What is Catatonia?
{{Infobox_Disease | Name = Catatonic schizophrenia | ICD10 = {{ICD10|F|20|2|f|20}} | ICD9 = {{ICD9|295.2}} | MeshID = D002389 }} '''Catatonia''' means a person is awake, but does not move, talk, or react to anything but pain.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zkp10N5Hu4oC&dq=catatonia+still+pain&pg=PA25|title=Catatonia: A Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment|last1=Fink|first1=Max|last2=Taylor|first2=Michael Alan|date=2006-11-23|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-03236-0|language=en}}</ref> The person can stay stiff and still for hours. A person with catatonia may look to be in a stupor (being mentally numb and in a daze). The cause is in the [[nervous system]]; the [[brain]] and [[nerve]]s. This problem was first written about in 1874 in ''Die Katatonie oder das Spannungsirresein''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum|url=http://www.entwicklung-der-psychiatrie.de/seiten/24.1_kahlbaum_die_katatonie.htm|access-date=12 August 2014|author=Dr Hans-Peter Haack|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100406012208/http://www.entwicklung-der-psychiatrie.de/seiten/24.1_kahlbaum_die_katatonie.htm|archive-date=6 April 2010|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> == Causes == Catatonia can sometimes happen with mental disorders. It can be a [[symptom]] of [[schizophrenia]], [[bipolar disorder]], [[post-traumatic stress disorder]], and [[Clinical depression|depression]]. Catatonia may also happen when a person abuses drugs or [[overdose]]s by taking too much of a drug. Catatonia can also be caused by many different medical disorders. Some causes are [[infection]]s, such as [[encephalitis]]; [[autoimmune disease]]s; damage to the brain from [[stroke]]s; and [[metabolism|metabolic]] problems. A person can also get catatonia from benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome, which happens if the person quickly stops taking [[benzodiazepine]] medications.<ref>{{cite journal |date=August 1996 | title = Catatonia after benzodiazepine withdrawal | journal = Journa