Vacationing in these cities is dangerous for your mental health! Okay, it’s not funny if it happens to you. But you might find these these disorders I came up with in an internet search interesting:

Paris syndrome: When tourists in Paris are develop psychiatric symptoms (especailly delusions), apparently as a result of being overwhelmed by their culture shock as they face the reality of Paris after idealizing the city. Japanese tourists are especially vulnerable.

Jerusalem syndrome: When visitors to Jerusalem become delusional or obsessed with, usually, religious themes. Sometimes sufferers deliver long rather confused sermons in holy places, pleading with people to return to simple living.

Florence syndrome: When someone faced with magnifient works of art or with great natural beauty is overwhelmed and becomes faint, confused, and even delusional. A psychiatrist who treated many foreigners in the city’s mental hospitals first described the syndrome, and said it happened when the person identified too closely with the art.

Read some more about mental illnesses:

1. Twenty million mentally ill Indians, most of them suffering in secret

2. Almost half of Australians are mentally ill at some point in life

3. Iraqis with mental illness don’t seek treatment because of stigma

4. Many Bangladeshis are mentally ill