I had catatonic stupor in the summer of 2008 due to severe depression. I actually remember very little of the 6-8 weeks that I was like that: I think maybe it impairs memory formation. What I do remember is that it felt soooooo tiring to move and respond to stimuli so I usually just ignored it. I could still think things in my head but my thoughts were very slow and actually verbalising them was too much effort. I would sit in the exact same position for hours and not feel like that much time had gone by. Mostly I just tried to close my eyes and sleep because I was so tired, but I don't know if I actually fell asleep or not.

Nobody professional in my home town was that concerned about it (my Uni pdoc sent me home), though my parents were really worried about me. I was on an antidepressant but they never tried to increase it or anything while I was like that. All I remember is a nurse screaming at me for faking it for attention and calling me rude because I couldn't answer her questions. (It didn't occur to me to tell my parents about her, and I was so exhausted from trying to summon the energy to talk to her though I couldn't, that I probably wouldn't have been able to tell them anyway.)

Is that kind of what you wanted to know?? I know it scared the cr@p out of me when I 'woke up' out of it, that I could be so out of control like that.

*Willow*