Kaydra gets into the perplexing and rare Cotard’s Syndrome, discovered in the late 1800’s. Only about 200 cases around the world have been recorded to date. Persons with Cotard’s have delusions of negation that can range from believing they lost their organs, blood, or body parts, to being certain they have lost their soul, are dead, or do not exist at all.

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SOURCES:

Psychiatry (Edgmont). 2008 Jun; 5(6): 28–29. Published online 2008 Jun. “A Case Report of Cotard’s Syndrome,” by Anne Ruminjo, MD and Boris Mekinulov, MD.

WebMD

“Sudden Onset of Cotard’s Syndrome as a Clinical Sign of Brain Tumor,” by Luis Moreira Goncalves and Alberto Tosoni (2016): https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-60830000000080

https://psychologydictionary.org/negation/

An article from “Life in the Fastlane” by Anthony Vu and Mike Cadogan: https://litfl.com/jules-cotard/

An article from Medium.com by Dale M. Brumfield:https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/mademoiselle-x-living-while-dead-8fe06146b711

AAPC.com: https://www.aapc.com/codes/icd-10-codes/F22

Wikipedia

A 2017 article by Aradhana Sahoo, BS, and Keith A. Josephs, MD: "A Neuropsychiatric Analysis of the Cotard Delusion." https://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.17010018

Psychcentral.com: https://psychcentral.com/health/what-is-a-mental-health-crisis#how-to-get-help

A 2013 article by Helen Thomson: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23583-mindscapes-first-interview-with-a-dead-man/