Whats a daily routine for someone who has Catatonic schizophrenia or any type of schizophrenia?
Generally, they are given a bed bath, drugged, dumped in front of the window in their wheel chair. Every once in a while someone will empty the catheter bag, and if they remember, they’ll adjust the position of the patient to prevent pressure sores. Maybe on the odd occasion, someone might try to coax the patient to talk or respond. Sometimes they’ll cart him off and plug his brains into the electric socket to see if that will wake him up (electroshock). As far as I can tell, very little of what goes on inside mental institutions has any point. Much of it is just drudgery and routine, certainly nothing that might stimulate people to get well. If the catatonic remains in his stupor long enough, his stupor is regarded as normal, and people no longer notice the catatonia as an aberration. Is there any such treatment for the disease? I think it’s a mistake to think of catatonia as a “disease” – catatonia refers to a behaviour, which can have many causes. It can be caused organically (such
