A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry.
The young woman was catatonic, stuck at the nurses’ station – unmoving, unblinking and unknowing of where or who she was. Her name was April Burrell. Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. Before she became a patient, April had been an outgoing, straight-A student …
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