#walking corpse syndrome

[clusterrune]

i wanted to share what cotard's syndrome is like for me, how it feels and effects me day-to-day, so i thought adding such in it's own chapter would be the best way to do so.

for me, i believe i am either already dead or dying, depending on the day. some days i believe im dead, that mu body is a corpse and my stiff joints and back, the arthritis in my joints and limbs, etc, are the result of rigor mortis setting in, my limbs starting to part from my lifeless body. i often feel as though none of my organs work, the magority of them already decayed and gone or rotting. 

other days i feel like im slowly dying, dificulty walking or functons and mobility in general is due to my body shuttng down for the last moments of breath. my pulse speading up or slowing down could either assure me im still alive a while longer or further the idea im not real or about to die. sometimes feeling my pulse could trigger thoughts like "living things have a pulse, but m not living and i have one, so im clearly not a normal human".

i'll believe my body is only still managing to function or move or do anything at all because dead or not...

continue reading this chapter in my new book, understanding cotard's.

[redacted-coiner]

Cotard Syndrome Awareness Flag

[PT: Cotard Syndrome Awareness Flag]

Cotard Syndrome also referred too as Walking Corpse Syndrome that can be any one of a series of delusions that range from a belief that one has lost organs, blood, or body parts to insisting that one has lost one's soul or is dead.

The term isn’t the most well know bit I thought making some sort of flag could do it!

For more information on this term, look here(link) and here(link)! Also another flag can be seen here(link)!

[ID: none yet]

[Tag] @mad-pride

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[laughing-moonlight]

Cotard's syndrome (also known as Cotard's Delusion or Walking Corpse Syndrome) is a rare mental disorder in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that: they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying, have lost their blood or internal organs, and even insisting that one has lost one's soul or is dead.

Statistical analysis of a hundred-patient cohort indicated that denial of self-existence is present in 45% of the cases of Cotard's syndrome; the other 55% of the patients presented with delusions of immortality.

[phantom-heartbeat]

My heartbeat is a phantom

Whatever brain activity is left over and still going is creating ghosts of the symptoms of a living body

There is no circulation in my blood just cold still liquid lacking iron

There is no real heartbeat just a phantom in my chest creating what feels like a pulse

There is no life in this walking corpse, just a vessel barely holding itself together in pins and needles with supplements and braces

There is no strength to my muscles

No warmth to my touch

I'm not a person like the rest

Instead before you is a zombie, a vampire, a ghost

A dead undead thing living with a lack of life

My heartbeat is a phantom

[deadedaccount]

Two self-portraits I made yesterday, plus the writing on the first one.

[m43n4d-t41k5]

૮ 𖦹 ﻌ 𖦹ა < iive been feeliing so diissconnected from my body iitss sscary..

૮ 𖦹 ﻌ 𖦹ა < there are partss of my body that eiither feel liike theyre rottiing or like theyve been replaced.. iit diissgusstss me lookiing at my arm iit doessnt feel liike miine and ii can feel my eye decayiing iin iitss ssocket.. ii dont know what to do..

૮ 𖦹 ﻌ 𖦹ა < ii alsso am jusst sstruggliing to see my sself ass aliive.. recently ii attempted and that doess not help.. iive been feeling liike ii diied then and have been walkiing around ass a zombiie?? iit ssoundss chiildiissh and iit iiss embarrassssiing to talk about but iitss really effecting me..

[knellofghouls]

just a reminder that this is my man. Yes he’s insane, a vampyre and a murderer but he’s my husband. 😍🫶

[creatively-ill]

I know it’s put me through hardships but if it wasn’t for the Internet

I would’ve stabbed my eyes out by now

[randomwikiarticles]

Cotard's syndrome, also known as Cotard's delusion or walking corpse syndrome, is a rare mental disorder in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs.[1] Statistical analysis of a hundred-patient cohort indicated that denial of self-existence is present in 45% of the cases of Cotard's syndrome; the other 55% of the patients presented with delusions of immortality.[2]

In 1880, the neurologist and psychiatrist Jules Cotard described the condition as le délire des négations ("the delirium of negation"), a psychiatric syndrome of varied severity. A mild case is characterized by despair and self-loathing, while a severe case is characterized by intense delusions of negation, and chronic psychiatric depression.[3][4]

The case of "Mademoiselle X" describes a woman who denied the existence of parts of her body (somatoparaphrenia) and of her need to eat. She claimed that she was condemned to eternal damnation, and therefore could not die a natural death. In the course of experiencing "the delirium of negation", Mademoiselle X died of starvation.[5]

[alexawayneocd]

Vampire Or The Walking Dead

Vampire or the Walking Dead is a good question for a debate surrounding fictional fandoms but what about mental disorders thinking you're dead

We don’t understand or have discovered many things about the human brain yet. We don’t know how powerful it can be. One delusion remains a mystery, Cotard’s Syndrome. Ask A Mortician She’ll Answer Tonight, when going to bed, my husband and I turned on the television and YouTube. We watched our regular channels, including Ask A Mortician, hosted by Caitlin Doughty. She talked about a real and…

[dozingdose]

[clusterrune]

Cotard's Syndrome

[cotards syndrome]

masterpost of resources for walking corpse syndrome/delusion.

what is it?(link) / is it episodic?(link) / beliefs and causes(link)

possible influences(link) / what its like an how its treated(link) / in the context of schizophrenia(link)

stats(link) / wiki page(link) / wiki overview(link) / special report(link) / case report(link) / 100 case analysis(link)

making sense of cotards(link) / cafepime-induced(link)

an uncommon presentation(link) / a sense of self(link) / are zombies real?(link)

misuse of delusional(link) / frustrating term use(link)

doctors arent helping1(link) / doctors arent helping2(link) / contradictions1(link) / contradictions2(link)

my heartbeat is a phantom(link)

self-awareness and i(link)

carrd1(link)

our book, understanding cotard's(link), contains plain text of these link's content and more, / and we run clusterrune in instagram where we try to write our posts in plain text in the captions.

please let me know if any links fail to work or are douplicates.

i also accept people suggesting things to add

apologies for the lack of ids.

check back again later when we have more!

[redacted-coiner]

Munchausen, Cotard Syndrome, BIID

All flags are Amnesia flags!(link)

Anxiety, General ED Recovery(link), Depression

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[archival-arrival]

Carcubus

[carcubus]

a flag for otherkin, alterhuman, nonhuman folk who identify as -cubi and are dead, believe themselves to be a corpse or missing vital organs or functions of some kind like blood, be it alters from a system, species dysphora, gender related or other. this flag is for (un)dead -cubi of all kinds.

carcubi/carcubus comes from:

car = carcas, a synonym for corpse, cadaver or dead body.

-cubi/cubus, suffux.

this term/flag is exclusive to those with cotard's syndrome(link)

radqueers and transid/transx people stay off this post, none of these are for you.

tagging @acetrappolaswife and @docsfallfromgrace !

ids in alt text

[phantom-heartbeat]

Every little ache in my joints, my limbs being heavy, the exhaustion setting in hard

Feels like I'm being torn apart by forcing myself to move against rigor mortis

I should not be animate and yet I am

The vamp is tired of being alive when it should be ash

[m43n4d-t41k5]

૮ 𖦹 ﻌ 𖦹ა < walkiing corpsse ssyndrome but the part of my body that feelss liike iitss rottiing iiss the eye that hass possssiible cancer behiind iit

૮ 𖦹 ﻌ 𖦹ა < update iive been thiinkiing too much and now the left-arm-dissgusst iiss back