My mother is schizophrenic and exhibits symptoms of the Cotard delusion (claims of being dead, of having no heart, rotting inside, of having to die). The sympt

My mother is schizophrenic and exhibits symptoms of the Cotard delusion (claims of being dead, of having no heart, rotting inside, of having to die). The symptoms aren't as bad as some of the described patients and improve when she's on antipsychotics. Incidentally, she also had symptoms of the Capgras delusion, believing that my father, me, and other. family members have been replaced by strangers and that we're not the real family members.