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When you are conscious but unable to move

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Locked-in syndrome is a deeply tragic neurological condition where massive brainstem damage completely paralyzes absolutely every single voluntary muscle in your entire physical body. The patient remains entirely conscious, heavily awake, and perfectly capable of feeling horrific pain, but can only frantically communicate by desperately blinking their completely terrified eyes.

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