Catalepsy is a certain state of a person, in some ways reminiscent of a dream, during which there is a deterioration in sensitivity to external environmental factors, as well as to various internal states of the body.
The common name "wax flexibility" is often used for such a state. In a similar state, people can maintain absolutely any position, without applying any physical effort.
Patients often develop dysfunction of the motor system, which is expressed in the preservation of the same position by separate parts of the body. This condition can be called quite typical for the standard case of catatonic syndrome.
In the presence of such a disorder people can be in difficult and very uncomfortable positions for a sufficiently long period of time.
Everyone knows that the onset of such a disorder as catalepsy can manifest itself both in the process of hypnotic sleep and with a certain list of progressive diseases of the psyche, for example, in schizophrenia or hysteria.
Why does this fail?
Different specialists on the causes of such a disorder as catalepsy, there are several points of view that have significant differences. The disease is characterized by neurological as well as psychological causes of development.
In the first version, experts argue that catalepsy is caused by several brain formations. 
In considering the second option, the corresponding argument is presented from a purely psychological point of view. For example, there is an opinion that wax flexibility can be caused by unnaturally increased subordination of the human will. The basis for the development of catalepsy is a separate localized exclusion of individual fragments of the cerebral cortex with simultaneous preservation of the normal functioning of the nervous motor system.
The main feature of this state is the preservation of the state of equilibrium of the body. However, such a function can be masked by all sorts of arbitrary gestures.
In the development of catalepsy, the effect of fragments of the cerebral cortex on the reflex responsible for stabilizing the position is manifested in a much more expressive manner. The development of wax flexibility is often preceded by sufficiently severe hysterical fits, as well as the state of excitement. The disappearance of such attacks is often accompanied by very violent affective manifestations.
A hysterical stupor that transfers the patient to some position, firmly fixes the pose. For example, there are often situations where patients simply freeze in one place during a dialogue with the attending physician.
People can communicate normally, while accompanying their words with natural gesticulation, and suddenly he is overtaken by another attack of an unpleasant illness. For such a state is characterized by the so-called wax flexibility, which allows to correct the patient's position, to give him absolutely any pose.
In some cases, the strength of muscle tension can be so great that two people can easily raise the patient, holding it only for the heels and the back of the head.
Symptomatic
The development of such a disorder as catalepsy occurs gradually and continues to spread in strict sequence:
- neck muscles;
- hands;
- torso;
- lower limbs.
The reverse development of the disorder is characterized by the opposite direction. In modern medical practice, there are many examples of not only transient catalepsy, but also very protracted disorders, the duration of which was from several weeks to 2-3 months.
It will not be possible to detect the development of a disorder during the onset of a stupor, since in such a state the patient can resist attempts to change the position. Catalepsy will be completely absent when a stupor is diagnosed with a simultaneous corded-out tissue.
Catalepsy in fact is one of the types of disturbances in the functioning of the nervous system, the result of which can be called the suspension of the natural vital functions of the body. In the process of development of the disorder, muscles often begin to harden, activity decreases when moving, the sensitivity of people to thermal effects and various pain sensations worsens.
One of the main features of the violation is the ability of a person to see and perceive information by ear, however, making it difficult to do this.
The patient's breathing and pulse may change, but other functions become so weakly identifiable that it often appears that the person has already died. And this condition can last from several minutes, to one or more days.
Methods of treatment
In the course of treatment of the disease, attention is paid to the features of development, the nature of the course of catalepsy. It should be taken into account that 
wax flexibility is similar to some types of motor disorders, manifested with some organic brain lesions. Often, such disorders progress in Parkinson's disease.
As an treatment technique, interactive imagagogics is used, which in its essence is a conscious work with the individual internal forces of the human body. In psychotherapeutic practice, such exercises are called imago-image.
The basic principle of using this technique is the possibility of visual perception of their sick organs, after which, on the basis of the picture obtained, a certain positive image that has a beneficial effect is transformed.
Complications and consequences of
One of the main complications is astral catalepsy. A similar state usually occurs at night. Such a state in most situations is explained by the impact on the human body of ghosts, extraterrestrial life forms.
Often the cause of this condition is real witchcraft. Experienced experts in the field of esotericism assure that such a state can be regulated by other people.
Regardless of the fact that physicians are in no hurry to recognize the existence of such a disorder, its manifestations may well indicate that the patient has had some kind of mental disturbance.
How to prevent "waxing"?
Let's enumerate the main methods of prevention of the cataleptic state:
- finger rings, - through the movements of the fingers show one of the rings on them;
- straightening of the toes;
- occupy a developed ecological position, characteristic for a person( hands to the sides, feet to put on the width of the shoulders);
- exercise for the mental alignment of some objects, lines or shapes;
- is an imitation of plants, various animals or natural phenomena.
Wax flexibility is considered quite an unpleasant and widespread mental disorder, which, fortunately, lends itself to effective treatment and prevention.
