There are people who are alive, but who are convinced they are dead. It’s called Cotard Syndrome and it’s one of the most bizarre and intriguing disorders we’ve ever heard of. Laci details what’s going on inside these people’s heads.
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Mindscapes: First interview with a dead man
“Nine years ago, Graham woke up and discovered he was dead.”
Cotard’s delusion or syndrome?: A conceptual history
“This report offers an account of the historical construction of Cotard’s syndrome showing that by délire des négations the French author meant a subtype of depressive illness.”
Charles Bonnet’s description of Cotard’s delusion and reduplicative paramnesia in an elderly patient (1788)
“An elderly woman developed the delusion that she was dead (‘Cotard’s delusion’) and that she was in another place (‘reduplicative paramnesia’).”
What is Cotard’s Syndrome?
“Ever have those days where you feel like a zombie? Feel dead tired and out of it?”
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39 comments
they're stupid
what if there right and were wrong
UNLESS YOU A ZOMBIE
Ok wtf did I just click on really!? I thought this was gonna have some real life zombie type shit in the vid!! Y'all got some dweeb tryin to explain about this rare condition (with no pics or video evidence) gtfoh!
That's actually pretty interesting, but I'd assume one wouldn't make a good impression on someone.
Could they be emo af?
O h n o , i t s l a c e y g r e e n !
does this include emotionally dead in Cotard's Syndrome.
I love LACI… Very much
Lacy green.. Are you okay? You look like frenzied..
Im ere cuz of hannibal
So that's how zombies are born .
You are so pretty lacy green😍😘😘😍
Love you laci green…
seems like the opposite of phantom limb syndrome.
If somebody cannot respond to the stimulus then how come are you able to know that one THINKS that he/she is dead?
Is she riley reid? Same same
i am now dealing with cotards syndrome for the second time and i realize thats what it is because it is jusy starting and ive had it before. mine is brought on by extreme depression anxiety and schizophrenia
ya now it happen me
My friend says he's already dead, how can I help him?
Is anyone else annoyed that she says “pet scan” instead of cat scan lol
I guess they never heard of "I think, therefore I am".
Or, on second thought, perhaps they just don't think. Sounds about right, given the circumstances.
So basically Cotard's delusion is a scientific way of saying emo
How can you avoid it
So when a patient is diagnosed, can we refer to them as “Cotarded?” 🤔
I ve seen a real case !! In West Covina pyche unit a middle aged man would wander around yelling "shoot me in the head!, I'm dead inside"and when the nurses should do vital checks, he wouldn't fight them but he would verbally argue how he couldn't have a blood pressure since he was dead and complalin he didn't need to rather he often would do it any way the nurses made him. I think he must've had brain damage or electri-shock-t because he had a real slow goonies like speech pattern, but he was so funny, he'd be wandering around wailing "shoot me in the head" all night (it was a courtyard style hospital, so a lot of us would get annoyed an my arch over and tell him to lay down and close his eyes like dead people actuatdo and he'd just politely say, ok and lay down for like 10 minutes until he started up again…Ive been to inpatient like 30 times and I now consider it a privilege to have seen him like a birdwatcher seeing some rare exotic few others have ever seen, lol…..I'm a supposed manic depressant myself by I know believe it to be an intense prolonged Kundalini awakening and cherish the amount of case studies I've seen over the years and find a deeply spiritual link to most pyche issues, I hope to work in the holistic side of the field one day because western medicine is far more damaging than useful for this side of life,. And I can say that with decades worth of experience and observation. The meds cause too many long term health issues and secondary problems. The west Completely Overlooks energy work and the now probable etheric nature of being. Just saying.
Laci Green could be reporting on a massacre at Disneyland or the San Andreas fault Big One and she'd still sound perky.
Isn’t this girl that home wrecker person-
I've had this back in July. It was so gross! I thought my flesh was rotting and I was feeling bugs crawling under my flesh and I thought my blood froze in the veins etc!
Who is here after facttechz?
For anyone wanting to read about real life experiences and compare notes or something which is why I came here. A friend of mine has started having these insane delusions manifest publically now. They have been on/off for years with delusional imaginitive thinking. In the past they believed they were a spirit guide and went to sleep and lived in a spirit world with other spirit guides as family. but they have always felt they were never quite here, always described it as being a living corpse. It's gotten worse to the point they described themself as a mummy, having a past life in ancient egypt and relations to tiamat and other historical ancient legends. They claimed to have died in a car crash and somehow are placed in the body of a dead boy. When they tried to cut their arm they said that they couldn't do it because the bandages and rotten flesh underneath the skin would not cut completely. They claim they don't feel the need to eat or sleep because they are dead and their body doesn't need it. It got to a point where their delusion has almost caused them to cause harm to me, and it's actually really depressing and I wish I'd have told them sooner that none of those things were real instead of humoring what they were trying to say.
wow, interesting
never had this
I think that perhaps Mademoiselle X was mistaken when she said she had no intestines, no digestive organs and that she didn't need to eat. Bad idea
"Try and tell me that zombies aren't real" girl living with cotard syndrome is not nice ! Stop making it a joke ,you have never experienced it
Watching this thought i would gain knowledge about this syndrome I have ….and to have u making it a joke …wow i can't be more offended
Is people like u who incorage others to restrain from actually understanding people with cotard
U incoraging people to make this a joke which is stupid
And wipe that grin off of ur face It ain't cute
dead from the band mayhem pretty sure that this is what he suffered from
I feel like this is some sort of chronic infection that we aren't able to test for yet
BS
Well, if she died, that proves she was wrong and she was not immortal. I wonder whether she realized she was mistaken when she knew she was dying
anyone here because of Pelle Ohlin?