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CONVERSION DISORDER - definition of CONVERSION DISORDER in the ...
disorder /dis·or·der/ (dis-or´der) a derangement or abnormality of function; a morbid physical or mental state. acute stress disorder an anxiety disorder ...
What is CONVERSION DISORDER? | Apacuy
A person with Conversion disorder has neurological symptoms that aren't related to any known neurological condition, according to the American Psychiatric A.
Taking the 'mystery' out of CONVERSION DISORDER – - CNN.com Blogs
When 12 students at a high school in New York suddenly developed strange symptoms like stuttering, uncontrollable twitching movements and verbal outbursts, the community was concerned.
What can family do to help with CONVERSION DISORDER?
Blindness, weakness, slurred speach. HELP
Answer: Are you sure its a Conversion disorder? Have ALL physical reasons been eliminated? Has the person been diagnosed by an Internist and a Psychiatrist? The above mentioned symptoms are also signs of a Stroke.
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N.Y. teens' mass hysteria labeled 'CONVERSION DISORDER' - USATODAY ...
Jan 18, 2012 ... Even mental health professionals say they've read about it in textbooks rather than seen it up close.
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CONVERSION DISORDER in Emergency Medicine
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Can someone provide me with information on Psychosomatic CONVERSION DISORDER?
A member of my family has just been diagnosed with and I would like to do some reading on it, yet I cant find much. Thanks.
Answer: It is a psychiatric disorder where a patient presents symptoms (usually neurological, like weakness, numbness, paralysis) where no physical cause can be found. Often it's the result of psychogenic trauma or crisis.
Google "Conversion disorder" and you'll have better luck finding info. Wikapedia has a decent article on it.
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CONVERSION DISORDER and Mass Hysteria
Recently there has been a great deal of coverage of 12 unfortunate teenage girls from the small community of Le Roy, N.Y. These teenagers had all around the same time inexplicably begun to exhibit many of the signs of Tourettes Syndrome. They stuttered ...
CONVERSION DISORDER: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
Conversion disorder is a condition in which a person has blindness, paralysis, or other nervous system (neurologic) symptoms that cannot be explained by ...
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CONVERSION DISORDER - MayoClinic.com
Conversion disorder — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment of this psychological condition.
Why is CONVERSION DISORDER important to know?
What do you know about it?
Answer: It's important to know about because the symptoms may be mistaken for medical issues when they aren't.
It's one of the somatoform disorders. The somatoform disorders represent physical expression of emotional problems. The real cause is psychological, not physical.
Conversion disorder specifically affects the areas of motor and sensory function that are ordinarily under voluntary control.
Examples of Conversion disorder symptoms include, but are not limited to:
difficulty urinating
poor balance
double vision
problems swallowing
numbness in the extremities
paralysis
seizures
inability to speak
diarrhea
hearing problems
Category: Mental Health
Medicine :: Anyone experienced CONVERSION DISORDER or had a patient or know someone who had suffered it ?
For those who dont know what it is, you dont need to answer the question, but for your info, it is "Physical symptoms such as blindness, seizures or paralysis resulting from stressful situations" or in other words "psychological stress manifesting through physical symptoms"
A recent case in Australia was of a training soldier who lost his eyesight and they could find no other explanation but Conversion disorder !
Answer: I believe ignoramus is describing a hypochondriac. Not a Conversion disorder.
I was put through a battery of tests a few years ago for neurological disorders such as ms and parkinsons, because I kept getting a tingeling feeling in my arms and legs shortly followed by numbness and then temporary paralysis. This was happening a few times a week with no logical explanation. Eventually the doctors came to the conclusion that stress was causing somehow for my blood oxygen to go to my head and deprive my limbs temporarily. "this feeling can be partially simulated by intentional hyperventalation, though it is not exactly the same.
Category: Medicine
Can anyone explain how hysterical blindness / CONVERSION DISORDER works?
I was wondering if someone could explain to me how hysterical blindness, also referred to as Conversion disorder, works, specifically in terms of blindness? From what I gather the condition is largely mental, but I dont understand how the mental issue can create blindness.
Answer: Conversion disorder is poorly understood, so it makes it difficult to answer your question. what we know about Conversion disorder is that very stressful events (ie life threatening occurrences, sexual/physical/mental abuse) can be so severe that the mind does not know how to process them. Often, the event is so severe that the mind blocks it from the person's memory so it cannot be relived. When this happens, the mind will express the conflict as a physical symptoms (weakness, problems speaking, seeing, hearing, even seizures). doctors often diagnosis Conversion disorder when a person's problem (weakness, blindness, etc) does not fit anatomically or they fail certain exam techniques (ie the "blind" person cannot stop the blink reflex when an object approaches because the connections are still present in the brain).
Category: Other - Diseases
Le Roy girls said to have CONVERSION DISORDER
Its a term used so rarely that most of us havent heard of it. Even mental health professionals say they have read about it in textbooks rather than seen it up close. But the mysterious symptoms of facial tics and verbal outbursts afflicting 12 ...
CONVERSION DISORDER: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
Symptoms, treatment and prevention (article in a medical encyclopedia).
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What is CONVERSION DISORDER? | Noryanna
A person with Conversion disorder has neurological symptoms that aren't related to any known neurological condition, according to the American Psychiatric A.
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I have a CONVERSION DISORDER any help with ways to stop symptoms?
I have tried see a psychiatrist for thearpy and have been on a number of meds: celaxa, diazipam, fexiril, adivan and propanalol. I have been to three nerologist and a neropsycholigist. I have now had this condition for over seven years and am unable to work because of it. I am also in pain for most of my day and pain meds are starting not to work at all. Any help you be nice. Please no awsners just to get points this is very important to me.
Answer: ill try to help out since no one has answered you yet, but i dont know how succesful i will be. One of my family members has a similair dissorder and it has no cure and if your doctor knows that your pain is worsening and is not diong anything about it, then you might want to switch doctors, even though this may be difficult. the depression is hard to treat and i am not sure how to help you with that. but for the pain, ask your doctor about biofeedback. it sounds kinda crazy and insane and weird and tahts what i thought. but it actually helps with intense pain situations. its basically a breathing technique and has no medication involved. for some people it doesnt work at all , but others it has amazing results. with my family member pain meds don't always work, especially when it gets to be night time and they can't sleep. i hope that your doctors are able to help you with the pain and im sorry that it is getting worse. i wish you the best of luck and i hope i at least helped a little bit.
Category: Mental Health
conversion reaction: Definition from Answers.com
Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary n. A psychopathological condition characterized by the presence of bodily symptoms having no discernible physical cause ...
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Conversion disorder IS a legitimate diagnosis, I am intrigued and bothered by this LeRoy "mystery illness" case. What's really eating at me is the dismissal by some of the "Conversion disorder" diagnosis. And I'm not saying ...
What factors tend to be associated with the onset of CONVERSION DISORDER?
Answer: Conversion disorder, the usual age at onset is in adolescence or early adulthood. However, the syn toms can appear during middle age or even older but are more rare. The most obvious and classic symptoms are those that suggest neurologic disease, such as paralysis, seizures, coordination of the body and a host of other abnormal physical symptoms to include but not limited to blindness or tunnel vision. I am not a psychologist or mental health expert but as I understand it there is a psychological need that triggers a Conversion disorder. A Conversion disorder as I understand the physical symptom is real it is not a disillusion to them. I can only give you one example with a paralyzed hand a soldier can avoid firing a gun thus he may not be exposed to combat. Combat is his fear. The paralysis is real to the soldier. Again I'm not a mental health expert in this field. For a professional answer one of those is required
Category: Mental Health
12 Teens Who Suddenly Developed Involuntary Tics Get Diagnosis ...
Jan 23, 2012 ... 12 girls at an upstate NY high school simultaneously develop Tourette's-like tics and verbal outbursts. The diagnosis? Conversion disorder ...
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Mass hysteria is rare, but cases often involve teen girls
The conclusion by experts is that these are just the latest examples of what used to be called mass hysteria. Now known as Conversion disorder, sufferers experience real, but psychologically triggered symptoms. Its rare, but hundreds of outbreaks have ...
CONVERSION DISORDERs - Diseases & Conditions - Medscape Reference
Conversion disorder, as stated in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR), involves symptoms or deficits ...
CONVERSION DISORDER - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conversion disorder is a neurosis marked by the appearance of physical symptoms such as partial loss of muscle function without physical cause but in the presence of ...
Taking the mystery out of CONVERSION DISORDER
When 12 students at a high school in New York suddenly developed strange symptoms like stuttering, uncontrollable twitching movements and verbal outbursts, the community was concerned. Was there something in the environment? Was it a virus of ...
School District Holding Community Meeting to Discuss Illnesses
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- We are hearing today that the doctor treating some students from LeRoy High School with Conversion disorder, is treating four new cases in the past two days, three of which he confirms are Conversion disorder. Dr. Laszlo Mechtler made the ...
Shaken
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CONVERSION DISORDER - Psychology Wiki
Conversion disorder is a DSM-IV diagnosis which describes neurological symptoms such as extreme weak
CONVERSION DISORDER - MayoClinic.com - Mayo Clinic
Conversion disorder — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment of this psychological condition.
CONVERSION DISORDER?
I believe that my mom has Conversion disorder, but im not sure how to let the doctor know since they think they are always right. Over the last 3 years my mom has been in atleast 8 different hospitals and has had all the same tests ran and they are all negative. one hospital did say she was having psychogenic seiziure but not the one she is currently in.
im looking for any help on this subject.
Answer: If a doctor says somebody has Psychogenic Seizures (or psychogenic blindness, pain or whatever) is really the same thing as saying someone has Conversion disorder.
The billing code is the same. (I work in medical records).
So, one of her doctors already said she has Conversion disorder. The new doctor may have seen the records from the other hospital anyway.
I have worked in mental health since 1987 and I have only heard of our clients having a diagnosis of Conversion disorder maybe four times. And three out of four of them were later diagnosed with a confirmed physical condition.
For example, we recently got a new client (teenaged boy) who was diagnosed with psychogenic seizures/Conversion disorder some years ago. But years later his seizures were confirmed by testing and now he has a diagnosis of Epilepsy.
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How would one come to the diagnosis of CONVERSION DISORDER?
Say one has the sudden and unexplained symptom of blindness. Would they first go to the doctor, who would send them to a neurologist, who sends them to a psychiatrist? How would it work? And how would they cancel out any other illnesses?
Answer: through testing and experience
Category: Mental Health
I need your help with my CONVERSION DISORDER?
Ive had a Conversion disorder for five years. Doctors have told me I can grow out of it but that hasnt happened. I have tried everything to stop my seizures. I have tried therapy, acupuncture and medications. Nothing seems to work. I am getting so frustrated. Im having one seizure a week. I feel alone and nobody understands what Im going through. My question is what works for you all?
Answer: Don't bother with "natural cures." They will likely deliver side effects worse than your chief complaint.
Instead, focus on positive thinking. Watch the documentary called _The Secret_ (2006).
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What is the prevalence of CONVERSION DISORDER?
How common do people get Conversion disorder?
Answer: Conversion disorders are quite rare, and effect at most 5 in every 1000 people.
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what are the complications of psychological CONVERSION DISORDER syndrome?
My sister has Conversion disorder syndrome, she already experienced Seizures and fainting like, also she sleeps more than normal (more than 15 hours a day), her heart seizures ( beat very fast)....Any help? she has depression but I know that she will be much worse in the future because her problems will not be solved soon
Answer: Well, Conversion disorder in itself is a sort of complication of stress.
Her treatment will likely be a process of treating her underlying depression to get rid of the stress that is causing her to have the Conversion disorder...if that makes any sense.
The good news is that Conversion disorder symptoms are usually temporary, and go away on their own.
I've had Conversion disorder for about two years now. I developed it due to the psychological stress of my movement disorder.
For me, it went away when I learned what it was. I still get bouts of symptoms now and again, but they only last a few minutes.
Conversion disorder is a pretty mysterious condition, and few studies have been done on treatment.
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How are the symptoms of CONVERSION DISORDER treated?
For example, if they say they are blind, how is that treated medically if there is no organic cause?
Or if they have paralysis in one arm, would they get treated or just sent home? Is it possible that the arm is not really paralized, that you might see them move it?
Answer: For blindness I would probably first refer the patient to a neuro-ophthalmologist; for a paralyzed arm, a neurologist. If their evaluation determined no organic causation, I would ask about stress and conflict in the patient's life. Denial is a potent defense mechanism, so I almost always needed the help of a psychiatrist.
Had a difficult patient with a paralyzed arm that proved to be reflex sympathetic dystrophy. I understand there are new diagnostic and therapeutic modalities for this condition, but I am not conversant with them.
Edit: if a patient moves (or sees) when no one is looking, that is malingering, not Conversion disorder.
Category: Medicine
How can I cope with my CONVERSION DISORDER?
I am medicated, and it helps but I need some more tips on how do deal with all of this
Answer: seeing a therapist ofr counselling would probably help too
Category: Mental Health
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CONVERSION DISORDER????
My neurologist just diagnosed me with Conversion disorder. In Conversion disorder, physical symptoms that are caused by psychologic conflict are unconsciously converted to resemble those of a neurologic disorder.
I have so many physical symptoms. All my symptoms come and go. My left hand has paralysis (on and off), I have tingling in my hands and feet, my head and neck roll in a dystonia way, my hands and feet curl in, twitch and shake.
Theyve done tons of testing, including MRIs and everything comes out normal. I did have a childhood Trauma but its hard to believe that my mind would be exerting it self this way, but I guess that its possible. He recommended that I see a Neuropsychiatrist who would work with hypnosis to help the situation.
Answer: The effects of childhood trauma manifest in many, many ways. Seeing a neuropsych is an excellent idea. Whether s/he uses hypnosis or some other therapeutic technique is up for grabs. Different modes of therapy work for different people.
The neuropsych is preferable to a psychologist because it's sort of like a second opinion on the neuro's findings. Depending on how that goes, you may ultimately want another opinion. But for now, since all the tests came up negative, Conversion disorder is a reasonable assumption.
Good luck!
Category: Mental Health
Can anyone tell me about CONVERSION DISORDER?
20 year old athletic college female has headaches, dizziness and fainting episodes. Many tests taken; all negative, altho these symptoms started after she had a concussion a year ago. Her last fainting episode was 20 min. long.
Answer: Conversion disorder is a psychosomatic condition where the patient displays signs and symptoms that are not of medical origin. There is usually some percipitating event...often something traumatic were the body learns to cope by displaying somatic complaints (complaints of real physical symptoms). This should not be confused with someone who is malingering (faking) because the person with Conversion disorder experiences these symptoms as very real events. It is not under conscious control, but does require psychological intervention.
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Teens Mystery Illness Labeled CONVERSION DISORDER
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CONVERSION DISORDER in Emergency Medicine
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CONVERSION DISORDER - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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12 Teens Who Suddenly Developed Involuntary Tics Get Diagnosis: CONVERSION DISORDER
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LE ROY: State Department of Health report rules out infectious and environmental health concerns
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Neurologists Weigh in on Tourettes-Like Mystery Illness
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Progress in understanding CONVERSION DISORDER
Conversion disorder has a history that may reach back into antiquity, and it continues to present a clinical challenge to both psychiatrists and neurologists.
Mysterious Illness at Le Roy School: Understanding CONVERSION DISORDERs
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CONVERSION DISORDER rare in U.S., usually seen in girls
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