The Walking Dead Syndrome
Imagine living in a distorted reality; where you aren’t actually aware of being a fully functioning human individual who is alive and breathing. This is what Cotard’s Delusion does to those affected with it. Being an exceptionally rare syndrome, there is not much known about it besides the few individual studies recorded over the years. Cotard’s Delusion is a mental illness where the person who has contracted this syndrome delusionally believes that they’re either already dead, have lost their soul, is rotting alive, doesn’t even exist, or have somehow lost their own internal organs or blood and will soon die. These series of illusions are what make up Cotard’s Syndrome. Another uncommon symptom would be to smell “their …show more content…
These parts of our head are basically for recognizing and associating emotions to any specific, recognizable face. Because this would cause a neural disconnection, the sufferer would sense that the face they percieve doesn’t belong to them, and they would lose any recognition that would normally be associated with that face. This causes a detachment with their surroundings. With this thought, if they see their own face in a mirror supposedly, then they wouldn’t be able to recognize themself anymore because they have lost their own sense of self already. This results in those affected to presume that they don’t even exist at this point. Another possible cause are from lesions in the temporal and frontal regions of the right hemisphere of our brain. Though this isn’t proven either, studies show that injuries like these have been associated with Cotard’s Syndrome …show more content…
It is now known that those at the highest risk for Cotard’s Syndrome are mainly the elderly suffering from depression. In addition women are also affected more frequently compared to men. Others that would be likely to contract this would be ones with disorders including: bipolar disorders, brain injuries or atrophies, strokes or migraines, brain tumors, seizure disorders, schizophrenia, depression or people in delirious states. The gist are mainly those who have been affected by conditions impacting the brain, people with mental disorders, older individuals who have depressive thoughts and those who are suffering from the consequences (like kidney failure) from an unfavorable reaction to
Imagine living in a distorted reality; where you aren’t actually aware of being a fully functioning human individual who is alive and breathing. This is what Cotard’s Delusion does to those affected with it. Being an exceptionally rare syndrome, there is not much known about it besides the few individual studies recorded over the years. Cotard’s Delusion is a mental illness where the person who has contracted this syndrome delusionally believes that they’re either already dead, have lost their soul, is rotting alive, doesn’t even exist, or have somehow lost their own internal organs or blood and will soon die. These series of illusions are what make up Cotard’s Syndrome. Another uncommon symptom would be to smell “their …show more content…
These parts of our head are basically for recognizing and associating emotions to any specific, recognizable face. Because this would cause a neural disconnection, the sufferer would sense that the face they percieve doesn’t belong to them, and they would lose any recognition that would normally be associated with that face. This causes a detachment with their surroundings. With this thought, if they see their own face in a mirror supposedly, then they wouldn’t be able to recognize themself anymore because they have lost their own sense of self already. This results in those affected to presume that they don’t even exist at this point. Another possible cause are from lesions in the temporal and frontal regions of the right hemisphere of our brain. Though this isn’t proven either, studies show that injuries like these have been associated with Cotard’s Syndrome …show more content…
It is now known that those at the highest risk for Cotard’s Syndrome are mainly the elderly suffering from depression. In addition women are also affected more frequently compared to men. Others that would be likely to contract this would be ones with disorders including: bipolar disorders, brain injuries or atrophies, strokes or migraines, brain tumors, seizure disorders, schizophrenia, depression or people in delirious states. The gist are mainly those who have been affected by conditions impacting the brain, people with mental disorders, older individuals who have depressive thoughts and those who are suffering from the consequences (like kidney failure) from an unfavorable reaction to