Syndromes named after places

1. Stockholm

Probably the most famous syndrome is Stockholm syndrome. It’s about situation when a kidnapped person begins to start feeling empathy or love for their victims. The most famous example for Stockholm is syndrome is “Beauty and the Beast”.

 

2. Paris

Paris syndrome is that when somebody visits to Paris for the first time and they think that they will live very special feeling and everybody is romantic and beloved in Paris but when they face that they are living normal life, it makes them to be depressed. Mostly Japanese people can be affected from this situation.

3. Jerusalem

Jerusalem syndrome is a religious version of Paris syndrome. Most of people effect from this religious atmosphere and think that they are Christ or another religious person.

4. Sarajevo

I think this is the saddest syndrome. Sarajevo syndrome is a post-traumatic stress disorder particular to people who survived the bloody wars in Yugoslavia. People have fear about those awful days can come back and they live stress of it.

  

5. London

The opposite of Stockholm syndrome is London syndrome. It is about when a kidnapper starts feeling special feelings for their hostages. You can see a lot of movies about this syndrome. As well as, you can call it Lima syndrome, too because it is totally same.

6. Helsinki

Helsinki syndrome is related to official meetings where people thinks together but they make bad and poor decisions based upon baseless idealism.

7. Florence

Also known as Stendhal syndrome, Florence syndrome is when you see amazing art works, your body goes to react it differently. And it can touch you and even it can end up with fainting.