I think i'm smelling my body rotting internally

I've posted something like this before months ago, and I'm still not past it. I'm convinced I'm smelling rot in my brain. I have a constant smell of carcass that only I can smell that I can't get rid of and it's driving me insane. I'm losing sleep, I don't eat, I bathe over and over and scrub and I just can't get the smell to go away. My body is rotting away.

I'm hallucinating and wake up confused. I feel dissociated with myself and am withdrawing from my friends. I'm on a full ride football scholarship at my university but I can't focus on practicing, and when I lift weights I swear the smell gets worse. When I strain I can feel the rot in my head sponging like moss, when I get slammed or tackled I feel the rot pulsing. I've been to the university doctors once and they just wanted to give me a psych evaluation and suspended me from playing for a week.

It's driving me insane and I don't know what to do. I'm losing weight and my skin looks grey and I see massive bruises all over my body but they disappear the next day. This has all been going on over six months now. I'm rotting from the inside out and my organs are decaying, I see myself as a walking carcass and nobody will believe me. I think I'm dead, but everybody is telling me I'm fine, only I can smell my rot, and only I can see how bad I'm wasting away. I haven't left my dorm for three days.

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  • Throwaway9876

    what you describe sounds like Cotard Delusion.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard_delusion

    It can be due to schizophrenia, but also to physical conditions and chemical imbalance.

    But it can almost certainly be treated. Get medical help right away.

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  • ojimpu

    Also, tell your coach. He might help you and understand what you've been going through

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  • ojimpu

    First, get a good bathe. Then clean your nose lightly with tissue or nosebud then eat some fruits anything healthy. Go to the clinic and tell them that you smell rot and in my opinion seems like there's a wound in your nose and you're smelling your own blood.

    Second, go out. Staying in your dorm will make you feel worse. Also I want you to tell me how you first realized about it/ when it first happen/last activities.

    Third, visit a doctor. Just do it. If not, research on it and how it might have happened.

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  • TexasToast09

    "I've been to the university doctors once and they just wanted to give me a psych evaluation and suspended me from playing for a week."

    Have you considered letting them give you a psych evaluation? It sounds like you have a problem and letting them help you figure out what it is would go a long way to fixing it.

    "I'm hallucinating and wake up confused. I feel dissociated with myself"

    Exactly why you should get help.

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    • Crazy people get psych evaluations. I'm not crazy, I'm rotting.

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      • TexasToast09

        When people are together in a group and someone makes a comment like "I like that color of blue on that car," if others in the group see a blue car too, that's what it is. It's many of those little subtle checks that happen without you really thinking about it that makes it where you know what you are seeing is reality. That's why isolation is so bad for people mentally. They are missing those seemingly invisible reality checks.

        When you talk about how only you can smell it, or how your organs are decaying but no one else agrees with you, I think it's normal that you feel suspicious of them. It's like if I was in that group of people and I made the comment about the car and someone else said that I was wrong and that it is red, I would think they are wrong. Maybe they are seeing it wrong because of the lighting or they are color blind or something. It would take a lot of people also saying it's red to convince me that I am the one seeing it wrong, and even then I would probably think they are playing a joke on me.

        From my perspective, I don't think you are rotting, just as I see the car is blue. I think if you were rotting, others would know and you would probably know that they know because they would probably say something, or at least have a look on their face you could read. Do I think you are crazy? The answer is that I don't know. It really doesn't matter anyway. My point is if you aren't crazy, getting a psych exam will confirm that you aren't. If you really think you aren't crazy, then you shouldn't fear getting a psych exam, but you need to get one to find out if the car is red or blue. If it turns out you're not crazy, then it's one more thing you can rule out to narrow down the possibilities so you can find out what will help you with you're problem. If it turns out that it's something mentally wrong with you, I would hope that you realize that it's a good thing, because you have found the problem and that there is help you can get for it, and that there is nothing wrong with it. You didn't do it to yourself, it's just an chemical imbalance in your brain.

        I would also like to say that if this has really been a problem for six months, the rotting brain and organs, you would be dead long before now. I replied to your post you made a few months ago, so I know this has been going on for some time. Another symptom of what you are describing is that you feel like you already are dead. You may not have that symptom or at least not yet, but it is something you need to be aware that it is not normal. If you either think you are dead or feel like you are dead, both are different problems, but both are definitely reasons to get help.

        I'm not really sure I can convince you that something is wrong, at least not what you think is wrong. Even more than that, if I was given medication to help me and I didn't think something was wrong with me, it would feel like it was poison to me, and that it would harm me if I took it. I'm not trying to convince you that you should take medication. Again, I'm saying you need to find out if the car is red or blue and the way to do that is to get a psych exam, and probably some help passed that. If you want to fix the problem you are having, you need to be willing to say that you don't know what the problem is yourself. I don't know what the problem is; I'm not a doctor. I'm just guessing, but I doubt you are a doctor. You need to see one if you want to fix the problem.

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      • DuchessK

        You might not be crazy, but you are sick and disturbed. You really should check someone who can help. This is serious, dear!

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  • TheEyesTheySee

    might be schizophrenia, you're seeing bruises that arent there from one day to the other and smell things others cant smell. the smell of decomposition is a strong one

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  • Bo

    It definitely has something to do with your nose my man, maybe you have a scar or scratch that u didn't clean very well. Also I have one more thing for u to try. Rub a finger behind your ear and smell of that's the same sMell that u smell then you found your problem, if you don't rub the back of your ears well enough they start to em8t this foul odor. Try it out and come back 5o me my man.

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