The Cotard delusion (also Cotard's syndrome and walking corpse syndrome) is a rare mental illness in which an afflicted person holds the delusion that they are dead, either figuratively or literally; yet said delusion of negation is not a symptom essential to the syndrome. Follow and tag your friends ;) #medical #medicine @medicalcortex #nurse #brain #cotard #syndrome #psychiatry #psycho #dead #psychology #premed #medlife #premedlife #psychosis #mentalillness #usmle