Does anyone have catatonic type?

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I know it is only like 1 percent of schizophrenics or something. Just wondering if anyone else has had catatonia and how you are doing with it. I might not get replies to this one but thought I would try.

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During my last break I had an episode in which I stayed completely still laying in a bed, without closing my eyes, starring at the ceiling for hours. The tears were falling from my eyes since I wouldn’t shut them. Don’t really know if catatonia, but people were talking to me and trying to make do something and I was just there, unresponsive, unmovable.

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Supposedly the meds have made catonia much more uncommon. They only consider it catotonia if you’re still unresponsive on meds. Catonia was way more common in the 1800s.

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At the time I was taking a non-therapeutic dose of olanzapine so yeah. It lasted like a quarter of the day.

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If I’m not mistaken @Azley was catatonic once.

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I have felt like I was going catatonic before just being still for long periods of time

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not totally… just mostly bed ridden for about a year… people were to scary and I didn’t have ■■■■ to do anyways… just laid there hearing voices and getting pissed and scared that I was hearing voices…

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That sucks man. You’re strong now, you’ve been through so much :slight_smile:

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thanks @minnii :grimacing:

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No problem brother :grin:

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I suffered from severe apathy. I was in bed on my back for 4-7 days without eating. I don’t remember drinking or anything. But I must have. This was when I came to hospital for the second time. I don’t remember how many days, just been told it was several days. My husband visited every day and I don’t remember that and he could not get contact with me.

I was surrounded by my hallucinations. Scary as hell.

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Depends on which part you are asking about. Catonic sz has many variants -

a. stupor (marked decrease in reactivity to the environment and in spontaneous movements and activity) or mutism;
b. excitement (apparently purposeless motor activity, not influenced by external stimuli);
c. posturing (voluntary assumption and maintenance of inappropriate or bizarre postures);
d. negativism (an apparently motiveless resistance to all instructions or attempts to be moved, or movement in the opposite direction);
e. rigidity (maintenance of a rigid posture against efforts to be moved);
f. waxy flexibility (maintenance of limbs and body in externally imposed positions); and
g. other symptoms such as command automatism (automatic compliance with instructions), and perseveration of words and phrases.

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I have been diagnosed with catatonic type and haven’t had those symptoms but was completely unable to move even if I wanted to… Could not talk even one work and could not move my eyes for months. I guess that’s the kind I am referring to.

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that would classified under the a catatonia I think. Catatonic type I think is a rarer form but in the early years I had episodes of a, e, g. but not for long periods usually a day or so. Haven’t had them since my 20’s.

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Oh yes! I missed a somehow you are right.

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Hey :wave: I’m actually having a catatonic schizophrenia, I think it’s cool and fun, but sometimes it’s crazy, because you lose control over yourself, that’s why I stay at home and don’t walk out.