Bathomania (Lamo's Disorder)
Bathomania is a disorder where the patient will feel an obsessive urge to go to deeper places. While this usually refers to deep water, subjects have been known to also decent into caves, canyons or even basements. Onset is believed to occur spontaneously and no correlation has been found between religion, culture or geographic location.
As such sleep therapy has been recommended and has found great success as a treatment.
Psychopathology
While bathomania refers to a general pattern of behaviour, which results in individuals continuously trying to find deeper places, three behavioural patterns are considered to be self-contained within the framework of bathomaniaBathotolis
Subjects describe that they are being summoned or commanded to reach deeper lying regions. People who suffer from Bathotolis, enter a spontaneous dreamlike state, although being awake. Additionaly a commonality among individuals who show this behaviorism, typically report suffering from insomnia or having faced long term sleep deprivation.As such sleep therapy has been recommended and has found great success as a treatment.
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