Chuck's symptoms characterize catatonia. Catatonic schizophrenia involves bodily symptoms-stiffness or excessive motor activity and taking of unusual body positions. Person with catatonia can, for example, to stand on one leg for hours without moving, which is to a normal person impossible.
C. The gate-control theory. The gate control theory of pain states that non-painful inputs closes the nerve gates to painful input, which prevents pain sensation from traveling to the central nervous system.
The person who made such comments usually had a a really strong preference in one economic system, to the point where that person refuse to acknoweldge the weakness in their preferred view and the strength in the opposing view. This bias could easily be held by all sides.
