How Lewis Carroll’s Alice Inspired A Mental Disorder where everything seems out of proportions

Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland had the protagonist Alice sojourning through a magical Wonderland.

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During the journey, she ‘shrinks’ or ‘gigantically grows up’, thanks to magic mushrooms.

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She also experiences shifting worlds as she travels through doors, chimneys, and rabbit holes.

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Alice’s ‘world’ was considered a work of fiction till 1955. Dr. John Todd, a British psychiatrist, discovered that some of his mentally ill patients at High Royds Hospital

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suffered from a distortion of perception, loss of time and touch, hallucinations, and headaches. From his observations, he minted this as the Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS).

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