Health, Mental Health
Living Dead: Kotar Syndrome
Sometimes the human brain behaves in a strange way: he suddenly begins to deny his own existence.
Cotard syndrome. Symptoms
It is known that the disease manifests itself mainly to the middle of life, and in women much more often than men. There is no explanation for this, there is simply statistics. There is no connection with the health of patients, nor with their heredity or the growing environment. However, the symptoms of the disease, and very diverse, are established. Here they are:
- At the beginning of the disease, anxiety and irritability increase. Since these symptoms accompany various ailments, then only very experienced psychiatrists can establish a diagnosis at this stage.
- Patients begin to deny the existence of some internal organs. It is known that one of the sick people assured him that "instead of his heart something different". Some believe that some organs have rotted or disappeared.
- Gradually, if the Kotar syndrome is not treated, patients stop using the pronoun "I", so they have a greater degree of denial of themselves. "It", "it", "Madame Zero" - the patients find any impersonal form of designation of their personality and organism. Sometimes patients feel that they have already died.
- Gradually, the diseased are assured of their immensity and the impossibility of dying, which further intensifies the depressive state. They crave death, but are confident of their immortality, so they can sometimes commit suicide.
- At different stages of the disease, patients may be followed by auditory, visual or olfactory hallucinations, confirming their nihilistic mood.
To treat this mental illness, doctors usually use a complex of psychotropic drugs. The main goal of the treatment is the relief of the underlying problem (eg, depressive psychosis, schizophrenia, etc.).
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