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Poor lady, does she suffer a lot ?

I was in a similar condition for months. I cannot even begin to describe...

Can they be much quicker than this but still have some stiffness and slower response. I call it robotic movement, and very erect posture. But he can shake hands and respond fine to everything jst very awkward and flat.

@jonathanpeterrogers would be good to inform watchers that this is a demo with an actress.

What gender is it?

Hello Dr Rogers. I have just watched your videos and read your article and am convinced that this is what my husband has been suffering from for the last 8 years. The consultant that we saw at addenbrookes diagnosed him with non epileptic disaccociative seizures and said there is no cure for it and he has to live with it and that's it. He has become a prisoner in his own home as he cannot go out in case of his seizures. He has about 4 to 5 seizures daily which can last from about 20 minutes to 2 hrs. A family doctor has said that he is sure this is catatonia and not what specialist has diagnosed. I have videos of his episodes .Is there any way that we could be seen by you through NHS ?

'Scared stiff' is what this condition should be called and, talking from experience, people can recover from it given regular interaction with people they know and trust deep inside, preferably friends or family. My now recovered son told me his mind was preoccupied with impending dangers which could be avoided ONLY by focusing on them non stop. He understood the logic in our conversations, but the risk was too great if he stopped his ruminations. He managed to begin escaping those deeply trenched thoughts after doing 6-7 electric therapy session. Even if he did give that method up at that point, it had managed to get him some ways out of the trench. After that, he was gradually able to set himself the goal of finishing his studies, and with 'voices' still constantly grabbing his attention, he managed to do this in 3 years. Now, 7 years since he first started to hear them, he tells me he has no voices any more, only medication holds him back from further studies by taking away his ability to focus. He went from being catatonic and refusing to eat or even raise his head, to being mostly functional today. His advice to everyone is : "TAKE THE RISK, IT'S THE WAY OUT". Catatonia, and schizophrenia in general, are just extreme forms of ANXIETY.

Interesting 🙂

Sad

I have autistic catatonia.. it’s like a regression of major skills including motor skills (fine & gross), a slow progressive regression of skills until you can reach this full blown catatonic state. I believe I’ve reached this state after a seizure. Then lost all skills and went full catatonic too that day .. I had one other full blown catatonic episode but I had thought and understood my surroundings but couldn’t soeak or do what they asked and was trapped in my body doing all the typical things.., so maybe not 100% full 🤷‍♀️ That day it kept coming on and off, until they gave me Ativan. Now I’m in a constant regressed state of autism regression and have to be very careful to protect my sensory stimuli (I have sensory processing disorder), I can’t talk in any form, even text, to people for too long, the language processing overloads me then I suddenly without warning shutdown and need help b4 it gets catatonic again. I can’t basically do much and I lost many many skills (self care, I drop things, am clumsy, dizzy etc etc and I’m always borderline, like it’s ok and then not ok .. and then very not ok. It’s very scary cos there’s no real cure 🙃🙃🙃

Thank you for educating us but to be honest, "Did she give consent for this to be taped and so publicly distributed" was the only thing I could think of during the entire video, so perhaps making that known at the very beginning could be helpful for viewers like me so we don't feel so intrusive and distracted by such discomfort. I hope she didn't suffer inwardly with panic attacks as I've heard some people might during catatonic episodes. Wish her all the best

I can't watch this bulshit

Pure girl😢. Hope you can help her....💔

That’s not catatonia. Catatonics do not move, do not respond, and very, very firmly lock frozen in place.

Why do you have to trick people and to not make it clear that this is not real...?

Rare to see so many signs in one patient.

they are actors i reckon

oh yeah and the doctor is a perfect person, right

I got into a similar state when I accidentally had an overdose of cannabis oil. Was terrible, I struggled to process.

Yep went full catatonic after severe panic attack in front of doctors then they restrained me almost broke my own jaw because everything locked up. Terrible. This is from trauma

Any way he is faking this?

She clocked you enter the room...the rest is an act.

Metadon mefadron

Heartbreaking 😢

Thank you for this demonstration. I remember teaching Psychology 30 some years ago and I had to explain some of the more serious psychological disorders to my students. However, since in those days there were no videos to demonstrate these conditions even to teachers, I had a difficult time envisioning what they entailed.

I love the patience of this man.. subduing trust and his overall love for the individual…You can see he wants to help and learn at the same time…

Stuck in a freeze state like a possum

Physical pain can be horrible but I believe the mind can inflict worse pain. I worked 22 years in psychairtric centers as a therapy aide because I felt a strong urge to help. I know it did because I saw a note left by a patient on her night stand and it said she hoped that I was working that day along with another worker because we made her feel happy. (She was missing and we were searching for any clue as to where she went-not being nosy-she came back) That one note stuck with me because you never know what effect you have on others.

Doesn't a person with cataonia ever get tired of being in the same position for long periods of time?

To me this person is in a hypnotic state of mind. Have you tried to break the hypnotic state of mind?

She seems so depressed…

This is just a demo read the description, it's acting

Basically, my perfect girlfriend

I remember seeing a Catatonic patient when I was in a Psych Hospital rotation in nursing school in the 1960’s. The woman was on top of a table in the most uncomfortable, odd and twisted looking position of her body and she stayed that way for hours not moving at all.

This was a real patient? Looked pretty real. (Got a thumb up on this one, not sure though what a real one would look or sound like, but this was very peculiar sounding to me).

God bless You and World

The man was distracting because he was sitting there like a chimpanzee the whole time and then scratched his head a couple times by reaching his arm waaaaay out and then to the top of his head exactly like a chimp. 🐵

Psychedelics, as we all know, are very queer things: some parts are presented with appalling vividness, with details worked up with the elaborate finish of jewellery, while others one gallops through, as it were, without noticing them at all, as, for instance, through space and time. Psychedelics seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in psychedelics, what utterly incomprehensible things happen to it!

Antipsychotics do this to patients. The drugs are like cement in the brain.

This is like apaty.Is in block.

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I ended up here because my doctor brought it up when I get quiet and cant move or talk. Idk how to explain it. I am thinking but its hard to interact. Inside, Im telling myself to get up and move, but i cant.

And I thought psycomotor funktion retardation is bad. But there your acualy still able to move some what.

As has been mentioned this lady might have just been co-opted to act the part of someone with this issue - I don't think so though. If she is a real sufferer then a little more possibly needed to be done in providing assurance and looking to use 'communication switches' to help the patient to start the mentall process to choose to exit from this state. A patient I dealt with when I was just a nursing assistant was in this state and saying absolutely nothing. He was however listening and taking in my conversation. Taking an interest in the patient and offering continued assistance, even if this is to be then next day, is more important than piling on drug treatment. The gentleman I dealt with was, at some level by mental effort, remaining in this mentally locked state. This was regardless of the amount of drugs given to force the mind to lose its own control. Not wanting to merely leave him to think he was alone in resolving his situation but unsure if he was even comorehending my conversation with him, I explained that I would continue to come and talk to him but I could not spend too much of my time just chatting about things - life, ways of thinking, possible issues or just how I saw different things - so I would stop talking now and go and help people who responded to what I said, whether they agreed disagreed or wanted to add their perspective. He had been on an ever increasing dose on medication for about a week, within about 24 hours of this clarification of my and his role in his recovery he unlocked his own MIND. It is another aside to discuss dealing with the fact that simultaneously his drugged BRAIN was also unlocked; he was nearly bouncing off the walls! Trust this provides insight to a challenging field.

I ended up here because of curiosity, and it's something I wasn't aware before. Thank you for the demonstration. I hope aside from kindness and compassion there are further ways to help people in such situations.

Really helpful for my exam!Thank you!

Must be nice she’s just acting,

Bros literally Micheal Myers

Being stuck in this state of mind can be really scary, this happened to me and I dont even know how to explain how I felt.

This is literally heartbreaking. It makes me cry.