In one isolated case, the Capgras delusion was temporarily induced in a healthy subject by administration of ketamine.
— wikipedia article on capgras delusion
Fifteen minutes after the completion of the maintenance dose when her mental status returned to baseline, she reported: “every time you left the room, I thought another person dressed in your clothes was coming back into the room…it wasn't scary, just another person dressed in your clothes, doing your job but the person was a little older in age and weighed more.” She also reported: “I'd look into the mirror and think that's not me, I didn't think the image staring back at me was myself…even the words I was saying were not words I would normally say…it just wasn't me… it wasn't my speech, my voice, my reactions…I felt like a different person because I would not have reacted in the way I usually would have.”
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All her symptoms resolved by the end of the test day. She did not experience delusional misidentification on the day that she received ketamine and lorazepam.
— the case report
come on man, what a scam! tfw the dissociatives give you dissociative hallucinations!
Théo van Rysselberghe - The Red Sail, Cap Bénat (1910)
lately i've been getting mild random spurious abdominal pain and thinking "aw man my appendix exploded, i'm gonna have to wait twelve hours in a dingy er chair for a surgeon on some wimpy nsaid and my throat's gonna hurt from the intubation and my tummy's gonna hurt from the incision and the anesthesia's gonna kill me and replace me with an identical guy" and then i remember the appendix is on the other side
i've never been victim of a crime or been afraid of crime or seen or heard or even imagined or conceptualised a crime. in my mind "crime" has a hazy and undefined referent and i'm not sure i could tell a crime apart from a noncrime much better than chance. as far as i'm concerned the "crime rate" is zero and politicians talking about the "crime rate" could be discussing real estate prices on mars. one time my house was burglarised tho
Helena Berry
