Brooke Greenberg, a 20-year-old Maryland resident, is amazingly the size of a preschooler.

Source: Daily Mail

Weighing just four-pounds at birth, she suffered from a condition known as anterior hip dislocation, which caused her legs to swivel up toward the shoulders. Although surgeons corrected the problem, during the next six years she suffered many medical emergencies that included a stroke, seven perforated ulcers and a brain tumor that simply disappeared on its own, baffling her doctors.

When she was approximately five years old, Brooke simply ceased growing. Growth hormones had no effect on her condition. Dr. Richard Walker, an endocrine physiology specialist at the University of South Florida’s College of Medicine, eventually determined that Brooke’s condition is because her central control genes failed. Doctors termed the ailment “Syndrome X.”

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The human being is a curious creature and its mind is even curiouser. Here are the seven craziest mental diseases that can plague the mind:

Autophagia

Autophagia is a mental disease in which the sufferer is compelled to inflict pain on themselves. The twisted part is that the pain comes in the form of biting and/or devouring portions of their body. The disease may be caused by severe sexual anxiety sometimes combined with schizophrenia or psychosis.

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Trichotillomania is an unusual disease often triggered by stress, depression or a defective gene. People who suffer from this disease tend to pull out the hairs from their head, eyelashes, nose and even crotch.

Latah is a disease in which the sufferer falls into a trance and becomes completely unaware of their actions. People who suffer from this ailment are referred to as latahs and in their trance-state will mimic the speech and actions of those around them and obey all commands given to them.

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