Today’s Delusional Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Schizophrenics can experience severe delusions like “delusional bicephaly” – what you might call Siamese twin disorder, the feeling of having an extra head. In 1978 an Australian schizophrenic killed his wife with his erratic driving. Two years later he suddenly found her gynecologist’s noggin perched on his shoulder, whispering to him. Lord knows why, but the man took this as a sign that the gyno had diddled his wife, so he tried to guillotine the doctor’s head with an axe. When this failed he started shooting at the head with a gun and shot his own brain by accident. (The subsequent brain damage from the bullet did “cure” him of this delusion.)
Culled from: The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
Morbid Trinket Du Jour!
How delightful is this new air freshener from Archie McPhee?
