in answer to questions, that she did not speak
because she was not sure whether it would be right, again
because she seemed to lose her speech. She did not move
because she was tired, had a numb feeling. She said she
had not been sad, "but I had different thoughts," "saw
shadows on the walls of animals, living people and dead
people." She was not frightened, "I just looked at them."
People moved so quickly that she thought everything was
moved by electricity. She thought her head had been all
right.

After a few days she relapsed into a duller state again,
but then got quite free and natural in her behavior. On
August 28 she gave a _retrospective_ account of her
psychosis, a part of which has been embodied in the
history. She had insight in so far as she knew she had been
mentally ill. She claimed to remember the Observation
Pavilion and her coming to the hospital, also the incidents
during the manic state, when she heard cannon and thought a
war was on, and voices she could not recognize nor
understand. Then she became stupid, although neither sad
nor happy.

Then, she claimed, she got stupid, but neither sad nor
happy. She claimed to have known all along where she was,
but felt mixed up at times, her thoughts wandered and she
felt confused about the people. She thought she was in
everybody's way, thought others wanted to get ahead of her,
did not speak because she did not know if it were right or
wrong, felt she might cause disturbance if she answered.
(It is not clear whether she had complete insight into the
morbid nature of these statements.) She also claimed again
that all along she "saw shadows on the wall," "scenes from
Heaven and Earth," "shadows of dead friends laid out for
burial." She had insight into the hallucinatory nature of
these visions. Sometimes she thought she was dead also. She
claimed that she began to feel better when these shadows
stopped appearing in June (the actual time of her
improvement).

She was discharged recovered a month later, after having
been sent to another ward.

In this case, then, we find that the two months of stupor were ushered
in by a brief state in which, in addition to the usual inactivity, there
was a certain bewilderment, increased by que