{"id":140236,"date":"2022-06-07T04:03:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T09:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/catatonia-the-persons-body-may-be-frozen-but-their-minds-are-not"},"modified":"2022-06-07T04:03:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T09:03:11","slug":"catatonia-the-persons-body-may-be-frozen-but-their-minds-are-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/catatonia-the-persons-body-may-be-frozen-but-their-minds-are-not","title":{"rendered":"Catatonia: the person\u2019s body may be frozen, but their minds are not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/catatonia-the-persons-body-may-be-frozen-but-their-minds-are-not3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One theory for is that it is <a href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/record\/2004-19012-007?doi=1\">similar to the \u201cdeath feint\u201d<\/a> that some animals show. When faced with a predator of overwhelming size or strength, some prey animals will freeze and presumably the predator may not notice them.<\/p>\n<p>One patient in the study vividly described seeing a snake (which also spoke to her). We can\u2019t say from one example that her body was adopting a primitive defence to a predator, but it\u2019s certainly a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Catatonia remains a mysterious condition, stuck halfway between neurology and psychiatry. At least by understanding what people may be experiencing, we can provide reassurance and empathy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One theory for is that it is similar to the \u201cdeath feint\u201d that some animals show. When faced with a predator of overwhelming size or strength, some prey animals will freeze and presumably the predator may not notice them. One patient in the study vividly described seeing a snake (which also spoke to her). We [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}