Protagoras Syndrome-

Description:
Named for an argument from Plato's dialouge "Protagoras". A mental disorder causing the patient to act without thinking.

Symptoms:
The patient will act according to whim and act without thinking. He often distorts that which he knows to be reality with an illusion brought on by circumstance. A situation where he would do the "right" thing will often end up with him doing the "wrong" thing. The cause of these actions is an over-abundance of primal emotions, for example: fear, love, joy, lust, etc.

Treatment:
The patient will need to undergo severe mental therapy, or experience a personal "wake-up call"
I suggest meditation on personal goals and who ones self is. All that is needed to avert the symptoms is a reality check, knowing and understanding the mistakes one is making and preventing them.

"Now the rest of the world are of oppinion that knowledge is a principle not of strength, or of rule, or of command: their notion is that a man may have knowledge, and yet that knowledge which is in him may be overmastered by anger, or pleasure, or pain, or love, or perhaps fear - just as if knowledge were a slave, and might be dragged about anyhow... that men are commonly supposed to know the things which are best, and not do them when they might? And most persons whom I have asked the reason of this have said that when men act contrary to knowledge they are overcome by pain, pleasure, or some of those affections which i was just now mentioning Yes, Socrates, he replied; and that is not the only point about which mankind are in error." - Plato's Protagoras