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What, weird. They must have changed the interface or something. The person above is me. Apparently it logged me out of the session randomly

So, I started seeing a therapist for the first time a few months ago. She consulted a psychiatrist that she works with about the catatonia, and came back with the opinion that she thinks my problem is not psychological in origin. Apparently my cognizance and concern about this is generally an...

I'm sorry that you are going through this, and for all that you have endured during your life. I can relate, for what it's worth. I experienced physical, sexual, and emotional abuse from toddler age to my early twenties, then had a decade worth of severe emotional abuse, and when that ended...

lol @ "catatonia expert". smh. It was my psychiatrist here in Milwaukee. I am in the process of switching my insurance so that I can get in at a place that does trauma-specific things like EMDR here. Have you tried EMDR? edit. wait, was it me that said what? I thought at first that you...

I skimmed it; it seems to kind of confirm my loose understanding of how the two correlate. Basically one and the same. DSM V lists other things as causes of catatonia, does it not? That'll be helpful, 'cause I have no schizo diagnoses. Regardless, I don't know if anyone has added an official...

Sorry you are having a rough time. I hope it subsides soon. I remember you talking about it in the last thread, but nobody was throwing around 'tonic immobility'. Does what I described line up with what you have? :(

Nope, and I've had other strong stimuli fail to make me snap out. Should Ativan be able to snap you out of TI, being a natural defense mechanism? I mean, my heart rate and breathing slow so much from the opioids that I don't see how benzodiazepines, slowing things down more, would do the...

Ativan seemed to have no effect. I have had them between minutes and an hour before an episode, and it happened anyway. Catatonia, I believe, includes TI, does it not? Just kind of a blanket term. I can tell you, I am fully unresponsive. If there was a fire in the room, I'd be BBQ...

As per the dopamine, as soon as my muscles go rigid and all of the aforementioned symptoms hit, I feel it flood my body. Don't quote me, but I think the term is "opioid-mediated analgesia", something your brain does when you're pinned down by a predator (and under other circumstances...

How does it present with you, if I may ask?

Perhaps due to incompetence on the part of treatment personnel, it has taken me quite a while to figure out that the symptoms that I experience at times are part of tonic immobility. When I dig around the interwebs for information about peritraumatic (post-trama) tonic immobility, there seem to...

Hey. Still hanging in... Wanted to check in and share what has been going on, I know a good amount of folks were looking at this. Dropped the Psychiatrist a few months ago, looking for a new one. She ended up raising her voice at me over the phone, she misheard something I said and got all...

@joeylittle, some good points. fwiw, my Mom has MS. I hope there aren't any lesions... Ughn. Again, just sharing how I think my symptoms fit; a little of the Akinetic mutism seems applicable, but from my perspective, it seems way too broad to be likely. The non-convulsive epilepsy seems...

@shimmerz, thanks. I'll be seeking better treatment, effective immediately. I'm sorry if this thread has contributed to your frustration. I appreciate your, and everyone else's input.

I had a good trauma therapist in Chicago, but haven't located one here. I will try and find one here. @joeylittle, reading it now. Right off the bat, based on what I've read of each; Yes, although I don't respond to stimuli, it seems. It fits better with... yes yes yes yes no no no...

I'm seeing a psychiatrist, and will be looking for a more appropriate one in the very near future.

What Shimmerz said. I just want to know what I can do. And yes, it's very dangerous that it approaches so quickly at times. Driving? Out of the question. My partner is with me 95% of any given day. I'm a lucky lady for being with someone so patient and loving!

Yup, she is. I'll avoid the word next time I try and describe my symptoms, don't want anyone thinking I'm diagnosing myself. :|

I don't know about the word flaccid. Everything freezes stiff. My boyfriend peeled my hand off of my mouse, and it remained in the mouse-clicking position the entire time. Is that the same thing being described? I'll try and steer clear of using medical terminology, since, you know. Most...

No way I could drink water, would go straight into my lungs. Thanks for the tips! I posted my traumatic experiences earlier on in this thread; there have been a lot of them, some very severe. Childhood experiences, adult experiences. The trauma must be, as they say, complex.

I'll talk to her about it, although I don't know how that will go. @shimmerz , When it does approach gradually, I'm usually having flashbacks before it happens, so that is the most obvious warning sign for me. A few days ago, I was really upset about him going to work for a long shift. He...

No, he doesn't. My Ativan is in regular old tablet form. Psychiatrist prescribed it for anxiety. Through a little thinking, I think that it probably does help. I have been taking less, and it seems like I am stepping out more often, but still not as much as pre-Ativan. Sometimes I get that...

*nods* Certainly. I will work on that asap.

^ :( I read your post describing your symptoms. I haven't been out for anything longer than a few hours, but some days it's on and off all day. Some days it never happens at all. I do sweat profusely, and is often, but not always, accompanied by time lapse. Although that's probably not...

*nods* Almost as negligent as my psychiatrist hearing me describe the symptoms, hear me use the word "catatonic", in the common usage sense, and then say IMPOSSIBLE and change the subject, never to address it again.