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“Conversion disorder is a mental condition in which a person has blindness, paralysis, or other nervous system (neurological) symptoms that cannot be explained by medical evaluation.”

(MedLinePlus Conversion Disorder - https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000954.htm )

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Believed causes are psychological distress and conflict.  How the unresolved emotions and turned and presented as physical symptoms is unknown.

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“Although conversion disorder may appear at any time from early childhood up to old age, most patients experience their first symptoms during adolescence or early adult years. In most cases the actual onset of symptoms is abrupt and typically follows a major stress in the patient’s life.” (DSM 5 - https://www.brown.edu/Courses/BI_278/Other/Clerkship/Didactics/Readings/Conversion%20Disorder.pdf )

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How Conversion Disorder connects to my life, I have Conversion Disorder and mine causes paralysis, unexplained pain, and mostly seizures, which has occurred in mostly high stress and anxiety times of year or situations for me.

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Being diagnosed with other conditions and receiving wrong treatment, worsening condition.

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Sleep Deprived EKG, EEG, MRI, Blood work, Anxiety Screenings, and many other tests are used. Most commonly when doctors don’t know what to diagnose you with, they will tell you drink more water and double your salt intake because they assume POTS or heart failure.

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Family and Friends May think you're faking it or lying.

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It took me 3 years of many medical tests and 6 different diagnosis before I got an official diagnosis of Conversion Disorder and PNES.  Along with struggles with losing friends from fickleness and ignorance. From parents and people thinking and claiming I’m faking, to now ex boyfriend talking and texting other girls while I’m having grand mal seizures on a gurney in an ambulance and receiving extensive medical testing. Only to find out later and continue the severe stress and anxiety that was worsening my condition and negatively impacting my mental health further.

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PTSD, because all though doctors don’t know how or what causes the body to convert mental distress into physical symptoms, ptsd and trauma are believed to be triggers for Conversion Disorder.

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Anxiety and Depression disorders are associated with Conversion Disorder due to the mind and body looking for a way to “express” the bottled up emotions and poor mental state.

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PNES or psychogenic non epileptic seizures are non epileptic seizures thought to be induced by severe subconscious stress and anxiety, that believed to release the “emotions” in form of physical seizure like “episode”.

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Along with Conversion Disorder, I have PNES or psychogenic non epileptic seizures, ADD, and anxiety. All of these play into it but are managed with medication and therapy.

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Therapy for learning coping methods.

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Anxiety and Depression medications, NOT seizure medication.

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Knowing it’s behavioral not neurological.

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I’ve been to therapy before and I’m going to start it again. Along with taking medication to help manage my anxiety, and having the knowledge it’s behavioral and can be worked around.