💭 random stuff i think is interesting

– living dead girl? people suffering from Cotard’s syndrome believe they are dead, decomposing, or have lost internal organs, despite clear evidence to the contrary. It's often associated with severe depression with psychotic features.

– Neurology cosplaying as psychiatry: temporal lobe epilepsy can produce interictal psychosis that mimics schizophrenia, including auditory hallucinations and paranoid ideation. however, it is different because people who have it still have preserved insight and structured thought.

– i just don't feel like myself: depersonalization-derealization disorder is often linked to disrupted integration of bodily self-awareness. fMRI studies suggest hypoactivity in the insula and somatosensory cortex, and overmodulation by the prefrontal cortex, leading to the sensation of being detached from one’s own consciousness or surroundings.