Case Report, May/22: Benzodiazepine withdrawal catatonia: Two cases...

The full title of this Indian case report is "Benzodiazepine withdrawal catatonia: Two cases from a tertiary care center in Eastern India".

 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35800879/

 

Abstract

 

Catatonia is a diagnostic entity of a neuropsychiatric cluster of symptoms that can occur in a number of different psychiatric, neurologic, and metabolic disorders. Benzodiazepines remain the mainstay of the treatment of catatonia through their possible effect on the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptor modulation in the central nervous system (CNS). Rarely, patients have been seen to manifest catatonic symptoms when they face sudden withdrawal from long-term benzodiazepine treatment. Here, we have presented two such cases of different clinical profiles where following benzodiazepine withdrawal, sudden catatonic symptoms emerged that responded quickly on re-administration of benzodiazepines.

 

Full Report:

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9255623/

 

That's an interesting article.  I feel like I'm catatonic most of the time from my brain and nerves being damaged.