Giving Up on Life Can Lead to Actual Death in Less Than A Month by C. Purdy
Yes, People Can Die From Giving Up on Life
Why losing the will to live can be deadly within three weeks
Trauma can lead to death from ‘give-up-itis’, study finds
People Who Give Up on Life Can Die From “Psychogenic Death,” Say Scientists
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By Emma Betuel
on September 28, 2018
…..Segal, eventually termed this syndrome “give-up-itis.” John Leach Ph.D., a visiting senior research fellow at the University of Portsmouth in England and a former military psychologist typically calls it “psychogenic death” but admits that “give-up-itis” is bitingly accurate:
“Basically it’s a horrible term” Leach tells Inverse. “But it’s a descriptive term. There were always those people who just gave up — curled up, laid down and died. In many cases these were otherwise healthy men and women, and the thing that stood out was that their death was basically inexplicable. But it appears that there’s an underlying organic cause for it.”
