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minus-squareTachyonTele@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-212 days agoPoisoning your cat so it’s in a coma before it dies is not where the word catatonic comes from. Catatonic syndrome was a diagnosis first used by a German psychiatrist in the 1800’s. Before that it was described by ancient Greeks. It’s a category (also a word that has nothing to do with cats) of major depression and schizophrenia.
minus-squareVerat@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoScruffing a cat poisons it into a coma?
minus-squareTachyonTele@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoThat’s what the conversation was initially about. My mistake. The rest of my comment stands.
Poisoning your cat so it’s in a coma before it dies is not where the word catatonic comes from.
Catatonic syndrome was a diagnosis first used by a German psychiatrist in the 1800’s. Before that it was described by ancient Greeks.
It’s a category (also a word that has nothing to do with cats) of major depression and schizophrenia.
Scruffing a cat poisons it into a coma?
That’s what the conversation was initially about. My mistake.
The rest of my comment stands.