Citation

Örüm MH, Kalenderoğlu A. Psychiatry Clin. Psychopharm. 2018; 28(1): 110-112.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, AVES)

DOI

10.1080/24750573.2017.1371661

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Cotard is a syndrome that is characterized by ideas of damnation or rejection, anxious melancholia, insensitivity to pain, and nihilistic delusions concerning one's own body or existence. It is most often encountered in middle age or older women who are severely depressed. Capgras syndrome is a rare psychiatric disorder with colourful symptoms. The patient believes that the identities of close relatives or friends are not real but are replaced by others. Co-existences of psychiatric and organic diseases with Cotard's syndrome and Capgras syndrome are reported in different studies. There is still requirement of more research to establish a position in diagnostic classification systems for these syndromes which are thought to have a multifactorial etiology. In this report, we described a patient with bipolar disorder type-2 who displayed comorbid Cotard and Capgras delusions which were most evident at the onset of menstrual periods. © 2017 The Author(s).

Language: en

Keywords

attitude; adult; human; female; case report; bipolar disorder; depression; schizophrenia; anxiety; suicide attempt; comorbidity; clozapine; mood disorder; mental disease; clinical article; hallucination; quetiapine; melancholia; haloperidol; delusion; follow up; olanzapine; risperidone; valproic acid; cotard syndrome; Article; drug dose increase; Menstrual cycle; Capgras syndrome; analgesia (sensory dysfunction); Cotard syndrome; Bipolar disorder type-2