# I need a word \[for being "out of it"\]!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 7, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196 "2018-03-07T19:03:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@DekaJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DekaJay)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/1 "2018-03-07T19:03:22Z")
I was wondering if there was a medical term for “out of it” because I went through a traumatic point in my life and for like the next three days I did nothing but sit in a room and stared at the wall. I can’t remember what I was thinking and I almost died because I couldn’t move. All I can think of was “out of it”. I know depressed calls out, but I’m almost sure that there’s a better word for it. I wasn’t exactly depressed and I wasnt lazy. Could “fucked up” help?
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/2 "2018-03-07T19:07:18Z")
Cataleptic? Enervated? In a deep funk?
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/3 "2018-03-07T19:08:12Z")
Psychosis?
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> a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/4 "2018-03-07T19:09:13Z")
Fugue?
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/5 "2018-03-07T19:09:38Z")
Catatonic? Gooned?
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/6 "2018-03-07T19:18:15Z")
Uh, Crazy, (as in batshit, out of your gourd, off your bean, mush for brains, insane!)
Seriously though, ‘non-responsive’ is my answer
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/7 "2018-03-07T19:29:35Z")
Lots of words for someone being out of it. Catatonic, in a stupor, (potentially) delirium.
But if you went through a trauma, how about in shock?
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/8 "2018-03-07T22:17:13Z")
[Nervous breakdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_breakdown)? Note that such an event has symptoms such as a fugue state or disassociation, but they don’t describe the event itself.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/9 "2018-03-07T22:20:02Z")
Title edited to better indicate subject.
Colibri
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### Author:  [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/10 "2018-03-07T22:39:53Z")
dazed
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/11 "2018-03-07T23:04:04Z")
[Fugue state.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue_state)
Or, less seriously, verklempt.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/12 "2018-03-07T23:04:21Z")
You know that axiom "A rose by any other name is still a rose "? If you experienced a trauma, you were ‘traumatized’. Plain and simple.
Many symptoms are attributed to trauma.
And then there is PTSD.
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### Author:  [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/13 "2018-03-07T23:06:46Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#):
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> dazed
No, you’re confused. It’s encephalitis. Or catatonic schizophrenia? Depression with catatonic features? (my guess)
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### Author:  [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/14 "2018-03-07T23:16:41Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#):
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> No, you’re confused. It’s encephalitis. Or catatonic schizophrenia? Depression with catatonic features? (my guess)
For so long? It’s not true.
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### Author:  [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/15 "2018-03-07T23:27:43Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#):
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> For so long? It’s not true.
Hey, Im just throwing shit at the wall.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/16 "2018-03-08T00:01:30Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#):
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> Hey, Im just throwing shit at the wall.
I hate when my patients do that.
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### Author:  [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/17 "2018-03-08T00:05:15Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> I hate when my patients do that.
The zoo is probably a more calm place to work than the prison tho, amirite? Are veterinarians still docs tho?
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/18 "2018-03-08T00:34:37Z")
Lil’wrekker says the OP was ‘dis-associated’.
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### Author:  [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/19 "2018-03-08T04:34:26Z")
A useful Australian term is to ‘Go troppo’, inspired by linen jacketed colonials slowly going loopy over G&T in their rubber plantations.
Or you could borrow Alan Partridge’s description of when he was ‘clinically fed up’ for two years, drove to Dundee in his bare feet, eating Toblerone.
Obviously you went through a horrible episode, and the wealth of vague and mean-spirited terms that we can offer reflects on the very poor understanding or empathy our society has about mental health issues generally. If you had asked about your bank account or car trouble we would have very precise terminology and exact diagnoses.
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### Author:  [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-word-for-being-out-of-it/810196/20 "2018-03-08T07:22:20Z")
Some of the terms already suggested have very specific meanings that don’t match the situation. (Fugue, for example - you can look it up if interested.)
I think there might not be a single perfect word for what happened with you, OP. A professional might come up with a word that more or less satisfies them - but the next professional might come up with a different word. 🙂
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