Doctors
say they have treated a man with multiple personalities who was
addicted to drinking blood—sort of a vampire, LiveScience reports.
They caught on to the 23-year-old after
he was arrested for biting and stabbing people in an effort to collect
blood. He also had his father bring him bags of blood from a blood bank,
according to the study in Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.
Doctors have traced the man's behavior
to traumas dating back to his childhood. His mother's tendency to "freak
out" and attack him may have triggered his multiple personalities, or
dissociative identity disorder.
But his traumas in later life were more
severe, including the death of his 4-year-old daughter, the killing of
his uncle, and the sight of a murder in which "one of his friends cut
off the victim's head and penìs," the researchers write.
Six weeks after his treatment, doctors
found his blood-lust in remission but dissociative symptoms ongoing. The
man also said his "drugs were merely sleeping pills, they would not
cure him."
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