Alien Hand Syndrome (AHS)?
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Alien Hand Syndrome = One who believes that his hand is not his...very intriguing but it happens due to disruption of corpus collosum in the brain after stroke...seems like someone controls their hand's movement...check this website http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=12655
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I knew a guy about 15 years ago who had two thumbs on one of his hands. A small "extra" thumb grew out of his "normal" thumb on that hand. The extra thumb looked pretty standard except that it was considerably smaller than the normal one.\n\nHe seemed to be quite self-conscious about it. He cracked a joke about it when he saw me looking at his hand. Honestly, I don't think I had even noticed his extra thumb; I just happened to be looking down where his hand was and not really registering what I was seeing. I think he was just expecting people to make remarks about it and had a joke ready when he thought someone noticed. \n\nHe also had a rather severe stutter. I'm not sure if the stutter was some psychological result of his extra thumb or completely unrelated. But he really seemed to appreciate my patience in waiting for him to say the things he was struggling to say.
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Organic brain syndrome.
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Marge aphobia...Try soaking your hands in Palmolive..and pretending you are on Fear Factor.   Then reward yourself when you are done
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Make fun of us.  "Monk" pointsw out how perspicuous our disorder is.  Though not fully accepted by the public as a disability, OCD's are very real to us.  My mother called me up bawling and begging forgiveness after realization.  I would start with ridiculing us for the seemingly nonsensical and irrational reactions we have to seemingly rational situations.  I would then pound into the audience these perceptions are quite real to some of us.  You will likely gain a heightened interest by some simply because of the absurdity of the disorder and gain some sympethizers with some very real stories.  Before you mimnimize this disorder....I have fully come to terms with the fact my OCD's will ultimately contribute to the demise of my life and everything I have ever loved.  Beliefs or not, they will end me.
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go help your mom. there is nothing wrong with your hands lol
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If they haven't that would be a good thing to research.\nI don't think it would give you the outcome you might be thinking of though.  Maybe other disorders.\n\nMy aunt is bipolar and is not particularly interested in ghosts, aliens or anything like that.  She is slightly excessively religious, but that's all.\n\nMy brother is mildly autistic (not really a traditional mood disorder) and he used to have a strong interest in UFOs when he was little but has made no claims of seeing any, or any ghosts, and no longer seems to be very obsessed with them.\n\nI am also mildly schizoaffective (and very obsessive compulsive) but do not suffer from hallucinations.  I assume that one who did would likely include aliens or ghosts or goblins (whatever) although I haven't heard of most people expiriencing this.\n\nI am extremely irrational though at times and half to self-council myself to look at things logically, although sometimes I allow some delusions (typically involving ghosts) to stay unanalyzed.  I think my interest in science has actually helped me to not be more delusional than I am.
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Yes I know about it because the person is me.It used to be that I would wash my hands so much, that the skin would crack . And forget about picking up anything that was even remotely gross or dirty, I'd freak out and run to the sink and scrub for minutes at a time. I was driving my Husband crazy, and myself . So I got help. I went to a therapist and he put me on medication to ease the symptoms, and I see him to get a handle on this sometimes debilitating condition . The med. that worked for me was Prozac , which will also help with panic disorder. Get your Boy into the therapist as soon as possible .I'm sorry to say that it is unlikely that He will grow out of it . These things only get worse over time.Good luck, hope it all works out for You and your Son.
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I have trichtotillamania, a disorder brought on by stress that runs in my family.  I've been compulsively plucking hair from my eyebrows, eyelashes, arms, and face since I was 8.  I can tell you from experience that two more will not grow back in place of a plucked hair, otherwise I'd be plucking 24/7.  Also, trichtotillamania is classified in with the other manias, such as pyromania and kleptomania...which I believe needs to be changed because it's more like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder...which I also seem to have a touch of since childhood.
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How disturbed are he?  He be killing live things? This are how John Dahmer started his crazy nogoodness. You be asking Yahoo where top send him? You needs to be asking a doctor of some kind. Call Dr. Fingers @ (800)52-Stern.
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Morgellon's Disease: Mysterious Ecto-Parasites \n\nTranscript of a Four Part Series on CBS 47 Jacksonville News\nOriginal article and video interview may be found HERE\n\nA mysterious skin disease is currently spreading across America, and doctors are searching for answers on how to stop the epidemic.\n\nThe disease, called Morgellons Disease, is a parasite-like infection that literally makes the infected person's skin crawl.  The disease has already been found in thousands of patients in Florida , Texas and California. \n\n“I would lay in the bed and it felt like an army of ants just crawling over the bed, all over my body,” says one Morgellons Disease sufferer.\n\n“It never goes away,” says another. “It doesn't die, it doesn't leave.”\n\nWhat sounds like a science fiction movie is actually real life for the unlucky people who have contracted the disease which leaves painful sores all over the body. The sores ooze blue fibers, white threads and little black specks of sand-like material. \n\nThe worst part, patients say, is the creepy and constant sensation of bugs crawling under their skin.\n\nAlso discouraging, is the patient's treatment by doctors, who have little knowledge about the disease, and in specific cases have lacked compassion for the sufferers. \n\n“I was so humiliated from the three doctors that I went to, that I just refused to go back,” said on patient. \n\nBecky Bailey moved out of her Austin, Texas home and into a trailer hoping to escape the bugs that torment her. \n\n"We ripped out our carpet and burned our carpet and furniture and move out into our R-V and they were still one me." \n\nWithout medical help, suffering families researched their symptoms on their own by way of the internet. Finally, they were able to put a name to their pain – Morgellons. \n\nThe sickly skin disease has actually been around for centuries. In 1935, an English physician wrote a paper about Morgellons including excerpts from medical journals from the 1600's, describing the disease. \n\nUnfortunately, not much was known then about Morgellons -- and not much has been learned in the more than 400 years since. \n\nWhat is known, is that many of people who may have it, suffer from these symptoms: constant itching/crawling sensation, chronic fatigue, brain fog or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, joint swelling or hair loss \n\nWhat you should do if you have these symptoms, is as puzzling as the disease itself. \n\nOne woman in Pittsburgh, PA made it her mission to find out what causes and what will cure this bizarre disease. \n\nMary Leitao is a biologist and the creator the Morgellons Research Foundation in Pittsburgh.\n\nHer goal is to get State Health Agencies and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to study this disease. \n\n“It's inhumane that these people have been allowed to go home and have been forced to research this day in and day out for years on their own,” says Leitao. \n\nLeitao's motivations come from her 6 year old boy Drew. Four years ago, he began to feel the itch. \n\n"He started describing bugs. He said, mommy, bugs, and he would scratch." \n\nThen came the sores that shed the fibers. Mary took drew to the doctor and the doctor said it was nothing to worry about. \n\n"I was going to find an answer, or I was going to have to take my life, that's all there was too it." \n\nDoctors don't know what causes the disease, who is at risk and exactly how many people may be suffering. The Morgellon Foundation says they have about 12 hundred people registered on their site. Those are only people who have a computer and happened to find them online. \n\nIn Jacksonville , more than a dozen cases have been found.\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nFor Anne Dill, standing in her backyard, looking over the lake is physically and emotionally painful
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Could be carpel tunnel syndrome, get it looked at by another doctor...;
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well ma'am I am not sure of meridians but little finger is innervated with the nerver that is typically involved in carpal tunnel syndrome as well, so if your symptoms are still persisting, I would see a doctor to evaluate that. otherwise such localised things often act up and siappear by the time you have finished a million dollar workup. so if the shooting sensation is bearable and not too bad and is accompanied by no swelling, redness etc, then you could also consider sitting on it a few more weeks and it may disappear too, good luck
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the best one is definitely Jumping Frenchmen of Maine disorder.\n\nThose who suffer from Jumping Frenchman of Maine have highly exaggerated startle reflexes, and tend to leap about wildly, whooping and flailing their elbows ineffectually when they are frightened.\n\nThe disorder was named after a pair of French-Canadian lumberjack brothers who worked in Maine.\n\nI can only imagine the living hell it must have been for them living in a lumber camp where their reaction was well known enough to get the disorder named after them.  I know if I were working with them, I'd be compelled to test their reactions at least once a week.
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The NIH has a published study on (seriously) ACHOO syndrome. My sisters have it. ACHOO SYNDROME\n\nAlternative titles; symbols\nAUTOSOMAL DOMINANT COMPELLING HELIOOPHTHALMIC OUTBURST SYNDROME\nPHOTIC SNEEZE REFLEX\nSNEEZING FROM LIGHT EXPOSURE\nPEROUTKA SNEEZE\n\nIt is described a 'disorder' characterized by nearly uncontrollable paroxysms of sneezing provoked in a reflex fashion by the sudden exposure of a dark-adapted subject to intensely bright light, usually sunlight.
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you need to report this to the lab Director,never be afraid to tell health care workers to wash their hands /change gloves you really must watch out for yourself and your health in dealing with any health care system
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hi .. instead of getting useless worries why not have some simple knowledge about it .. \n\nSTROKE IDENTIFICATION: \n\nMy friend sent this to me and encouraged me to post it and spread the word, I agreed. If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks. Seriously. please read: \n\nDuring a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food - while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the afternoon. Ingrid's husband called later saying that his wife had been taken to the hospital and passed away. She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some stroke victims don't die, they end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead. \n\nIt only takes a minute to read this... \n\nA neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within three hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke . . . totally. He said the trick was having a stroke recognized, diagnosed and then getting the patient medically cared for within three hours, which is tough. \n\nRECOGNIZING A STROKE \n\nThank God for the sense to remember the "3" steps. \n\nRead and Learn! \n\nSometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke. \n\nNow doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions: \n\nS *Ask the individual to SMILE. \n\nT *Ask the person to TALK, \nto SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE. (Coherently) (i.e. . . It is sunny out today) \n\nR *Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS. \n\nNOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out their tongue. if the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other, that is also an indication of a stroke. \n\nhope it will help ..