Real-life vampire is addicted to blood and catches the eye of doctors

Vampires have always existed only in fantasy tales and popular imagination, but blood drinkers may be more real than imagined, at least that's what a macabre case in Turkey has been revealing.

Doctors reported the existence of something that has been called the "real life vampire." The case study is a 23-year-old married man with a normal appearance who feels the constant need for blood, "as urgent as breathing."

The boy, who had no hometown and no name revealed, proceeded to cut his own arms, chest and belly with razors to let the blood drip into glasses and then drink the contents.

However, before long he had to look for other sources and was arrested several times after stabbing and biting people to collect and drink the blood. In addition, the young man apparently forces his father to steal bags from blood banks so he can drink. The study was done late last year, but only published this week in the Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.

Personality disorder

According to the researchers, several traumatic events may have contributed to the patient's condition, such as the fact that his 4-month-old daughter became ill and died, and witnessed two violent murders, including that of his own uncle and a man who died. his head was torn off, his genitals were torn apart.

The man was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (better known as multiple personality), alcoholism, posttraumatic disorder and chronic depression. Doctors say this is the first time the sum of "vampirism" with personality disorder has been found in a patient.

Although the case links the young man's behavior with vampire tales, there is nothing different about the patient's body, which makes doctors point out that the human body does not react well when digesting blood in large quantities. which can cause dozens of complications, as well as the transmission of disease to victims.