People suffering from the syndrome of living corpses, believe that they are dead

The syndrome is caused by the desire for a stable and continuing suicidal depression. People with this diagnosis have complained that they have lost everything, including property and a part or the whole body. They believe that there is only dead and their bodies. Misconception progressed to such an extent that the patient can say, if feels like his body is decomposed. Allegedly, he smells his own rotting flesh and feel worms eat it from the inside.

One of the most famous cases of the syndrome of the living corpse, used in various medical literature describing the disease, is still considered a kind of citizen observation of Scotland, it is believed that he died of AIDS and now lives in the hereafter, which he called hell. In fact, no AIDS in this strange Scot was not in sight.

Source: www.scienceblog.ru

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