A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry.
The young woman was catatonic, stuck at the nurses' station - unmoving, unblinking and unknowing of where or who she was./ Before she became a patient, April had been an outgoing, straight-A student majoring in accounting at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. But after a traumatic event when she was 21, April suddenly developed psychosis and became lost in a constant state of visual and auditory hallucinations. The former high school valedictorian could no longer communicate, bathe or take care of herself. April was diagnosed with a ...
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