[Newsbot]

Title: Teen with Cotard's Syndrome spent three years thinking she was DEAD
Category: Health
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2015-01-16 00:13:44

[DrCaleb]

Remember this case, when you hear about people found not guilty of a crime for being mentally unfit.

[andyt]

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[DrCaleb]

andyt andyt:

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She didn't know she was still alive because that part of her brain checked out and left the baggage. The human brain is pretty complicated, and we don't know entirely how it works.

So when someone's brain starts thinking a person's internal monologue is someone else and is telling them the person walking behind them on the street is trying to kill them, and it's OK to protect yourself from the person trying to kill you - then you are mentally unfit to tell right from wrong. When your internal voice tells you to fondle the girl on the bus, but you think it's actually the girl telling you that, how can you be held responsible for a mental lapse? You simply didn't know it was wrong.

Not guilty by reason of insanity or mental impairment is equally as valid as walking around thinking you are actually dead, or that the parking meter is telling you that you are fat, or . . .

[BartSimpson]

Never heard of this one before. Interesting.

[andyt]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

andyt andyt:

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She didn't know she was still alive because that part of her brain checked out and left the baggage. The human brain is pretty complicated, and we don't know entirely how it works.

So when someone's brain starts thinking a person's internal monologue is someone else and is telling them the person walking behind them on the street is trying to kill them, and it's OK to protect yourself from the person trying to kill you - then you are mentally unfit to tell right from wrong. When your internal voice tells you to fondle the girl on the bus, but you think it's actually the girl telling you that, how can you be held responsible for a mental lapse? You simply didn't know it was wrong.

Not guilty by reason of insanity or mental impairment is equally as valid as walking around thinking you are actually dead, or that the parking meter is telling you that you are fat, or . . .

Oh. Of course. Didn't know that had to be said. All I argue with is the idea that we know how to "cure" this complicated organ, so we release people who may be dangerous again without sufficient safeguards.