Stupor vs. Catatonia — What's the Difference?

Stupor is the lack of critical mental function and a level of consciousness, in which an affected person is almost entirely unresponsive and responds only to intense stimuli such as pain. The word derives from the Latin stupor ("numbness, insensibility").

Catatonia is a neuropsychiatric behavioral syndrome that is characterized by abnormal movements, immobility, abnormal behaviors, and withdrawal. The onset of catatonia can be acute or subtle and symptoms can wax, wane, or change during episodes.

A state of reduced sensibility or consciousness

A psychological condition marked by severe decreases or increases of movement. It is variously characterized by stupor, stereotypy, mutism, catalepsy, agitation, and extreme flexibility or rigidity of the limbs and is most often associated with schizophrenia.

A state of greatly dulled or completely suspended consciousness or sensibility; a chiefly mental condition marked by absence of spontaneous movement, greatly diminished responsiveness to stimulation, and usually impaired consciousness.

A severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.

A state of extreme apathy or torpor resulting often from stress or shock.

(informal) A frozen, unresponsive state, as of electronic equipment.

To place into a stupor; to stupefy.

An abnormal behavioral syndrome characterized by stupor, negativism, and muscular rigidity, sometimes alternating with purposeless excitement, and seen most frequently in schizophrenia; called also catatonic schizophrenia.

Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.

Extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia

Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.

A form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitement

The feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally;

Marginal consciousness;