catatonic

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"I became completely catatonic, and my father was so worried that he sent me to Missouri for the summer to live on a farm and try to get over it," Stevens recalls during a conversation from her Los Angeles home.

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  • Shih seemed to have fainted, or gone catatonic, and she had to put an arm under his knees, and lift him up and carry him, resting him on the top shelf of her pregnant belly. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Someone had to keep the passengers content, or at least catatonic, and she would shuck and hustle with the best; she just drew the line at kidnapping and murder. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2002
  • He could slowly sink into boredom until nearly catatonic, only to find himself catapulted into a frenzied state of fear. —  Brown Waters, Black Berets
  • I'm catatonic, lying on the floor of the van surrounded by camera equipment, the legs of my pants sticky with Chloe's blood, and sometimes what's outside the windows of the van is just blackness, and other times it's a desert, maybe somewhere outside L.A., and other times it's a matte screen, sometimes electric blue, sometimes blinding white. —  Glamorama
  • Dr. Gerandy was throwing around words like 'catatonic,' but I didn't let him up to see her. —  Meyer, Stephenie - New Moon
 

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