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Originally Posted by blackwhitered
I see your point, but I just wanted to point out that catatonia can occur in bipolar. Both in depression and mania. I've actually seen catatonia in real life just once and the girl was bipolar 1, rapid cycling, and became catatonic when she was depressed.
On the one hand, it is hard to diagnose historical figures (Abraham Lincoln comes to mind) but I don't think it's impossible to rule things out, especially if you have a full memoir like in INPYaRG. (Plus that was more recent history.) Like if you read the book Sybil and then read Sybil Exposed, there is compelling evidence that Sybil didn't really have DID. But I haven't read INPYaRG, and I'm not a psychologist, so I can't really say.
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So I did read INPYaRG---its been a while though---the thing that really convinces me though is that Daniel Mackler the film maker is actually a psychologist/activist and her original pdoc was considered brilliant in her time both of these people are experts who have actually spoken to her rather than people who read her book which she admits was partially fiction. The Mackler movie take these broken wings is actually much more based in reality than her book. The other woman who was catatonic was that way not briefly but for many years---she was capable of walking but had her eyes closed for much of the time so she was virtually blind she simply sat and listened to her anaylist for many years without a word---when she did get better it was clear she had long term psychosis with all the usual hallucinations etc. so the duration I think is longer than you would see with bipolar I think.