You may give characters defects or psychological disorders at any time, but you cannot obtain genetic disorders - your character has to be born with one of these, or must have their DNA mutated by a divine character.
list of defects
Ageusia: Inability to taste.
Anosmia: Inability to smell.
Blind: Inability to see.
Deaf: Inability to hear.
Tacticle Anesthesia: Inability to feel/loss of sense of touch.
Loss of other bodily functions or body parts also count as defects.
list of psychological disorders
Source: WrongDiagnosis.com
anxiety disorders
Acute Stress Disorder: Intense anxiety and disturbed behaviour, usually following a traumatic event/experience. This becomes PTSD if the symptoms continue for longer than a month.
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD): Chronic, exaggerated anxiety. Incorporates many of the other disorders listed in this section. Characterised by anxiety, irritability, trouble concentrating and startling easily.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Uncontrollable obsessive thoughts and compulsive acts. If you have OCD, you may be plagued by persistent, unwelcome thoughts or images, or by the urgent need to engage in certain rituals.
Panic Disorder: Prone to panic attacks characterised by a sudden, irrational fear. Symptoms can be so severe that first-time sufferers may think they are having a heart attack or dying.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD): A debilitating condition following a terrifying event or experience. Often, people with PTSD have persistent frightening thoughts and memories of their ordeal and feel emotionally numb, especially with people to whom they were once close.
Separation Anxiety Disorder: Excessive anxiety due to the removal of a significant person or familiar surroundings. Normal for young children; only becomes a disorder if it is persistent with age.
Social Phobia: Intense fear of being humiliated in social situations. Characterised by excessive self-consciousness.
Specific Phobias: Intense fear of a specific object which poses little or no actual danger.
Top 10 most common phobias (in real life):
Arachnophobia: Fear of spiders. Tends to affect women more than men.
Social phobias: Fear of social situations.
Aerophobia: Fear of flying.
Agoraphobia: Fear of situations in which escape is difficult, including crowded areas and wide open spaces. Approximately 1/3 people with panic disorders develop agoraphobia.
Claustrophobia: Fear of confined spaces.
Acrophobia: Fear of heights.
Emeteophobia: Fear of vomit.
Carcinophobia: Fear of cancer.
Brontophobia: Fear of thunder storms.
Necrophobia: Fear of death.
Source: Suite101.com
Top 10 most bizarre phobias (in real life):
Papaphobia: Fear of the Pope.
Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Trichophobia: Fear of loose hairs.
Nomophobia: Fear of being out of mobile phone contact.
Ephebiphobia: Fear of teenagers.
Scopophobia: Fear of being looked at.
Spectrophobia: Fear of mirrors.
Phagophobia: Fear of swallowing.
Vomitophobia: Fear of vomiting.
Triskaidekaphobia: Fear of the number 13.
Source: Oddee.com
depressive disorders
Bipolar Disorder: Also manic depression. A serious mental health disorder that manifests as periods of intense mania or euphoria that alternate with episodes of depression.
Depression: Chronic feelings of sadness or despair which intensify to the point where they affect a person's ability to function in everyday life.
Dysthymia: A milder form of MDD, characterised by low mood and lack of interest in daily life and fatigue.
Major Depressive Disorder: Depressed mood, poor self-esteem, reduced interest in previously enjoyable activities/socialising, sleeping problems.
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Normal mood broken by periods of depression at specific times of the year, usually in winter time although less commonly in summer.
Postnatal Depression: Depression following childbirth, characterised by lack of maternal affection for child.
personality disorders
Antisocial Personality Disorder: A psychiatric condition characterized by chronic behavioral and social problems which often involves criminal behaviour. Prone to aggression.
Avoidant Personality Disorder: Suffers feel they are inadequate in some way and tend to avoid social interaction because of a fear of humiliation, ridicule or rejection. These people are overly sensitive to criticism and their self-image is poor.
Conduct Disorder: Chronic behavioural and social problems, characterised by persistently disruptive behaviour, aggressive behaviour, deliberate rule-breaking, frequent lying and destructive behaviour (e.g. arson).
Dependent Personality Disorder: Excessive dependence on anther person. The patient has an abnormal need to be taken care of which causes them to become submissive and overly attached.
Histrionic Personality Disorder: Primarily characterised by attention-seeking behaviour but symptoms also include flamboyant behaviour, need for approval and need for reassurance.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Exaggerated sense of self-importance and individuality. The excessively crave attention and admiration and tend to be preoccupied by grandiose fantasies about themselves. They find interpersonal relationships difficult and tend to exploit others and lack empathy.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Characterized by repeated defiance, hostility, disobedience and negative behavior towards people in authority.
Paranoid Personality Disorder: Where the patient believes other people are hostile, devious or untrustworthy. They react badly to disappointment or perceived humiliation, tend to bear grudges and have unfounded suspicions of friends and partners.
Schizoid Personality Disorder: Characterised by emotional coldness, indifference and criticism of others. Symptoms include difficulty with intimacy, social isolation and paranoid beliefs.
behavioural disorders
Addictions: Uncontrolled cravings, obsessive thoughts and focused energy on one specific (usually consumable) item.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Interferes with a person's capacity to have normal activity levels (hyperactivity), hold back on impulsive behavior (impulsivity), and focus on tasks (inattention) in developmentally correct ways. Symptoms include poor attention span, failure to listen to instructions and becoming bored/distracted easily.
Autism: Causes impaired social interactions and problems with communication. Symptoms include not looking at people, not responding to name, not smiling and avoiding eye contact.
Rett's Syndrome: Individuals exhibit reduced muscle tone, autistic-like behavior, hand movements consisting mainly of wringing and waving, loss of purposeful use of the hands, diminished ability to express feelings, avoidance of eye contact, a lag in brain and head growth, gait abnormalities, and seizures.
Top 10 most common addictions (in real life):
1. Alcohol
2. Nicotine/smoking
3. Drugs
4. Gambling
5. Food
6. Video games
7. Internet
8. Sex
9. Shopping
10. Work
Source: Brainz.org
psychotic disorders
Brief Psychotic Disorder: Lasts between a day and a month. Symptoms include catatonic behaviour, disorganised speech/thinking and unusual behaviour.
Delusional Disorder: Persisting delusional (false) beliefs.
Schizophrenia: Schizophrenia is characterized by hallucinations, alterations in sensory perceptions, and delusions, which are false beliefs. It is a complicated illness with a large variety of symptoms which include apathy, echolalia, disorganised speech/behaviour, loss of drive, cataleptic stupor and bizarre postures.
eating disorders
Anorexia Nervosa: A disorder where a distorted sense of body image leads to self-starvation to the point of death in some cases. Symptoms include obsession with weight and intense fear of gaining weight despite being thin, distorted body image and denial of low weight.
Binge Eating Disorder: Excessive overeating but without purging. Symptoms include secrecy and isolation when binging, eating when not hungry and eating until uncomfortably full.
Bulimia Nervosa: Eating disorder with repeated cycles of binging (overeating) and purging (vomiting).
Disordered Eating: Unusual and troubled eating habits. Symptoms include restrictive dieting, infrequent binging/purging, laxative abuse and diet pills.
Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (ENDOS): Eating disorder that does not match a specific category, e.g. anorexia-like behavior but with normal weight or bulimia-like behavior with infrequent purging.
list of genetic disorders
Angelman Syndrome: A neuro-genetic disorder characterized by intellectual and developmental delay, sleep disturbance, seizures, jerky movements (especially hand-flapping), frequent laughter or smiling, and usually a happy demeanor.
Canavan Disease: Degenerative disorder. Symptoms include mental retardation, loss of motor skills, feeding difficulties and abnormal muscle tone (e.g. stiffness/floppiness).
Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease: Characterized by loss of muscle tissue and touch sensation, predominantly in the feet and legs but also in the hands and arms in the advanced stages of disease.
Coeliac Disease: Severe allergy to gluten. Consumption of gluten causes chronic diarrhoea and fatigue.
Colour Blindness: Inability to perceive differences between some of the colors that others can distinguish. Not always genetic; damage to the eye can cause colour-blindness.
Cri Du Chat Syndrome: Caused by a deletion of a small piece of chromosome 5. Symptoms include excessive drooling in infancy, constipation, behavioural problems, severe cognitive, speech and motor delays and feeding problems because of difficulty swallowing/sucking.
Cystic Fibrosis: Degenerative illness often associated with an early death. Symptoms include infertility and excessive thick mucus which causes breathing difficulties.
DiGeorgie Syndrome: Caused by a deletion of a small piece of chromosome 22. Symptoms include learning difficulties, congenital heart disease, hearing loss and seizures.
Down Syndrome: Caused by an extra chromosome 21. Symptoms include mental retardation, speech delay and slow development. Physical attributes include broad forehead, small chin, small eyes, a large tongue and a short neck.
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: Characterized by rapid progression of muscle degeneration, eventually leading to loss of ambulation and death. Symptoms include falls, fatigue and progressive difficulty walking.
Haemochromatosis: Caused by excess iron in the blood stream. Symptoms include arthritis, diabetes and testicular failure.
Haemophilia: Impairs the body's ability to control blood clotting. Symptoms are generally internal or external bleeding episodes.
Klinefelter's Syndrome: Where males have an extra X chromosome (XXY instead of XY). Symptoms include small testicles and reduced fertility.
Neurofibromatosis: Causes growth of tumours. The tumors may cause bumps under the skin, colored spots, skeletal problems, pressure on spinal nerve roots, and other neurological problems.
Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD): Characterized by the presence of multiple cysts in both kidneys. Symptoms include abdominal discomfort and renal pain.
Prader-Willi Syndrome: Symptoms include infertility, obesity, learning disabilities and extreme flexibility. Physical attributes include soft skin, small hands/feet and a high, narrowed forehead.
Turner Syndrome: All or part of one of the sex chromosomes is missing. Symptoms include poor breast development, short stature, low hairline, broad chest, webbed neck and infertility.
Source: Wikipedia.org
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