Walking Corpse Syndrome That Makes People Believe They’re Dead

People with walking corpse syndrome, also known as Cotard syndrome; feel like they are dead, believe they are dead, or acknowledging that they are dead they continue to live.

Even, cases that spend their time in cemeteries even found. Let’s take a closer look at the details of the interesting case and what kind of disorder walking corpse syndrome is.

It is not known exactly what causes the syndrome or how to treat it.

Although there is no definitive treatment for the syndrome, severe cases are kept under observation, while other patients are treated with medication and electric shock to the brain can be applied. Since its frequency is as rare as 0.57%, we do not have enough cases and therefore nothing can be said for sure about what causes the disorder.

However, researchers; people with the syndrome your average age She says she’s 50, that it can occur in children and teenagers, that people under the age of 25 tend to have bipolar depression, and that women are more prone to the disorder.

It rises with the symptom of “nihilism”.

One of the main symptoms of walking corpse syndrome, also known as living dead syndrome, is nihilism. Nihilism is the belief that nothing has value or meaning. People with walking corpse syndrome dead or rotting they feel.

Sometimes, as if it never existed They can even feel. Some people feel this way about their entire body, while others may only feel it about certain organs, limbs, or even their soul.

Walking corpse syndrome is closely related to depression.

A 2011 review of available research on Cotard syndrome found that 89% of documented cases as a symptom states that it includes depression.

Other symptoms are as follows:

• Anxiety
• hallucinations
• Hypochondria
• Guilt
• Thoughts of self-harm or death

If we list some of the psychological disorders and diseases that can cause the emergence of walking corpse syndrome:

• Bipolar disorder
• postpartum depression
• catatonia
• depersonalization disorder
• dissociative disorder
• psychotic depression
• Schizophrenia

In addition, it may be associated with neurological conditions. We can list some of these neurological conditions as follows:

• brain infections
• Glioma
• dementia
• Epilepsy
• Migraine
• Multiple sclerosis (MS)
• Parkinson’s
• Paralysis
• traumatic brain injuries

According to a case reported by United Academics, a man named Graham, who has walking corpse syndrome, spent his time in cemeteries.

Graham was a man who spent most of his time in the cemetery. His visits lasted so long that the police took him there, among the tombstones would find it and bring it back home. He suffered from severe depression and had attempted suicide by bringing an electrical appliance to the bathroom. Graham believed he was brain dead and lived a kind of half-life. His trips to the cemetery were the closest connection he could make with death.

when you go to the doctor “I’ve come to prove that I’m dead.” He said he didn’t need to eat or sleep. They have the ability to see, hear, think, remember and communicate; your mind must be alive He also said he believed. He couldn’t explain how his mind could be alive if his brain was dead, but he was sure that was the case.

When they looked into Graham’s brain, they found something they couldn’t believe.

The researchers scanned Graham’s brain to see if anything unusual happened, and what they found was incredible. Most of the frontal cortex was closed. Graham, a rather low to metabolic rate he had. He was almost asleep.

Laureys, one of the doctors who looked after the man: “Graham’s brain function, during anesthesia or sleep looks like someone else. Seeing this pattern in an awake person is, as far as I know, unique.” he was saying.

We may learn more about walking corpse syndrome in the future.

The antidepressants Graham took may explain some of this metabolic shutdown, but Rest of them cannot be explained in this way. If the cases increase, we may know more about the issue, but that’s all the data we have for now.

Sources: Healthline, Smithsonianmag