Cataplexy: When emotions paralyze you
And not figuratively , either . Sometimes hoi polloi have found that certain emotions literally have their muscle to unhook from their encephalon . They collapse entirely . This is not some foreign disease , or helplessness — tt ’s the misapplication of a necessary function . The emotion and physical response occupy the same organic structure . They both flood the body with chemicals , so it do sense that they influence each other ....