Disconnective Neurological Disorder

Disconnective Neurological Disorder, or DND, is a mental illness in which a person's brain produces false mental sensory information, and becomes unable to distinguish these illusions from reality. Initially, the patient experiences various hallucinations which get worse and worse until the victim enters a coma and their brain creates a new, mental 'reality', which they believe is real life.

Causes

Typically after a head wound or impact, a patient has a low chance of contracting DND. This chance will increase with multiple intense wounds or injuries.

Symptoms

The patient will experience lifelike hallucinations that will progressively get worse over a short period of time. Eventually, they will enter a short coma, and when they awake, they are no longer able to receive sensory information from reality. Instead, their brains produce will produce a mental reality which seems lifelike.

Treatment

Before the patient enters the coma, a series of magical pulses applied to the brain can prevent damage. After the coma takes hold, the patient must be put through intense electrical shock to awaken them. This process is difficult, and has been likened to 'dragging a dead whale out of a pit of mud with one's tongue', by a doctor.

Prognosis

The patient will see hallucinations that get worse and worse before entering a coma, at which point their brain begins creating an entire new reality for them to inhabit. After this, their condition will remain stable and can do so for years on end, until they either wake up or die of another condition.

Prevention

Don't receive an intense head wound, impact, or injury.

Cultural Reception

People suffering from DND are typically viewed with sympathy. The knowledge of the intensity of the condition, combined with the patient's inability to realize what is happening, typically elicit strong reactions from others.

Origin

Natural

Cycle

Short-term

Rarity

Rare