She could be catatonic one day, or act out like a banshee on another.

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He was diagnosed with catatonic schizophrenia and spent the next 32 years in mental asylums.

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Woke up still in a catatonic state suffering from strange dreams (placenta and forceps featured heavily) and nerves.

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"Dave was in a catatonic state, " says Mary Sammons , head of operations.

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Even under heavy throttle, the upshifts are creamy-smooth, and when the GL350 reaches highway speeds, the transmission slips into a nearly catatonic double overdrive.

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She went from being completely catatonic to teaching at a university.

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He lay motionless for hours facing a wall, semi-catatonic.

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Symptoms can include delusions, hallucinations and catatonic movements.

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At three, I started with my catatonic fits.

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They were catatonic, laid low.

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Had anyone seen the child during these two- and three-hour sessions, bringing his soles together and in to train the pectineus, bobbing slightly and then holding a deep cross-legged lean to work the great tight sheet of thoracolumbar fascia that connected his pelvis to his dorsal costae, he would have appeared to that person either prayerful or catatonic, or both.

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