This may explain the recent transgender fad
/Woman suffering from depression thinks she’s a rooster. Not a hen, a rooster.
When being a human gets too hard, the brain will cope with psychological stress in fascinating ways.
…. In the Dutch medical journal Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie, psychologists described the case of one 54-year-old woman, unnamed in their case study, who was found in her garden “clucking and crowing like a rooster” — a condition called zoanthropy, or the delusion of believing oneself is not human, but animal.
They described the woman as being “disoriented” during their examination, while also reporting an unfamiliar sensation in her limbs, “as if they were not fit for her body … and flapped uncontrollably,” the study read. The patient noted that she’d hardly slept in five days.
…. After an emergency dose of an anti-epileptic drug, the woman slept for several hours at the hospital.
Upon waking, she was back to normal — but she had no recollection of her stint as a chicken.
…. Perhaps one of the first known cases of zoanthropy can be found in the Bible’s book of Daniel where it is written that King Nebuchadnezzar was condemned by God to live as a cow — called boanthropy — for seven years as a remedy for the Babylonian ruler’s arrogance. Medical historians believe, if not God, that his condition may have been part of hallucinations caused by advanced syphilis or some other neurological disorder.
So, maybe dose them with anti-epileptic drugs?
Just sayin’.