A very interesting documentary to watch. It showcases 3 different disorders that I’d never heard of before.
1: Tourette syndrome (02:10 - 15:07) - A bizarre condition that causes people to make repeated, quick movements or sounds that they cannot control. The patients shown in the documentary can’t help but utter obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks. If they saw a black person, for example, they’d shout the N word to their face but they actually don’t mean to say it, they just can’t help it… bizarre! As a result, they’re shunned by the society, they’re unemployed, they cannot even make a trip to the shopping mall without fearing to be arrested or physically assaulted by others who may take the derogatory remarks personally. Even their personal lives are affected.
2: Trichotillomania (15:10 - 23:23) - Hair-pulling disorder. Patients have a constant urge to pull or twist the hair until it breaks off, to the point of baldness. Patients are unable to stop this behaviour. The patient shown in this documentary wears hats and scarves to cover up the bald areas on her head and does not participate in extracurricular activities or sports and does not make friends for the fear of being exposed.
3: Narcolepsy (23:30 - 32:15)- A chronic sleep disorder characterized by excessive sleepiness. The patients can’t help but fall asleep all day long. The man shown in the documentary is unable to participate in daily activities e.g. taking a shower, going shopping, playing games, walking the dog, even cooking! Even when he’s eating, someone has to supervise him so he doesn’t fall asleep with his mouth full and end up choking himself. To make matters worse, sleep is brought upon by emotion, especially happiness. If something makes him laugh or excited, he automatically falls asleep with the blink of an eye and falls down right there, and has often been hurt very badly because of that.
Wow, I’ve heard of tourette syndrome but not the other two. Narcolepsy sounds the worst as literally the person would have no life if they fall asleep all the time.
The strangest one ive heard of is alien hand syndrome, where one hand has mind of its own and does as it wishes. So if you are walking by a shop, your hand will grab something of its own accord and you wont even realise until u see it.
A man was walking past an outside cafe and his hand grabbed a plate of cookie from the table, he walked a couple a steps before he realised, so he turned back and apologised to the shocked diners, but as soon as he turned away, his hand reached out and grabbed it again. He really had to physically control it with his other hand like it was a naughty child.
Another guy grabbed a toy from the shop, he stopped, returned the toy and apologised to security who came up behind him, then went on to grab it again. Security was really confused on what to do lol.
That's really strange and I feel horrible for people who suffer from these conditions. :( It must be really hard not to have control over ones own body.
I definitely recommend watching the documentary. It's really interesting - even though I had heard of tourettes I thought it was limited to ticks but it's a lot more then that. The guy in the documentary involuntarily swears as part of his tick. :/
I have seen some people play or twist their hair when they are thinking or doing a serious task. I wonder if that is a mild version of trichotillomani?
That's really strange and I feel horrible for people who suffer from these conditions. :( It must be really hard not to have control over ones own body.
I definitely recommend watching the documentary. It's really interesting - even though I had heard of tourettes I thought it was limited to ticks but it's a lot more then that. The guy in the documentary involuntarily swears as part of his tick. :/
I have seen some people play or twist their hair when they are thinking or doing a serious task. I wonder if that is a mild version of trichotillomani?
Gosh I hope not...coz I was thinking the same thing...as I do this when am stressed about something and think too much...I actually pull my hair out!
I thought the same about the Tourette syndrome. I was like no way, this guy has to be pretending! How can you not control obscene language etc? But then I browsed around a bit and realised it’s very real. No one would want to become a social outcast or put themselves in highly embarrassing/dangerous situations on purpose.
I don’t think that’s a syndrome of any sort. People do weird things when they’re nervous like shake their leg, bite their nails, grind their teeth, twist their hair… You only have something to worry about if you have an urge to pull your hair for no reason and if you have no control over it.
Jinx lol. Its not just that, one guy woke up to find his hand trying to strangle him. Imagine having to fear your own hand every night.
When he had to do something simple as switch off the lights his other hand would switch it on again several times. Its quite hard to do just normal routine stuff with that condition
It is true that human behavior varies from their habits and work as there are numerous things which change human behavior as some people have the disease of doing repetition of action such as pulling your hair and some people have excessive sleeping.
Wow, I’ve heard of tourette syndrome but not the other two. Narcolepsy sounds the worst as literally the person would have no life if they fall asleep all the time. 
seems like this syndrome was created by theives as excuse, lol.
People do weird things when they’re nervous like shake their leg, bite their nails, grind their teeth, twist their hair… You only have something to worry about if you have an urge to pull your hair for no reason and if you have no control over it.
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