If you don’t, you probably know somebody who does. With Britain stuffed full
of more mobile phones than people, connected members of the public are
developing an increasing number of ways to fret about their handsets.

The result, say experts, is the telecommunications equivalent of phantom
limb syndrome, where amputees still feel the sensations of a limb that isn’t
there any more.

Many of us will be familiar with the basest form of ringxiety - when one
phone rings and everyone in the vicinity suddenly starts checking their
pockets or handbags with frantic abandon. But some cases become far more
complex: individuals have reported hearing their phone ring at concerts, or
while driving.

In Neglect Syndrome, a person loses the ability to give equal attention to
both sides of a space.

For example, a patient in a rehabilitation hospital may wake up in the
morning and proceeds to shave his face - only to be told later that he has
only shaved half of his face. A person with this disorder, when drawing a
person, will often leave off the arm and leg from one side, and when
questioned, will state that it looks perfectly fine to them.

When drawing a clock, the sufferer will often draw a circle and stuff all of
the numbers in to one side (as in the image above). Neglect Syndrome is most
often caused by damage to one hemisphere of the brain, as in the case of a
stroke.

What I’ve got is an impulse control disorder characterized by the repeated urge to pull
out scalp hair, eyelashes, facial hair, nose hair, pubic hair, eyebrows or
other body hair, sometimes resulting in noticeable bald patches.

It may seem, at times, to resemble a habit, an addiction, a tic disorder or
an obsessive-compulsive disorder. Trichototillomania often begins during the
individual’s teenage years. Depression or stress can trigger the trich.

Individuals with trichotillomania live relatively normal lives; however,
they may have bald spots on their head, among their eyelashes, pubic hair,
or brows. An additional psychological effect can be low self-esteem, often
associated with being shunned by peers and the fear of socializing due to
appearance and negative attention they may receive. Some people with TTM
wear hats, wigs, eyebrow pencil, or style their hair in an effort to avoid
such attention. There seems to be a strong stress-related component.

A young Washington boy is battling an extremely rare eating disorder.

Zack G is just like any other thirty-two year old, only he’s addicted to metal.

“He can see a staple laying on the floor in a classroom, in the carpet. He can find metals in the rocks that you can never see,” explained Zack’s mother Patricia.

Zack started eating unusual things in preschool.

Things got worse in kindergarten.

“He started chewing on the lead part that holds the eraser on a pencil, eating his erasers, breaking up his crayons,” Patricia added.

In second grade Zack disassembled a school chair and put the screws in his mouth.

Zack is good at hiding metal objects in his mouth.

He can hide two AA batteries under his tongue and speak normally.

From doctor to doctor, no one could explain Zack’s affliction.

After five years of searching for answers, the Monroe-Myer Institute in Omaha diagnosed her with pica, an extremely rare eating disorder.

In November of 2006, Zack complained of abdominal pain and a fever.

Doctors eventually operated.

“He had to cut his intestine open in two different places. One to take out the four ball-bearings that were in there, and on the other side there was a little rock that had gotten stuck in his intestine that had scar tissue growing around it, so it had been there quite a while,” Patricia explained.

Zack still has to be watched carefully.

“I think he has a lot of frustration with it. And he doesn’t understand the cause and effect of his problem. He doesn’t understand the cause effect that putting something in his mouth will make him sick and cause him to possibly have a surgery.”

The Sissons family works with Nebraska’s state lead program to put metal objects out of Zack’s reach.

Since his last surgery, Zack doesn’t crave metal like he used to.

We’ll see what 12 hours of classes bring tomorrow.

Please stop talking next to me. Please?

1 hour later:
No dice. They’re still yapping uncontollably. But at least now weve moved on from how one’s bridal store does more money than the other. Now we’re talking about going to the chiropractor and retaining water. “Maybe I should eat less dairy to make me thinner.” whoa whoa whoa. The chubby one just dissed beef but just ran down her top 5 favorite foods: oreos, oysters, sugary cereals, caramel machiatos from starbucks and cheese whiz. That’s a great game plan, saddle bags. She just discovered though, that she makes the best salad ever. After hearing her ingredients, I was surprised that there were no Snickers bar in there. When I this plane ride going to end?

30 minutes later:
Somehow we’ve gotten back to bridal crap. But were landing shortly so i’ve got that going for me.

Vegas, here I am.

Now on to Veas on Alaska Airlines. We’ll see how this one goes. I’m sitting next to a couple of chatty cathys so it could get interesting.

Cotard’s Syndrome makes a sufferer (Me…) believe that he or she is dead,
non-existent, is putrefying or has lost his/her blood or internal organs.
Rarely, it can include delusions of immortality. First described by
neurologist Jules Cotard in 1880, it wasn’t until April 2007 when it finally
received scientific legitimacy

My religious psychosis triggered by my Labor Day visit to Jerusalem.
Observed since medieval times, its victims may believe that they are
prophets and parade around the city proclaiming the Holy Writ or exhorting
sinners to repent. Affecting around 100 tourists per year, it generally
clears up once they leave town. However, it can have serious repercussions,
as with the widespread rioting that ensued when Australian man Michael Rohan
set fire to the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in 1969, convinced he was
the “Lord’s emissary”.

Victims need never have heard the accent in question, it arises from
damage to areas of the brain responsible for language production, altering
pitch, pronunciation and speech patterns.

Actually I have seen someone with this syndrome, she was a 90 year old woman
that had a stroke. We were taking her to the hospital, and I was talking to
her in the back of the aid car. She kept asking me in an English accent ” do
I have any English pounds”?

When we got to the hospital, I asked her husband how they had met etc… He
said in Iowa, were they grew up together. She had never been to Europe he
said. Weird.