Cotard 's Syndrome : A Rare Delusionary Syndrome

Schizophrenia is a serious debilitating mental illness in which the victim is afflicted with bizarre delusions and prominent hallucinations. The delusions are profoundly invalid beliefs, and the hallucinations are equally invalid perceptions. There is also a disordering of the reasoning process, disordered emotional expression, and loss of motivation for work and social living. Typically, the illness starts in adolescence or early adulthood and, if untreated, usually worsens with age. (Lickey, Gordon, 1991)

There are lots of interesting stories regarding people who had Capgras delusion, but here are a few examples. A 74-year-old woman thought that her husband had been replaced by another unrelated man. She became agitated by this, and, "She refused to sleep with the impostor, locked her bedroom door at night, asked her son for a gun, and finally fought with the police when attempts were made to hospitalize her" ("Capgras Delusion"). This particular woman resorted to violence when she was unable to find out the truth about her husband, even though it was standing right in front of her. Sometimes the woman thought that her husband's replacement was her long, deceased father ("Capgras Delusion"). This is an interesting interpretation she experienced because it is

Cotard's Syndrome is an uncommon emotional instability which exists in patients with depression, schizophrenia, and psychotic disorder created by a general restorative condition, and it is frequently connected with dementia. Patients denies their existence, the presence of a specific body part, or the presence of a bit of their body. Delusion and hallucinations are the primary manifestations, yet others, for example, depression and anxiety happen by and large.

According to Freeman (2008, pp. 24–26) delusions are multidimensional. In addition to mentioning the main characteristics of delusions such as being unfounded, firmly held, and resistant to change but also preoccupying and distressing, he also mention that they interfere with the social dimension of a person’s life. The author described the types of delusions as Functional versus organic,( ‘organic’ if it was the result of brain damage and ‘functional’ if it had no known organic cause and was explained primarily via psychodynamic or motivational factors.) ,Monothematic versus polythematic, (polythematic in that they extend to more than one theme, where the themes can be interrelated and ,monothematic where apart from the content of delusion itself, no other (unrelated) bizarre belief needs to be reported by the same person.), Circumscribed versus elaborated, (A delusion is circumscribed if it does not lead to the formation of other

symptoms of delusions (Frank, 1998). According to Foster and Levinson (1998) this client has a

Additional, inferences about the disorder are provided by Whitcomb and Merrell (2013). The authors characterize the symptoms of schizophrenia as delusions that are “typically bizarre and implausible” and pronounced hallucinations such as hearing voices for long periods of time (p. 363). Additional, impairments noted by the authors include “severe disturbances in perception, thought and affect, a severe decline in personal and social functioning, poor personal hygiene, inability to function effectively at school or work, and a severe impairment in social relationships” (Whitcomb and Merrell, 2013 p.363).

The patient is a 36 year old female who presented to the ED with acute psychotic features. The patient reports experiencing God giving her a massage and seeing butterflies. The patient reports hearing God giving her commands. The patient denies suicidal ideations and homicidal ideations. The patient reports depressive symptoms as: guilt, fatigue, tearfulness, irritability, and inflated self-esteem.

symptoms of this disorder include, distinctive symptoms and which can off to be masked as multiple other psychiatric disorders. this is due dually to the brain end it create

Mental health has been studied for centuries now. There have been fast differences major evolutional discoveries and changes since mental health has been researched and studied. Many theorists have been pioneers in their respective studies and laid the blueprint for what it is today. One of the interesting diagnosis’s during the early development is how Schizophrenia is a diagnosis that has been misunderstood over the centuries. The criteria that would determine one such a label, has shifted drastically. Although it has shifted and the information we have today is much more polished due to the amount of research and studies that have taken place, it’s important to learn and know the history behind how schizophrenia came to be and how it was coined to become such a noticeable and intricate part of diagnosis’s in psychology. Leading the way in the foundation and discovery of

Doctor Norma also mentioned that his own mother had died from the same disordered and he could not have saved her from the same that he was, having lots of “chronic sleep problems and fluctuation” in thinking in which mental acuity comes and goes; and vision hallucination, often of animals, children or miniature people. I could not imaging a human being having to face with such difficulty for him to have false sensory perception and its also difficulty for his family to watch him endure such agony and pain. That is pure suffering, its like having a battle with yourself, who is there to keep you safe from your own

Fiction is a gateway from reality via the likely impossible and supernatural. Countless of media productions explicitly or implicitly allude to death and/or ceasing to exist. Thanatological entertainment is in high demand, resulting in an abundance of fiction in the market. Romanticizing death is ironic, as death is a morbid, unpredictable, and ambiguous concept that should not be encountered nor discussed daily. Yet, we are bombarded with the concept through commercials about medication, TV series about crime solving and lyrics that question our very existence. And still we take death as a figurative idea rather than a literal one. As stated by Elisabeth Kubler Ross, a Swedish American psychiatrist, ‘‘by rendering death into humor and entertainment, we effectively neutralize it’’,

The world of psychology remains an ever-growing force, affecting humankind constantly with the capability to shape or change a person's overall cognition and behavior.  Frequently, psychological disorders or conditions arise due to the normal anatomy or physiology of the brain being altered, manipulating or even magnifying the average person's state of mind.  Upon delving into the expansive realm of psychological conditions, I had discovered a rather unique condition that evidently leads its victims to believe they are no longer among the living: Cotard's Syndrome (AKA Walking Corpse Syndrome).  In short, it goes without saying that the grotesque delusions of this syndrome are undeniably captivating, which drew me in with

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, nearly 20% of the US population may suffer from a diagnosable mental illness in any given six month period (1991). Obviously the issue of mental health warrants close scrutiny, as such illness can translate into lost work days and lost dollars. From a health care perspective, many of those suffering can be relieved of their symptoms and return to normal life, so to speak. Schizophrenia,

Capgras Syndrome, also known as Capgras Delusion, is a neuropsychological condition or illogical belief in which an individual holds a belief that a familiar person or place such as a friend, spouse, family member or even pets, have been replaced with an exact duplicate. In 1923, Joseph Capgras, a French psychiatrist, had discovered this delusion and have seen that this disorder is associated with people who have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and often people who have a brain injury or disease (Bier).

“Schizophrenia, a complex and often disabling mental illness, is among the most serious of brain diseases” (Veague 1).To some