I hate when people diagnose themselves, but I read some old forum posts that I wrote during my first psychosis and I think I might have suffered from Cotard’s Delusion.
I mean, can one recover from that?
It seems I was convinced I was dead for about two years. I remember trying to commit suicide a lot, but the whole conviction about being dead seems to have slipped my mind.
I have a lot, no, A LOT of problems with my memory, so I kind of get how I had forgotten.
I kind of think it can’t be Cotard’s Delusion, but the symptoms sound similar. One thing that makes me doubt this, is that I had an alternative idea about me being in a coma. I did believe I wasn’t real, but I also believed everyone else was not real as well.
Anyone know WTH I’m talking about?
I have self diagnosed delusions sometimes. I have never of cotards delusion. But I suppose it’s possible best thing you can do is explain your thoughts to a good doctor. Who you know and trust and get his opinion
I would, but my clinic only has a relay doctor at the moment and she wont even call me back to get me on some meds again. I have been expressing how urgent the matter is for 3 weeks (according to forum posts. I have no perception of time in my current condition). After meeting with her last (and only) time, I felt like she had just run me over with her car. She couldn’t care less about what I had to say.
There was a significant period of time in 1985 when I believed I was dead and living in the afterlife. It scared the sh*t out of me for along time because I didn’t want to be dead anymore. It took a long time for me to realize that I never really died. Part of the problem was that a real priest had given me last rights in the hospital on request because I told him I thought I was going to die. After he was done, I thought it meant I was dead. The delusion you call Cotard’s delusion is a term I’ve never heard before. But it seems I’ve experienced it at least once.
I had never heard of it until I saw those illustrations on Bored Panda.
I looked it up and realized that I have had that delusion in the past.
The main reason why I doubt that I suffered from this, is because seems to be very uncommon, even in sz.
I should see if I can dig up some more info on this. Not that it matters now, I’m just curious.
I had the delusion I was dead for a while.
But I think in order to classify for Cotard’s delusion you need to really believe you’re decomposing. I might be wrong though?
I didn’t find anything about that while reading about it, but it might be true.