A new book detailing bizarre symptoms of extremely rare diseases.
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Dr. Jules Cotard is credited with first describing, in the late 1800s, the "walking corpse" psychiatric disorder. In this, deluded patients think they have lost body parts or their souls, and often believe they have died. Also called Cotard's syndrome, the mental disease has been found in people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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Another bizarre mental disorder Butcher describes is the Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome, in which a patient's sense of time, space and body image are distorted. People may appear tiny or patients may feel that part of their body shape or size has been altered.
Another bizarre mental disorder Butcher describes is the Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome, in which a patient's sense of time, space and body image are distorted. People may appear tiny or patients may feel that part of their body shape or size has been altered.
Sounds like most teenage girls and young women......
Sounds like most teenage girls and young women......
WAAAAK! She beat me to it, heh...
I've known women who were insanely gorgeous!! who nevertheless are absolutely convinced of some imaginary physical defect...one of them couldn't find much to complain about (Madison Ave.'s dream come true) so she decided she had...
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