1Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder
People who are prone to staying up past midnight and sleeping in till afternoon could possibly have a circadian rhythm dysfunction known as Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder.
2Puberphonia
There is a voice disorder called Puberphonia where a person continues to speak like an adolescent after puberty.
3Busy Life Syndrome
Busy Life Syndrome is a real disorder causing forgetfulness and lack of concentration in people who take in too much information daily.
4Night Eating Syndrome
Night Eating Syndrome is an eating disorder in which 25% or more of the day's calories are consumed after the evening meal, habitual waking in the night to eat, and the belief that one must eat in order to fall back to sleep.
5Boreout
There is a psychological disorder called “Boreout” (Boredom burnout syndrome), which is used to describe the boredom of office employees. It can lead to psychological illnesses such as depression as well as physical illnesses.
6Maple Syrup Urine Disease
There is a rare medical disorder in infants called “Maple Syrup Urine Disease,” where the child's urine smells of maple syrup or burnt sugar and it can be fatal.
7Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
A rare connective tissue disorder known as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is characterized by hypermobile joints and a deficiency in collagen (connective tissue) that results in pain and repeated injury. It often takes an average of 10 to 20 years to receive a diagnosis of EDS -- many in their 40s.
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8Dermatillomania
Dermatillomania is a mental disorder characterized by the urge or impulse to repeatedly pick scabs.
9Ideomotor apraxia
Ideomotor apraxia is a neurological disorder where people are unable to mentally picture and perform something by the command (please pretend to answer a phone) but can instinctively do the same thing when not asked (phone rings, person proceeds to pick up phone instinctively).
10Amusia
Amusia is a musical disorder that prevents those affected from being able to hear music. Most sufferers of amusia describe music as unpleasant. Others simply refer to it as noise and find it annoying.
