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Dead Alive: Rare Mental Illness Called Walking Corpse Syndrome Makes People Think They're Dead
medicaldaily.com ^ | Jaleesa Baulkman

Posted on 05/31/2016 8:21:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin

People with the condition are known to have any of a number of delusions that range from believing they have no organs, blood or body parts to insisting they are actually dead even though they are very much still breathing. In even more rare cases of what is also known as walking corpse syndrome, people with the condition consider themselves immortal. Although walking corpse syndrome is considered extremely rare, its exact prevalence is unknown. One Hong Kong study involving 349 psychogeriatric patients suggests the condition afflicts about 0.57 percent of the population. Another study conducted in Mexico in 2010, which involved 1,321 patients, found that 0.62 percent of the population had the rare mental health disorder. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this syndrome is often found in people with mood or psychotic disorders and medical conditions.

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The blooming stage is known as the time patients develop hallmark symptoms of walking corpse syndrome, such as denying they have certain body parts or that they even exist. These symptoms worsen in severity during the chronic stage and interfere with patients’ ability to go about their daily lives. They are known to begin to neglect their own hygiene and self-care, to harm themselves, and fail to recognize their own faces as well as those of others.

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Therapy along with antidepressants and antipsychotics have been shown to help control the symptoms as well as electroconvulsive treatment. In fact, a 2008 case report claims most cases of walking corpse syndrome are more responsive to electroconvulsive treatment than to pharmacological treatment. However, more research needs to be done on this condition because scientists are still in the dark about the cause of this disease and how to treat it.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: disorders; mentalillness; psychiatry
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To: BenLurkin

I ran out of sick days, so I called into work dead. Does that count?


41 posted on 05/31/2016 8:56:35 AM PDT by dware (I don't care what bathroom they use, as long as it's in the nuthouse, where they belong)
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To: BenLurkin

Oh crap! Another protected class.


42 posted on 05/31/2016 8:56:44 AM PDT by Chaguito
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To: SkyDancer

Be Nice!!!!

I like living in Kansas!

;-P


43 posted on 05/31/2016 9:01:15 AM PDT by MortMan (Let's call the push for amnesty what it is: Pedrophilia.)
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To: BenLurkin
insisting they are actually dead

The dead can not insist about anything. Next they'll insist "Dead" signs be added to restrooms. Though why would the dead need to pee?

44 posted on 05/31/2016 9:04:13 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: BenLurkin

Transdead rights! Taxpayers should provide cold storage drawers for them to lie in.


45 posted on 05/31/2016 9:04:23 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

to vote Democrat


46 posted on 05/31/2016 9:09:17 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
The dead have rights too, you know. They’ve urned it!

I saw what you did there.

I dunno - these days I just say let 'em use the ladies' crapper and call it good...

47 posted on 05/31/2016 9:10:01 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: BenLurkin

I had that for a while. I couldn’t stop coffin!


48 posted on 05/31/2016 9:12:39 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

I snapped out of it when the bill from the funeral home came.


49 posted on 05/31/2016 9:14:10 AM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
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To: exit82

“Rumors of my fake death have been greatly exaggerated.”


50 posted on 05/31/2016 9:16:57 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: BenLurkin
..antidepressants and antipsychotics have been shown to help control the symptoms ..

More likely, they're the cause.

51 posted on 05/31/2016 9:19:18 AM PDT by uncitizen (Gloves OFF! Go Trump!)
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To: uncitizen

Acid can do that. I remember thinking, “I just killed myself. And so, while I’m waiting to die...”

It’s a peculiar feeling.


52 posted on 05/31/2016 9:24:10 AM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: BenLurkin

Reminds me of a girlfriend I once had. It didn’t last long.


53 posted on 05/31/2016 9:49:27 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: bgill
Though why would the dead need to pee?

Perhaps they are in transition and have not had the operation yet?

54 posted on 05/31/2016 10:07:46 AM PDT by TheDon (BO must be replaced immediately for the good of the nation and the world!)
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To: BenLurkin
I believe ALL LIBs suffer from this malady.
55 posted on 05/31/2016 10:39:08 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: BenLurkin

And here I thought that the zombie stuff was just Hollywood.


56 posted on 05/31/2016 10:40:31 AM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama. When being bad is not enough and only evil will do)
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To: MortMan

There are so many jokes about Kansas but then there are about other states as well. I’ve driven through Kansas several times. Took me several weeks to do it. LOL


57 posted on 05/31/2016 10:56:13 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Larry Lucido

Excellent


58 posted on 05/31/2016 11:30:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SkyDancer

You spent a week in Kansas one day? ;-P


59 posted on 05/31/2016 11:58:11 AM PDT by MortMan (Let's call the push for amnesty what it is: Pedrophilia.)
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To: MortMan

I visited a BF who was attending college in Manhattan. We toured this military base where Custer and Patton had base housing and some other interesting stuff. Then back on the interstate heading west - now I know why the speed limit is 80mph.


60 posted on 05/31/2016 12:25:30 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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