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Top 10 Diseases with Obscure Benefits
Not all diseases carry negativity. Some actually obscure, and surprising benefits. Here is just 10 diseases to prove my point.
10. Huntington’s Disease increases a person’s fertility
Huntington’s Disease: a devastating, hereditary, degenerative brain disorder for which there is, at present, no cure and only one FDA-approved treatment (Xenazine) for a symptom of HD. HD slowly diminishes the affected individual’s ability to walk, talk and reason.
For years researchers in neurology have been arguing that people with Huntington’s disease have more children than others because of behavioral changes associated with the disease. In a new Tufts University study, three researchers have challenged that notion by suggesting that people with Huntington’s have more children because they are healthier – not more promiscuous – during their peak reproductive years.
9. Syphilis makes the sufferer high
One of the oldest STDs, syphilis is also one of the most frightening ones, because of the side effects and symptoms. The excruciating pain caused by non–healing skin ulcers, so deep that they may reveal the bone, combined with such complications as liver failure and nervous system breakdown. Yikes!
However, as funny as it sounds, syphilis is able to bring some comforting symptoms to the sufferer in its very last stage, the Neurosyphilis, when it finally reaches the brain and starts to affect the sufferer’s neurology. Before reaching its fatal destination, the Neurosyphilis triggers physical reactions very similar to those triggered by prescription drug consumption
8. CIPA makes you pain-free… but dead.
How would you like to never experience pain? No more aching back, no more annoying stubbed toes, no more headaches from hangovers…
No more knowing whether you had a broken limb, no knowing if your appendix was about to burst, no realizing you had just cut yourself and were about to bleed out. Okay, maybe it’s not so great.
Congenital Insensitivity to Pain sounds like a great disease to have, until you actually think about it. No pain is great, but not realizing you’ve just severely injured yourself — just gave yourself third-degree burns, in fact — would suck.
As if that weren’t bad in itself, the onset for CIPA is also incredibly early, We’ve already imagined the possible horrors of having CIPA, but imagine a newly-mobile two year old with it, running around the living room. Imagine a kid who’s teething. Yeah. Thanks, but no thanks.
7. Bipolar people are more spiritual
Bipolar disorder can be a devastating illness. It affects approximately 1% of the population. If left untreated, it can result in suicide, ruined careers and devastated families. But for some people with Bipolar disorder, there comes an advantage – an increased sense of spirituality, creativity, and accomplishment. It may be that having bipolar disorder holds great potential, if one is able to master or effectively channel the energies, which are periodically available, to some higher task. It might also be of assistance to consider a reconceptualization. Perhaps instead of it being a disorder, we can think of people with bipolarity as having access to unusual potency.
6. Hyperthymesia gives you perfect recall
Imagine being able to remember everything you did on September 18th of last year; everything you ate for dinner for the month of May in 2003; every moment of your eleventh birthday.
Hyperthymesia is a neurological condition that bestows near-perfect recall on those who are afflicted with it. One of the most famous hyperthymesia cases is Jill Price, a 45 year old school administrator from California. She is able to remember everything that happened to her from 1980 onwards, everything. Price describes her experience in her book:
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