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Taimaat
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28 Apr 2008, 7:04 pm

It is horrible how our society favors being in “touch with reality” over a person's well being, feeding them toxic substances just for the social control. I've been told too many times that I wasn't in touch with reality, when I did, but the fact of the mater is I don't like it, and I don't want a bunch of NT's who just believe whatever they hear to believe the nonsense they were being told.


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29 Apr 2008, 9:12 am

Here is an account of the history of catatonia: http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/22 ... xcerpt.pdf .

The first description of a person in a catatonic state is by the English physician, Philip Barrough, in 1583. He writes that it is called catalepsis in Greek or conglation in English.

The concept of catatonia weas formulated and named by the German clinician, Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum (1828-1899) in 1865. It was included by Emil Kraepelin in his concept of dementia praecox, for which there was criticism by other psychiatrists.



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29 Apr 2008, 3:07 pm

Wing and Shah in Catatonia in autistic spectrum disorders stated that none of their 30 patients with catatonia

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had ever showed first ranks symptoms of schizophrenia.


Hallucinations or delusions are not necessary for a diagnosis of schizophrenia, at least according to the ICD (International Classification of Diseases) of the World Health Organization. It defines Simple Schizophrenia as follows:
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An uncommon disorder in which there is an insidious but progressive development of oddities of conduct, inability to meet the demands of society, and decline in total performance. Delusions and hallucinations are not evident, and the disorder is less obviously psychotic than the hebephrenic, paranoid or catatonic subtypes of schizophrenia. The characteristic 'negative' features of residual schizophrenia (e.g. blunting of affect, loss of volition) develop without being preceded by any overt psychotic symptoms. With increasing social impoverishment, vagrancy may ensue and the individual may then become self-absorbed, idle and aimless.
See http://counsellingresource.com/distress ... imple.html

A fairly recently published psychiatric dictionary states that among people with simple schizophrenia are eccentrics. Aspies are sometimes described as eccentric.