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What do patients with catatonic schizophrenia usually report feeling?


After catatonia occurences, what does a CS patient report feeling/thinking during the episode?

I can't speak for everyone, or even say my experience is typical, but this is what I can recollect:

Nothing. Apathy. I'm not really aware of what's going on around me, and the very little that gets through generally doesn't make sense, and on the rare occasion it does, I don't care. I don't feel like me. I feel very detached, like I'm watching some weird parody of life on an alien planet. It's not that I don't recognize my loved ones, but that spark of emotion that we take forgranted is absent. I also feel very childish, like I want to regress to being very young and unresponsible (not a word, but irresponsible isn't what I mean). I get this fuzzy feeling from the outside world, nothing comes in clear, it's like being heavily drugged without the drugged feeling. I have a high tolerence to pain under normal circumstances, but I've heard that I've completely ignored painful stimuli like sharp pins and high heat. I'm sorry if this doesn't make a lot of sense, but it's like trying to describe the color red to someone who was born blind. It's a very inchoate experience that doesn't translate well to sanity. And it's very hard to recapture the essense of catatonia when I'm not suffering from it's effects. The more "sane" I become, the less that any of my past symptoms make sense.

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