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As a rule, diseases equally affect people all over the world. But in some countries have certain disorders inherent only to them, and the symptoms and consequences usually do not extend beyond the borders of a country or ethnic group.
1. Retired Husband Syndrome
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Japan is known for its work ethic, and many people work in office after school and devote all their free time to their careers. Often spouses neglect marriage for the sake of business, and when a man retires, various kinds of problems appear.
When a couple no longer concentrates on a career and more time spends together, the spouses find out that in fact they don’t know, and this often leads to conflict.
Over the past 10 years, the rate of divorce in Japan has grown by 27 percent, and this figure will increase as more and more people become pensioners.
Many men who are not accustomed to domestic life are treated with their wives as subordinates or servants. Social circle her husband is also closely associated with work and disappears after reaching retirement. Women can hardly cope with the violation of the usual order, when a man is at home for days and tries to control their life. They suffer from stress and they have problems with health.
In addition, the traditional family structure is changing. Children who used to live with their parents are in no hurry to connect themselves by marriage, thereby not helping parents get used to transitional period with the help of children and grandchildren.
It has become such a problem that therapists and psychologists are now specialize in treating women who experience this situation, and support groups are aimed at helping men, retired.
2. New World Syndrome
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In industrialized countries, in particular in the USA, more and more a sedentary lifestyle is becoming common: view TV and video games. At the same time, food is saturated with fats and calories.
Such an American way of life was until recently unfamiliar in island regions such as Micronesia and other areas Oceania.
Indigenous people usually ate fruits, vegetables and freshly caught fish. When the pirates discovered the islands at the beginning of the 20th centuries, they brought alcohol and infectious diseases to the islands, and later, with the development of the mining industry, import unhealthy foods from the western world.
As a result, there is a surge in diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, and some islanders survived their the first heart attack was already in his early 20s. Many people passing for 50, already consider themselves old, and 85 percent of the population suffers from obesity.
Interestingly, the New World Syndrome contributed to the idea that it is possible to suffer from obesity and inferior nutrition, and such people, according to WHO, more than 1 billion.
3. Lata
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Lata, which means “nervous,” is a rare disorder from Malaysia, characterized by excessive reaction to sudden noise or other frightening incentives. In humans, uncontrolled movements, from gestures to swearing, singing and dances. Moreover, a person implicitly follows what he they say.
So in one study, a woman is reported to have the team hit other people, ate inedible objects and reacted to a non-existent threat in the room.
Another patient tried to breastfeed her hat when she said it was her hungry child. After passes attack, a person returns to normal and cannot explain your previous actions.
The reasons for the lat are not yet known, and there are suspicions that this may be a genetic predisposition. Most commonly upset affects postmenopausal women, but also occurs cases of developmental disorders in young women and men.
4. Fire disease
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Hwabyung or “fire sickness” is peculiar only to Korea and characterized by burning sensation, a feeling of heaviness in the chest, insomnia, muscle aches, palpitations, weight loss, and blurred vision The state, in the end, can develop into depressed.
The disorder is most common in middle-aged women and arises when they experience anger but cannot express it.
This anger goes inward, and when the situation does not improve, it begins to manifest physically and mentally. Psychologists blame cultural and historical factors since the Koreans survived riots and political upheaval, and many were left only endure.
Korean residents who emigrate also face “fiery disease”, since new life in another country is often delivers no less stress than their former.
According to Korean popular beliefs, anger is fire. Holding back the “fire” causes it to build up in the body, disturbing the natural balance and leading to an endless cycle helplessness and depression.
5. Dhat Syndrome
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Dhat syndrome affects young men living in Hindustan, in mainly in Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan. The syndrome is characterized anxiety that the body loses its seed through urination and other unusual discharge. There are symptoms such as fatigue, difficulty concentrating, loss of appetite and sexual dysfunction.
Men suffering from Dhat syndrome feel they are losing important part of yourself. Anxiety associated with Ayurvedic philosophy, according to which substances in the body like blood, fat, flesh, bone marrow, lymph and seminal fluid are important for maintaining balance and well-being.
It is believed that the seed plays the most important role, since all fluids and substances in the body go through the stages when they are transformed and become seminal fluid. The seed is a key factor contributing to a long and healthy life, and its loss means some kind of violation.
People suffering from this disorder consider it physical illness, but treatment usually involves consultation with a psychiatrist. Without proper treatment, depression usually occurs.
6. Fear of cold and wind
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Pa-leng – excessive fear of the cold and Pa-feng – intense fear wind is most common among Chinese residents or immigrants, practicing ideas related to yin and yang. Both of these disorders associated with the idea that to maintain the balance of the body equilibrium of temperature is required. Wind and cold take valuable body heat, disturbing the natural balance.
It is believed that the wind brings with it a disease, and if a person I felt good in the morning and then suddenly fell ill, people blame this is the wind.
Both cold and wind are associated with yin energy, and people suffering from these disorders, make every effort to keep warm or yang. They can dress too warm, avoid drafts, and eat only hot food. They may also suffer consequences. imbalances in yin and yang, such as headaches, dizziness, abdominal pain and cough.
7. Scrupulousness
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Scrupulousness is associated with religiosity, in particular with Catholicism. People suffering from this disorder believe that they are constantly in a state of sin, and whatever they do, they anger God.
Often a person experiences torment from one idea, for example, carefully following bible verses, avoiding any blasphemous thoughts or staying “clean”, but ignoring the main ideas, such like the commandments.
Man sees himself as a sinner and suffers from what he believes himself unworthy and not happy with everything he does. Meticulousness refers to obsessive-compulsive disorder and may result to self-torture or self-sacrifice in order to “cleanse oneself of sin. ”
Violation is also treated as obsessive-compulsive disorders through behavioral therapy and drug preparations.
8. Sudden Sudden Death Syndrome
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Sudden Sudden Death Syndrome Prevails in Southeast Of Asia. It is characterized by the fact that healthy men, most of who have not reached middle age, go to bed and no longer awake. Most of them are found dead after weird screams at night.
According to legend, these mysterious deaths are caused by spirits that kill men in a dream. In Thailand, this is the spirit of a widowed woman, which steals the souls of living men. In Japan it is called pok-kuri, and in Vietnam and Laos – “tsobuan”, and in the Philippines – “bungungot” or “bathybat”.
Mention of mysterious deaths appeared at the beginning of the 20th. centuries, but only recently have scientists begun to associate this phenomenon with irregularly in an electrocardiogram. ECG irregularity takes the form shark fin, and is known as “Brugada syndrome,” named after Cardiologists Pedro and Josep Brugada.
Those who die of sudden sudden death syndrome do not other health problems. Study of unexplained deaths in Manila, which occurred between 1948 and 1982, showed that most of the victims were 33 years old and they died at 3 a.m., more often total in December and January.
9. Tabanka
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Tabanca is a severe form of a broken heart, from which suffer men in Trinidad. From time immemorial, the tabanka has been amazing for those was losing favorite people to an opponent, but now this term means more broad term of unrequited love.
In most cases, a person suffering from tabanac loses interest in the world, ceases to eat, suffers from abdominal pain and insomnia. Although it seems like this is a common condition when broken heart, but it can get worse.
A person begins to drink a lot, which exacerbates depression, and may lead to suicide. One of the problems is also one the fact that people suffering from tabanac hide their condition, so how it is mocked.
Women suffer from this disorder less often than men, partly due to the fact that they are more likely to lose partner to another woman.
10. Obsession Zar
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According to the belief system of Ethiopian Jews, Adam and Eve had 30 children. Eve, being concerned that the most beautiful children will provoke the envy of God, decided to hide 15 of their children in Eden the garden.
God, of course, saw this and as punishment did all 15 children are invisible. The remaining children became the ancestors of the human race, and 15 invisible children became zar – spirits that haunt and preying on their brothers and sisters.
People who have an obsession with zar (who actually actually suffer from several disorders), begin to experience headaches and fatigue.
Such an obsession with spirits often arises amid traumatic and stressful events, such as changes in status in a relationship, struggle with infertility or changes in the social circle.
If the expulsion of spirits does not help, the person turns to the cult the healer. The healer introduces the victim into a trance, during which he is talking to the spirit. At the same time, the master and spirit are trying agree, and in exchange for a calm life, the patient makes a promise, for example not eating certain foods, chatting with some people, or dress in a certain way.
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