Interesting condition that I had never heard of. Thanks. Since it was first documented in 1880, more than a hundred cases of Cotard’s have been reported all over the world. There’s the 59-year-old woman who was hospitalized in the United Kingdom after reporting feeling like she was “a rotting corpse.” She told doctors the blood circulation to her legs was damaged, and her legs were falling off. Then there’s the 62-year-old Spanish man who was convinced not only that he was dead, but also that his penis was disappearing. A middle-aged Japanese woman complained that her mind was “completely blank with no thoughts,” that there seemed to be no brain in her head, and she could not talk because she’d “lost all her words.”
-"More than 100 cases since 1880." Is that figure supposed to impress? I have to say that this sounds like assigning importance to crazy. If since 1880 there were "more than 100" cases of people thinking that they were inch worms, would we be reading about it right now and postulating that it was some sort of link to our primordial selves?