Rare and odd medical syndromes are hard for many people to understand and are often hard to treat, according to medical experts.
Read on to learn more about three unusual and baffling disorders.
In these three conditions, sufferers believe they are dead, suffer severe size distortions in their visual perception, or speak in a foreign language and don’t understand why or how it’s happened.
Cotard’s Syndrome or Walking Dead Syndrome
Cotard’s Syndrome, sometimes called Walking Dead Syndrome, is a relatively rare neuropsychiatric condition that was first described by Dr. Jules Cotard, a Parisian neurologist, in 1882.
That’s according to Dr. Anne Ruminjo, a second-year psychiatry resident at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, as well as Dr. Boris Mekinulov, a unit attending physician at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn.
They describe the condition in a case report published in the medical journal Psychiatry MMC.
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