psychiatric
Cotard delusion
Cotard's , also known as Cotard's delusion or walking corpse syndrome, is a rare mental disorder in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that they are deceased, do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs. Statistical analysis of a hundred-patient indicated that denial of self-existence is present in 45% of the cases of Cotard's syndrome; the other 55% of the patients presented with delusions of immortality.
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Symptoms — what it feels like
- ·Delusion that one does not exist, is dead, missing organs, limbs, blood, or is incapable of dying (immortal)
How it's found
- · evaluation
Complications
- ·Self-harm, suicide
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