bronx Calendar Twins. development is markedly autistic child may possess Born in 1939, the brothers behind schedule. an unusual ability in a can give the day of the week Occurring mostly in boys single field, most often for any date over a period (75 %), autism symptoms relating to music, art, or of 80,000 years. They can include a strange, vacant numbers. Rainman had an also recall, in detail, the stare. Most autistic babies extraordinary ability to weather for any day of their do not cuddle. As the child count (yet his autism lives. limited his ability to be .
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