Erin Allman‑Updyke

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This Podcast Will Kill You · Ep 221 Electroconvulsive Therapy Part 2: A current conversation · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

Um, but briefly, catatonia is considered a psychomotor condition, meaning there's psychological symptoms and then there's actually these motor symptoms that we see.

It used to be considered just a subset of schizophrenia, but it is not by any means a subset of schizophrenia.

It can happen in a pretty wide variety of psychological and neurological conditions.

But what we see in catatonia is this profound unresponsiveness where people are awake, their eyes are open, but they are not responsive to the world around them.

They're often uh they don't talk at all.

So they have what's considered mutism, or sometimes they'll have something called echolalia, which is this like repetitive vocalizations, either repeating specific words or maybe repeating a word that you said.

Their body is very rigid.

There's something called catalepsy, which is where uh and also this thing they call waxy flexibility, where you like let's say that I moved someone's arm into this upright position.

And then I look took my hand away, it would just stay there.

they wouldn't move back down.

And so people are very, very immobile in this kind of rigid state.

And because of how immobile and because of how unresponsive people are in catatonia, this is a pretty life-threatening condition.

People generally cannot eat.

They're going to have substantial weight loss and malnutrition.

They're not moving.

So they're at risk of developing things like pressure ulcers, which of course can get infected and cause major problems.

And depending on what position they're in and how rigid they are, they also can start to have like muscle breakdown in things, right?

You imagine that your muscle is in this contracted position for a really long time.

You can end up with contractures in the long term.

Catatonia from any cause can have a mortality rate of up to twenty percent if it's untreated.

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