Hysterical Stupor

- a state of pronounced inhibition with refusal to eat, persistent silence and narrowed consciousness. Unlike the usual reactive stupor, when patients are in a state of sharp lethargy, sluggishness, numbness, with a hysterical stupor, there is a strong muscle tension and resistance to any attempt to change his posture. Mimicry reflects despair, anger, grief. Any reminder of the psychotraumatic situation causes vegetative reactions in the form of redness of the facial skin, increased heart rate, respiration. Exit from the stupor state can occur immediately after a favorable resolution of the situation or occurs gradually with the emergence of other hysterical symptoms (paralysis, trembling in the body, violation of gait).
Long reactive psychoses include reactive depression and reactive paranoids (delirious psychosis).