All 5 Uses of
catatonic
in
Girl Interrupted
- But the TV audience was mostly catatonics and depressives, who were disinclined to move.†
- And this way we all passed through a month or two, Lisa and the catatonics in the TV room, Polly walking like a motorized corpse, Cynthia crying after electroshock ("I'm not sad," she explained to me, "but I can't help crying"), and me and Georgina in our double suite.†
- She had wrapped all the furniture, some of it holding catatonics, and the TV and the sprinkler system on the ceiling in toilet paper.†
- In the end a couple of catatonics were teamed up and Daisy's room was ready for her arrival on November fifteenth.†
- There are a lot of names: depression, catatonia, mania, anxiety, agitation.†
*catatonia = a medical condition in which there is a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods
Definition:
a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods
(may give way to short periods of extreme excitement; often associated with schizophrenia)
(may give way to short periods of extreme excitement; often associated with schizophrenia)