What Is Catatonic Schizophrenia?
7. Posturing
Many patients with catatonic schizophrenia will also experience posturing. This is when the patient will move into a position that opposes gravity, and then hold that position. Another symptom is negativism, which is a lack of response to instructions or other stimuli. Some patients will also show an active resistance to stimuli.
Some patients will also experience mutism, which is when they have no verbal response to stimuli around them. They can appear to be aware of the stimuli and even respond to it in other ways, but not verbally. The patient will usually have no difficulty in speaking at other times.
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