Cota r d's Syn dro me
When we don‘ t see the
walking dead just in mov-
ies.
Even though the Hallow-
een is already over, I can‘t
help but get back to it. I
don‘t know about you but
when somebody says Hal-
loween I immediately im-
agine monsters, costumes,
witches and definitely
some zombies. But what
zombies actually are?
Zombie can be explained
as undead-corpse which
ascends from grave, try-
ing to fulfill their desire
for blood by eating fresh
human meat or brain. The
concept of zombie has also
its origins in voodoo cult
in which it marks a com-
pletely enslaved person.
In most cases, those peo-
ple execute commands un-
knowingly under the influ-
ence of some drugs. If the
idea of the walking dead
scares you then you can be
glad you don‘t suffer from
Cotards syndrome, also
known as the syndrome of
the walking dead.
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Patients suffering from
this illness think that they
are dead, non-existing.
They can think that some
of their organs are missing
and it’s usually one organ
in particular - the brain.
They don’t react to any
impulses and they can’t
even speak clearly. This
mental illness is accompa-
nied by feelings of guilt,
negativism, and unrest-
fulness. In very rare cases
the Cotard‘s syndrome can
cause hallucinations about
immortality. Because the
dead can’t die second time
the patients think they are
immune to being hit by a
car, jumping from a high
building or any danger.
These illusions lead to un-
predictable behaviour and
the infected person loses
any survival instinct that
every healthy person has.
These but also other men-
tal syndromes are just the
tip of the iceberg. Thera-
pists know a lot more of
them and some are just
known inside the walls of
psychiatric institutes. A lot
of times we can’t under-
stand the infected person