How is walking corpse syndrome diagnosed?

The walking corpse syndrome is a mental illness that often manifests as mental disorders, emotional loss, depression, and no interest in things around them. They may appear sad when seeing happy things and happy when seeing sad things. In severe cases, they may deny themselves and the existence of the world around them. The disorder is caused by a disconnect between areas of the brain that recognize faces and those that feel emotions. So what are the characteristics of this disease and how to prevent it?

Differential Diagnosis

1. Depression patients suffer from low mood and slow thinking, and on this basis they develop a sense of unreality and nihilistic delusions. The patient complains that things around them seem "unreal", "unnatural", and "emotionless". In severe cases, they deny the existence of themselves and the world around them. Adding other symptoms of depression does not diagnose this disorder.

2. Menopausal depression may also cause nihilistic delusions, often believing that one's brain is empty, nerves are broken, and have a sense of unreality. This disease occurs during menopause, and its clinical symptoms are characterized by emotional depression, anxiety and tension, accompanied by symptoms such as autonomic nervous system and endocrine dysfunction.

3. Schizophrenia may also cause nihilistic delusions, often believing that one's organs are gone, that things around them no longer exist, and other symptoms of schizophrenia.

4. Paralytic dementia may also cause nihilistic delusions, but other symptoms are more prominent, such as mental retardation, emotional indifference, personality disorders, etc.

Feature information

1. The motor function is basically normal, and there is no problem with eating, drinking, defecating, urinating and walking;

2. No self-awareness, no idea of ​​who you are or what you want to do;

3. Lack of subjective initiative, passive waiting;

4. The body and mind begin to decay and degenerate;

5. Slow or no response;

6. His emotions are not obvious. He cries when he should laugh and laughs when he should be angry. He is different from ordinary people. Abnormal behavior;

7. Work and life are a mess, but they are content with the status quo and do not seek to make progress, or have no desire to make progress;

8. Doubt everything, but do not seek solutions, passively escape, and imagine that you are the only one around you;

9. The patient feels very painful when the disease occurs, but cannot express it to others.