catatonics
Motionless psychiatric cases
Catatonics are people in a state of catatonia—a condition marked by unresponsiveness, rigid posture, and lack of voluntary movement.
The term appears in medical and psychiatric contexts, but also figuratively for anyone seeming frozen or mentally absent: The catatonics in the day room sat motionless for hours.
After the news, we were all catatonics.
Psychotic disorder with delusions
- psychosisSevere reality detachment
- psychiatryMental health medicine
- antipsychoticDrug treating psychosis
- neurolepticPsychiatric medication blocking dopamine
electroconvulsive · hospitalization · ward · patient · diagnosis · symptom · disorder · treatment
Loss of muscle function
- rigidityState of being unbending
- stillnessComplete lack of motion
- stasisState of inactivity
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
motionless · petrification · statuesque · immovable · torpor · inertia · fixation · suspension
Without voice or sound
- blankWithout marks or content
- vacantWithout an occupant
- expressionlessShowing no feeling
- withdrawnEmotionally distant, disengaged
unreactive · insensible · impassive · deadpan · voiceless · wordless · glazed · staring
Separation or emotional uninvolvement
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- disconnectionState of being severed
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
- disengagementWithdrawal from involvement
isolation · numbness · emptiness · absence · void · aloofness · remoteness · fugue
schizophrenia
Psychotic disorder with delusions
- psychosisSevere reality detachment
- psychiatryMental health medicine
- antipsychoticDrug treating psychosis
neuroleptic · electroconvulsive · hospitalization · ward · patient · diagnosis · symptom · disorder · treatment · therapy
paralysis
Loss of muscle function
frozen · motionless · petrification · statuesque · immovable · torpor · inertia · fixation · suspension · dormancy
mute
Without voice or sound
- blankWithout marks or content
- vacantWithout an occupant
- expressionlessShowing no feeling
withdrawn · unreactive · insensible · impassive · deadpan · voiceless · wordless · glazed · staring · unseeing
detachment
Separation or emotional uninvolvement
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- disconnectionState of being severed
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
disengagement · isolation · numbness · emptiness · absence · void · aloofness · remoteness · fugue · depersonalization
catatonicslive wires
Highly energetic people
dynamos · livewires · fireballs · go-getters · sparkplugs