Catathymia

Catathymia is a serious psychiatric disorder characterized by a form of Trementia, symptoms primarly include disturbed contact with reality and how one expresses. Catathymia shares comorbidities with schizophrenia primarly due to silly behaviors.

The recommended treatment for Catathymia are antideliriants, mood stabilizers and occasionally antipsychotics. Severe cases of catathymia have been reported to also have an epileptic disorder. When Catathymia occurs at later onset beyond childhood, there is a prodormal phase known as Infantlie Pre-Catathymia (IPC).

DSM-P Criteria (Detailed)
A. At least two of the following, each present for a significant portion of the time during a one month period (or less if successfully treated):


 * 1) Perceptual	distortions (e.g., mother is replaced by a monster, known as well as	sensory substitution, people appearing more or less menacing,	sensory environment appearing darker or brighter)
 * 2) Oneirataxia	(e.g., not differentiating between thoughts and reality or dreams,	thinking one’s thoughts may be real or real things are actually	just generated from the imagination)
 * 3) Disoriented	speech (e.g., verbal responses and thoughts not corresponding to	what is wanted to be said/thought, semantic substitution, illogical	or grossly repetitive responses to different questions, jargon,	inappropriately finishing others’ phrases)
 * 4) Grossly disoriented (e.g., behavioral activity does not correspond to what is wanted to be done, socially inappropriate behaviors, responding to oneself or thoughts as if they were real, lack of postural reaction to gravity, extreme, un-triggered excitation) or epitonic Behavior (e.g., repeating the same motor and verbal activity back and forth for short or long periods of times, executing actions very different from what is instructed, communication with lifeless objects, short or long episodes of psycho-motor paralysis, hyper- or hypo-reactivity to sensory stimuli, random motor movements or grabbing objects in the void)
 * 5) Negative	symptoms (e.g., inability to move, inability to speak or even make	verbal sounds, severe depression, disorientation in time, space and	self)

B. Continuous disturbances for six months (attenuated symptoms, residual symptoms)

C. Social or occupational dysfunction (or both) for a significant portion of the time

DSM-P Criteria (Simplified)
A. At least two of the following, each present for a significant portion of the time during a one month period (or less if successfully treated):


 * 1) Perceptual distortions
 * 2) Oneirataxia
 * 3) Disoriented speech
 * 4) Grossly disoriented or	epitonic Behavior
 * 5) Negative symptoms

B. Continuous disturbances for six months (attenuated symptoms, residual symptoms)

C. Social or occupational dysfunction (or both) for a significant portion of the time

Physical characteristics
Those with Catathymia, like Hypotypals, have their own physical characteristics, as shown on the picture in the right.

Stigma
Catathymia has long been stigmatized and labeled as "the beast's disease", it has long been associated with murder, one of the principal symptoms of Catathymia includes perturbances in behavior and can result in impulsive murdering and rape, this type of perturbance however is only common in a minority, as much as 6% of patients with Catathymia have been reported as having murderous tendencies.

Most cases of murders associated with Catathymia are caused by extreme rage, perturbed behavior and catakinetic/cataholic agitation.

Other pages

 * Physiology of Catathymia
 * Catatomy