Strange mental illnesses

Actually, a presentation on phobias might work. Strange phobias and common treatments. I'll think about it.

I heard the same episode! There is another part on this evening. I don't know if that will work as its extremely close to a subject one of my classmates is doing.

Republicanism?

(i kid!)

That was a very good segment, I heard it on Wednesday!

Also...

I KNOW everyone will laugh at this but I suffer from:

Myrmecophobia-The Fear of Ants, no I have never went to a psych. for this, but I can't stand ants, I cringe just seeing them, I will walk around a spot on the ground if there is even ONE.

 Im like a little girl if one touches me.

you do not kid, you crazy cat.

What about Munchausen and Munchausen by proxy? It's one I really do not get....

from wikipedia: (not reliable for academic study, but a good place to go for starters.)

Munchausen syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which those affected fake disease, illness, or psychological trauma in order to draw attention or sympathy to themselves. It is in a class of disorders known as factitious disorders which involve "illnesses" whose symptoms are either self-induced or falsified by the patient. It is also sometimes known as hospital addiction syndrome

I vote for the gender identity issue.  Read "My Husband Betty" by Helen Boyd.

Thanks for the ideas! Keep them coming.

Munchausen was part of my Factitious disorders presentation, been there done that. People with that particular kind of factitious disorder feign physical illnesses rather than mental illness like schizophrenia. Anyway, can't do that one.

I'll look into PANDAS, thanks for the suggestion.

Max, someone is already doing gender identity issues! However, I can find a good therapist in your area is you'd like.

I have a patient right now who had episodes of a "fugue state" in the past...it is just wild!

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_fugue

Liberalism??  Might be too involved of a subject for just one class though!  JK...sort of!

Actually, if you want to come to work with me in the ER any weekend night I'm sure you could find plenty of worthwhile subjects.

I don't think Liberalism would fly here in my Army course.

I'm working in the ER right now, there might be some stragglers coming in soon from a night of partying and whatnot. I might find something today.

Heh!  Thanks, but I'm comfortable with both of me, and so is Patti. 

This is the stangest one I've come across.... they'll eat anything, it's scary and the things the surgeons remove from their insides  is amazing !  I had one patient pull his IV line out of his arm with his teeth and was chewing on it within seconds and that was with someone sitting in the room watching him.  (He was an adult in his 40s who has been in an institutional setting his whole life, and has had multiple surgeries to remove items he's eaten)

http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic1798.htm