What are some of the creepiest mental conditions you've ever encountered? A lot of people know about

phantom limb syndrome, in which someone continues to feel as if their limb is still there after it's been

amputated, often in great pain. Another interesting one that not many people know about, and is almost

kind of an opposite, is body integrity identity disorder, which is when a person has extremely strong feelings

that one or more of their limbs doesn't belong to them, despite being functional, and often

they really want to amputate. From their descriptions, it seems that it's actually very

psychologically painful, sometimes to the point where they will self-amputate because no doctor

is willing to amputate a healthy limb.

I once read a short fictional story where the narrator is talking about the terrifying,

deformed growths on his hands and is frustrated that everyone is downplaying his worries and

pretending he's normal. Eventually, by the end, he decides to deal with it himself, and he uses

power tools to remove

all ten of the disgusting growths. This sounds slightly like what I experienced a lot going through

puberty. I felt as though my member wasn't actually mine. I had thoughts constantly about wanting

to try and get rid of it with a pair of gardening shears, but I could never actually build up

the willpower to do it. I never felt actual physical pain from it, but I could never actually build up the willpower to do it.

I never felt actual physical pain from it, but I remember lying in bed at night in emotional

and mental pain, trying to figure out why I was so uncomfortable with myself.

Eventually, by the end of my sophomore year of high school, I was able to accept that even

though it may seem like it isn't an actual part of me. In reality, my member was mine, no one else's, and that's how it had to be.

This was only accomplished by losing my virginity.

I've never heard of anything more psychologically incredible than a fugue state,

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