Question

What's the most terrifying disease in existence?

Answer 1

FFI

Answer 2

SCHOOL TOO IS ONE DISEASE

Answer 3

YOU RE TAKING 3 HRS TO TYPE @thomaster

Answer 4

So far i've got:
- Trimethylaminuria (fish odor syndrome)
a permanent pathological scent of rotting fish clings to your body. It’s actually linked to your metabolism, which interferes with the body’s ability to break down break down trimethylamine — which builds up and is excreted through saliva, sweat and urine. And that pellet stinks bad!

-Cancrum Oris
This disease eats away tissue around the jaws so you become like a skullhead.

-Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
a disease where your body’s repair mechanism is completely broken, and starts “healing” the fibrous tissue (read muscles, tendons and ligaments) by turning them into bone. That’s right, your whole body is slowly being petrified, as you excruciatingly transform into a bone statue. At one point in life you have to choose if you want to be a sitting statue or a standing statue LOLOLOLOLOL

-Eumycetoma
chonic fungal disease of the foot. It's an entire tropical ecosytem established on your extermities.

-Elephantiasis
causes massive thickening of the skin and underlying tissue around the legs caused by a worm. It can also occur in male genitalia (scrotal elephantiasis), your testicles will swell to the size of basketballs

-Necrotizing fasciitis
AKA the flesh eating bacteria. Nasty pellet without a cure, you just have to cut a chunk of flesh out.

-Fatal Familial Insomnia (probably one of the worst evahr)
Inheritable untreatable condition. When you're around the age of 50 you will suffer insomnia so bad that you completely lose the ability to sleep! It's a drawn out death sencente over the course of 7-18 months with a promise of agony and madness. Sleeping pills will make it worse and speed up the disease. Another worse part is that your children will have a 50% chance to inherit the disease too before you even know you have it. Eventually you will hallucinate, become lunatic and demented.

-Porphyria
Also known as the vampire or the purple pellet disease. Victims of this disease deposit purple faeces in the can, their skin bubbles and boils when exposed to sunlight and they can only be treated with injections of blood. it is caused when heme, a part of hemoglobin, isn't produced properly

anyone got more messed up stuff?

Answer 5

Lol shyt is replaced with pellet xDDD

Answer 6

Also Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is pretty bad. it's like the mad cow disease and the prions causing this disease will destroy your entire brain. The same for FFI but those prions destroy the thalamus which regulates the sleep.

Answer 7

@telijahmed Do you know more nasty shyt? i love this stuff :)))

Answer 8

Those diseases sound pretty nasty. Especially the bacterial ones that slowly and progressively rot away your flesh.

Have you heard of "encephalitis lethargica"?
They call it the "Sleeping Sickness."

It came and went, right around the time of the Spanish Flu pandemic.

The patient is fine and dandy.
One day, they get a sore throat.
The next day, they experience raving hallucinations.
And then they slip into a catatonic, statue-like state.
After some time, they'll wake up.
And while it would seem that they've been in a coma, the fact is that they were fully conscious and aware. Yet completely unable to speak, or move, at all.

The aftermath lasts for the rest of the patient's life. Wildly violent behavior, and uncontrollable sexual urges.

Doctors were never able to explain the cause.

Answer 9

Here. I found an article:
http://theconversation.com/a-viral-infection-of-the-mind-the-curious-case-of-encephalitis-lethargica-660

Answer 10

Yes actually i have heard of sleeping sickness.
When they wake up it seems like they're posessed by an alien body snatcher xD

Answer 11

Yupp! Très freaky.

Answer 12

Also ebola, AIDS and the black death are good ones too :D

Answer 13

The plague, yep I agree. Especially since it hasn't been eradicated. It's a bit terrifying to try to imagine what it must have been like, to have lived among the pandemic.

Answer 14

Progeria is a bad one too.
Those ppl look like aliens lol

Answer 15

And Ondine's Curse
These patients have to voluntarily breathe, and if they forget to they will die. They have to remember to breathe in order to survive. A lot of infants who have the disease just die when they fall asleep.

Answer 16

Leparomatous Leprosy

Answer 17

Huh, I'd never heard of Ondine's Curse. Dreadful indeed.
It's also the first time I've seen a disease labeled as a "curse." I figured that there was an interesting story behind that. Sure enough, there was.

Answer 18

Leprosy is bad but treatable so it's not that terrifying :P

Ondine's curse is named to the myth of Ondine, a water nymph who had an unfaithful mortal lover. He swore to her that his "every waking breath would be a testimony of his love", and upon witnessing his adultery, she cursed that if he should fall asleep, he would forget to breathe. Eventually, he fell asleep from sheer exhaustion, and his breathing stopped.

Answer 19

But of course it't not an actual curse xD It's just a rare neurological condition causing failure of automatic respiration. It's also called congenital central hypoventilation syndrome.

Answer 20

lol Oh yeah I know it's not an actual curse. I think it's very interesting that it's commonly known by a name that was created from mythology. I can't think of any similar examples. Diseases that are named after myth.

Answer 21

How about hermaphroditism :P

The word "hermaphrodite" comes from a Greek mythological figure, Hermaphroditus, the son of Hermes and Aphrodite. He was raised by the nymphs of Mount Ida, and not surprisingly given his parentage, was very good looking. When Hermaphroditus was a teenager, he came upon a lake in Caria, located in modern southwestern Turkey. The guardian of the lake, a water nymph named Salmacis, took a liking to him instantly. She tried to seduce him, but Hermaphroditus wasn't interested. Instead, the cool, clear water of the lake attracted him, and he jumped in for a swim.

Once in the water, however, Hermaphroditus was on the nymph's turf, and Salmacis grabbed him and held him as tightly as she could. She then begged the gods that she and Hermaphroditus might stay together forever, and so their bodies were fused. Hermaphroditus thus became both man and woman. In art he was portrayed as having female breasts and male genitals. The only consolation for Hermaphroditus was that any man who also bathed in this lake would suffer the same fate

Answer 22

LOL if i did my homework like this i'd have way higher grades xD

Answer 23

lol I never knew the mythology behind that one! That's very interesting.

Weren't Hermes and Aphrodite siblings? I love that Greek mythology is full of incest and abomination.

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Have you heard of the Dancing Plague of 1518?
When some 400 people got up and just danced non-stop, until they dropped dead?

Answer 24

how about amyloidosis

Answer 25

Didn't hear of that but it sounds familiar to the jumping frenchmen of maine disease.
It's named after the french canadian lumberjacks who suddenly started jumping around and screaming like little girls like they were bewitched. And thats not everything, LOL best part--> they will enact every command as long as you shout it at them suddenly. So basicly they turn into dancing short term robot slaves. And they never figured out what caused it xD

Answer 26

how about celia disease not so terrifying though

Answer 27

chimerism too is one terrifying one

Answer 28

lol yeah it does sound like Jupming Frenchmen of Maine. I've heard of that one.

Answer 29

Jumping **

Answer 30

oooh jumping means something metaphorically

i m assuming

Answer 31

Cornu Cutaneum --> it makes you grow horns out of your ears (they're just nails though)

Answer 32

it's a satanic possession :D

Answer 33

ohhh teribble that is quite strange

Answer 34

Also a bad one:
panphobia -> afraid of everything LOL how must life be if your afraid of everyting hahaha
AND Polyglandular addison's disease -> those ppl can't produce adrenalin so when they get pranked on april 1st they'll die. A simple popping balloon could lead to your sudden and imminent demise because when adrenalin is supposed to kick in it won't and their organs go into shock.

Answer 35

ok diagnose this

recurrent sudden fear of all things around but not all the time

heat spells

sweating in your sleep

sharp pain in the head

weakness waking up every morning

abdominal pain

some days unceasing desire to eat

Answer 36

a huge mental trauma?
or is it a syndrome

Answer 37

maybe its anxiety

Answer 38

i would say a syndrome

it is a little complicated right but please figure it for me

Answer 39

you re good that is possible

the person isnt getting enough sleep maybe 5 hrs sometimes 3 hrs

doing about workload of 15 courses

Answer 40

chronical sleep deprivation? but doesnt explain the sudden fears

Answer 41

the fears seem to be paranoia according to me

it might be psychological due to overwork of the brain

Answer 42

Hmm sleep deprivation combined with a burn out? xD
Or does it have to be a specific syndrome with all of these symptoms?

Answer 43

i can be sure that your first answer ANXIETY has almost all the answers according to the patient

some things in medicine cant be explained without an MRI OR CT SCAN

SO TILL THAT IS DONE I DONT THINK WE LL BE ABLE TO KNOW FOR SURE

Answer 44

Maybe it's a specific type of anxiety disorder.
This site almost shows all of the symptoms.
http://www.calmclinic.com/anxiety/types#gsc.tab=0

Answer 45

angoraphobia is one of the symptoms too


and the desire to always achieve more after more

Answer 46

those symptoms i gave you are half of the symptoms

there are other unconsistent symptoms that make up more than a dozen

Answer 47

honestly the most terrifying and common disease on earth is FEAR I FORGOT THAT

I VE BEEN TRYING TO REMEMBER THAT SINCE YESTERDAY

FEAR IS EVERYWHERE ESPECIALLY THE FEAR TO FAIL IS THE MOST TERRIFYING

Answer 48

Maybe its Bipolar II disorder

symptoms are:
-Anxiety
-Insomnia
-Racing thoughts
-Irritability

Answer 49

possib;e 2

Answer 50

It also says that taking on many projects at once could be a symptom

Answer 51

could explain the overwork stuff

Answer 52

over work is doing 15 courses different ones and actually studying them all

Answer 53

@telijahmed did you diagnosed it already?

Answer 54

The Sleeping Sickness,Jumping Frenchmen of Maine,Nodding Syndrome,Brainerd Diarrhea, Porphyria, the Vampire/Purple pellet Disease

Answer 55

I think fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva is the most scary, yet somehow funny disease. It's kinda the opposite of osteogenesis imperfecta where your bones break like glass xD

Answer 56

I just read about that one. Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva.
Seriously?
It means that when our muscles and tendons become damaged, they turn into bone??

Answer 57

Yea i described it in the fourth post of this topic:

a disease where your body’s repair mechanism is completely broken, and starts “healing” the fibrous tissue (read muscles, tendons and ligaments) by turning them into bone. your whole body is slowly being petrified, as you excruciatingly transform into a bone statue. At one point in life you have to choose if you want to be a sitting statue or a standing statue LOLOLOLOLOL

Pretty nasty to have but somehow it sounds kinda funny xD being petrified by your own body

Answer 58

And its not only caused by damaged muscles and tendons, patients can also have "flare-ups" where the body suddenly decides that a muscle is broken while it is not.

Answer 59

Well that sucks.

Answer 60

Being eaten by a giant bone cancer lol yea that would suck bad

Answer 61

So either this one or fatal familial insomnia is the worst disease to have in my opinion.

Answer 62

Fatal Familial Insomnia. Fatal AND dominantly inherited. Scary. But good thing it's not only rare, but confines itself to family lineage.

Answer 63

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Answer 64

thanks, but i think i've read every top 5/10/20 of scary/terrible/funny diseases on the internet :P including these 2.