Posted by smokeymadison on January 13, 2005, at 13:39:13
i thought that you might find this interesting. while i was in this last hospital, my roommate developed the Cotard delusion.
when i first got to the hospital, the woman was very confused and had trouble membering things that happened hours earlier. then one morning she said that she was saved by God and no longer needed her meds. Then a day later she no longer needed to eat, because God had told her that she didn't need to. She was completely obsessed with having been saved by God,
I kept talking with her all through this and i and the others tried to get her to eat at least.
then the day before i left she i woke up and she was sitting in the chair by the end of her bed staring at the floor. She told me that she was dead.
the nurses got involved in trying to get her to drink something and she threw it at them. she kept screaming that she was dead. they locked her in the seclusion room and i didn't see her again.
any thoughts? this didn't seem to be an utterance of metaphorical weight or anything. she truely believed that she was dead. i know that they had her on Xanax and Risperdal, but of course i don't know the doses.
by the way, i wish i were back in the hospital. i am waiting until my car gets fixed to do intensive outpatient therapy. in the meantime, i miss the structure of the environment. here at home i just feel out of sorts. but of course, the pdoc know i was becoming reliant on the hospital--that is way i was only there for 3 days.
SM
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