Zombies And The Cotard Syndrome

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Cotard Syndrome
Zombies are real, but not like those in stories on the big screen. Real zombies and vampires are regular people who suffer from a mental condition called, Cotard Syndrome. Cotard's syndrome, is a rare mental disorder, those with cotard syndrome have delusional belief that they are already dead. This syndrome is also known as the Walking Corpse Syndrome. These delusions can range from believing one is dead, are putrefying, do not exist, or have lost their blood and organs. This mental disorder was brought to the attention in the 1880‘s, by Jules Cotard, who described a delusion he called “delusion of negations”. Cotard Syndrome is mostly a certain type of depression.
Dr. Jules Cotard, was a French neurologist with a military background, who is most famous for the describing this mental condition in the 1880’s. Dr. Cotard died in the year of 1889. Cotard syndrome was named after him. He described these delusions as a certain severe forms of chronic anxiety. Dr. Cotard describes some of the six major symptoms, which are melancholic anxiety, ideas of damnation and diabolic possession, in other words demon-pathy, disposition towards suicide or self injury, analgesia, hypochondriac ideas of nonexistence or destruction of organs or the entire body, of the soul, or of God, etc.
Cases Reported with Cotard Syndrome
Patient one, a man attempted to commit suicide, by electrocuting himself because of depression. After the incident, he told his psychiatrist, that his brain was dead, but his body was living. That he no longer needed to eat or sleep. However he acknowledged that his mind was alive, but could not understand if his brain was dead how his mind could be alive. Still though he kept insisting his brain was dead. Psyc...

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...s amount and that puts your kidneys under a lot of stress, since the body cannot break down lithium chemicals that well. Mood stabilizer help to sedate a person with severe mood disorders. People suffering from cotard syndrome are usually disoriented and depressed that they need mood stabilizers so they do not cause harm to themselves or others around them.
However out of all the medication listed for most mental disorders, electroconvulsive therapy, has the most positive effect for cotard syndrome. It is commonly known as electroshock treatment. The patients are electronically given seizures to give the relief from their psychiatric illnesses. Women are more likely to go under electroshock treat, seeing as they are more likely to go into depression. Electroshock treatment is usually given as a last result for most major depression disorders, like cotard syndrome.

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