Cotard's delusion is a rare mental disorder in which the sufferer is convinced that he or she is dead.
From
Mind Hacks:
It’s
worth noting that although Cotard’s delusion has come to represent ‘the
delusion that you’re dead’, Jules Cotard’s original description (from
1880) was not actually that – it was a delusion of negation where the
patient believed, as noted by Berrios and Luque, that she had “no brain,
nerves, chest, or entrails, and was just skin and bone”, that “neither
God or the devil existed”, and that she did not need food for “she was
eternal and would live forever”.
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