David Fitzpatrick, a sufferer of dissociative fugue disorder, from the United Kingdom, was profiled on Five's television series Extraordinary People.

A phobia ( from the, Phóbos, meaning " fear " or " morbid fear ") is, when used in the context of clinical psychology, a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed, often being recognized as irrational.

Thus the principles of AA have been used to form many numbers of other fellowships for those recovering from various pathologies, each of which in turn emphasizes recovery from the specific malady which brought the sufferer into the fellowship.

As doctor Byron Plant explains: " Vaccination is the more commonly used term, which actually consists of a " safe " injection of a sample taken from a cow suffering from cowpox ... Inoculation, a practice probably as old as the disease itself, is the injection of the variola virus taken from a pustule or scab of a smallpox sufferer into the superficial layers of the skin, commonly on the upper arm of the subject.

BDD is a disorder resulting in the sufferer becoming “ preoccupied with what they regard as defects in their bodies or faces .” While 2 % of people suffer from body dysmorphic disorder in the United States, 15 % of patients seeing a dermatologist and cosmetic surgeons have the disorder.

For some, prolonged attacks can occur, lasting from several days to several weeks, often causing the sufferer to be severely incapacitated.

It can refer to a female individual who suffers from anorexia but still has her period, someone who may be at a " healthy weight ", but who has anorexic thought patterns and behaviors, it can mean the sufferer equally participates in some anorexic as well as bulimic behaviors ( sometimes referred to as purge-type anorexia ), or to any combination of eating disorder behaviors which do not directly put them in a separate category.

Agoraphobia ( from Greek ἀγορά, " marketplace "; and φόβος / φοβία ,-phobia ) is an anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety in situations where the sufferer perceives the environment to be difficult or embarrassing to escape.

Panic attacks usually begin abruptly, may reach a peak within 10 minutes, but may continue for much longer if the sufferer had the attack triggered by a situation from which they are not able to escape.

In panic attacks that continue unabated, and are triggered by a situation from which the sufferer desires to escape, some sufferers may make frantic efforts to escape, which may be violent if others attempt to contain the sufferer.

Henslow, a thirty-year-old sufferer from manic depression, had been a Scientology staff member for two weeks when she disconnected.

Grandiose delusions are distinct from grandiosity, in that the sufferer does not have insight into his loss of touch with reality.

The man who escaped from the blazing house, having recovered, would have tried to help and console the other sufferer ; and the latter might have realized that he was the victim of circumstances over which neither of them had control.

It prevented the sufferer from damaging clothes or furniture, and from injuring staff or fellow inmates.

He wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy largely to write himself out of being a lifelong sufferer from depression.

: Though less well supported by evidence, a sufferer may benefit from avoiding foods that trigger their symptoms.

and he was ever after a sufferer from that torturing disease.

" Planted memories " differ from false memories in that the sufferer was very suggestible following or during hypnotherapy.

Psychological pressure to " perform " sexually or become aroused quickly with a partner can deter the sufferer from future attempts and / or cause her vaginismus to become more severe.

I know of no other solution than the one N.C. proposes -- to do what we can for each sufferer as he confronts us, hoping that this will spread beyond him to others at some time and some place.

As the sufferer approaches a phobic stimulus, anxiety levels increase ( e. g. as one gets closer to a snake, fear increases in ophidiophobia ), and the degree to which escape of the phobic stimulus is limited and has the effect of varying the intensity of fear in instances such as riding an elevator ( e. g. anxiety increases at the midway point between floors and decreases when the floor is reached and the doors open ).

Generating alternative behaviours that the sufferer can engage in instead of self-harm is one successful behavioural method that is employed to avoid self-harm.

There are several forms and degrees of deficiency, principally depending on whether the sufferer has one or two copies of the affected gene because it is a codominant trait.

The sufferer may feel this phobia all the time, or only when something triggers the fear, like a close encounter with a dead animal or the funeral of a loved one or friend.

And fourthly, that the doctor being himself a mortal man, should be diligent and tender in relieving his suffering patients, inasmuch as he himself must one day be a like sufferer.

Norma rationalizes that they could make good use of the money and that the one who dies might be some Chinese peasant or cancer sufferer who is living a miserable life.

Because the genetic disorder is incompletely recessive, a person with only one SCA allele and one unaffected allele will have a " mixed " phenotype: The sufferer will not experience the ill effects of the disease, yet will still possess a sickle cell trait, whereby some of the red blood cells undergo benign effects of SCA, but nothing severe enough to be harmful.

She learns one day, that her brother Declan, who is homosexual, has been a sufferer of AIDS for years, and refused to tell her until then.

The sufferer was bound ( usually at their wrists ) and suspended, lifted slowly and dropped one or more times.

Yet Ludlow was earnest in his description of the horrors of withdrawal, adding that “ f, from a human distaste of dwelling too long upon the horrible, I have been led to speak so lightly of the facts of this part of my experience that any man may think the returning way of ascent an easy one, and dare the downward road of ingress, I would repair the fault with whatever of painfully-elaborated prophecy of wretchedness may be in my power, for through all this time I was indeed a greater sufferer than any bodily pain could possibly make me .”

Daya, cognitively, observes alien pain ; affectively, it gets touched by it and moves with affectional responses for the sufferer ; and cognitively it moves one to act mercifully, pityingly, with kindness and forgiveness.

Once able to view himself or herself as a sufferer, not one who caused suffering, the survivor can mourn and continue with life.

Therefore, learn who the sufferer is and who he is who suffers along with the sufferer ... This one is the passover of our salvation ".

Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.

The field of psychosomatic medicine fell into disrepute clinically due to this incorrect use of this term, which was largely due to the influence of psychoanalytic theory on psychiatric physicians and the inaccurate application by non-specialists in the first part of the 20th century who considered this form of illness to be akin to malingering, thereby further harming the sufferer.

Her choice then was as the suicidal Hester Collyer, who meets a fellow sufferer, Mr. Miller ( played by Herbert Berghof ), in Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea.

* Charles Sanders Peirce, who has been called "... the greatest American thinker ever ," was a sufferer for most of his life.

Here Thököly came into contact with refugees from Royal Hungary ( more exactly from present-day Slovakia ), who had great hopes of the high-born, highly gifted youth who was also a fellow sufferer, a large portion of his immense estates having been confiscated by the Emperor.

Dent was an Australian prostate cancer sufferer who became Australia's first person to lawfully end his life by means of physician assisted suicide.

The object of attachment may be a peer, but the term can also be used to describe the fondness of a child for an adult, for example, students being attracted to their teachers, their friends ' parents, or children to older celebrities: indeed, some consider that in puppy love ' usually the object of such infatuation is some highly idealised person who is some years older-a teacher, an uncle or aunt, a friend of the family, an actor, or rock star ' - and typically the sufferer ' greatly moved with emotion ... spend much time in daydreams and wishful fantasies ' about them.

Therefore, the original sufferer is likely to dampen her feelings to be in " concord " with the degree of sentiment expressible by the other person, who feels only due to the ability of one's imagination.

A sufferer who has not yet experienced asthma or aspirin sensitivity might be diagnosed as having:

Research participant R. M., a Bálint's syndrome sufferer who is unable to focus attention on individual objects, experiences illusory conjunctions when presented with simple stimuli such as a " blue O " or a " red T ." For 23 % of trials, even when able to view the stimulus for as long as 10 seconds, R. M.

* Kazi Nazrul Islam ( 24 May 1899 – 29 August 1976 ), Bengali poet, musician and revolutionary who pioneered poetic works espousing intense spiritual rebellion against fascism and oppression, was a lifelong sufferer of this disease ( approx.

Sheila, who, in order to remedy the unawareness apparent in people of conjoined twin myslexia, decides to help the woman, although Gerald's Freudian slips serve only to make the issue worse, and winds up causing a " Conjoined Twin Myslexia Week " declared in South Park for its sole sufferer.

* Being confused about where the sufferer is ( e. g. thinking he or she is in the bathroom and starting to undress ), who they are interacting with ( e. g. care home staff may be confused with the sufferer's wife or girlfriend and then be touched )