Introduction: Bizarre medical conditions

Bizarre medical conditions: Various unusual and unexpected medical disorders

Conditions list: The list of conditions in the Bizarre medical conditions group includes:

fatal familial insomnia - brain disorder causing gradual death from inability to fall asleep.
polydactyly - genetic disorder causing more than 5 fingers on a hand.
transgender disorders - unclear physical genital characteristics.
gender identity disorder - mental confusion as to gender identity
sex chromosome disorders - mixed up X and Y chromosomes with various types (XO, XXY, XYY, XXX, XXXX, etc. compared to normal XX females and XY males).
Guillain-Barre syndrome - loss of nerve sensation (sometimes massively so)
Acromegaly - hormonal disorder where parts of the body start to grow larger.
Bipolar disorder - moods range from depression to mania in cycles
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) - depression-like blue moods only in months of low sunshine.
Autoimmune diseases - more than 100 diseases where the body's immune system attacks itself
Primary Immune Deficiency - total lack of immune system; e.g. "bubble boy syndrome" (SCID)
Graft Versus Host Disease - when a transplanted organ attacks the new host body (the reverse of transplant rejection)
Cancers (type of Polygenic diseases) - all cancers are actually bizarre in their cause due to body cells replicating uncontrollably.
Paraneoplastic syndromes - cancer in one part of the body causes an autoimmune disease somewhere else.

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