https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc Health Final Project en-us 2019-06-04 23:22:15 UTC 2025-04-19 17:09:29 UTC hello@padlet.com 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365719429 “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 )

]]> 2019-06-04 23:28:54 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365719429 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365719636 Believed causes are psychological distress and conflict.  How the unresolved emotions and turned and presented as physical symptoms is unknown.]]> 2019-06-04 23:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365719636 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365719837 “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 )

]]> 2019-06-04 23:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365719837 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365719924 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.]]> 2019-06-04 23:33:25 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365719924 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365720254 Being diagnosed with other conditions and receiving wrong treatment, worsening condition. ]]> 2019-06-04 23:36:50 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365720254 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365720420 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. ]]> 2019-06-04 23:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365720420 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365720498 Family and Friends May think you're faking it or lying.]]> 2019-06-04 23:38:59 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365720498 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365720631 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.]]> 2019-06-04 23:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365720631 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365720797 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.]]> 2019-06-04 23:41:40 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365720797 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365720928 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.]]> 2019-06-04 23:42:40 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365720928 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365720987 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”.]]> 2019-06-04 23:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365720987 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365721178 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.]]> 2019-06-04 23:44:36 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365721178 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365724863 Therapy for learning coping methods.]]> 2019-06-05 00:11:55 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365724863 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365724933 Anxiety and Depression medications, NOT seizure medication.]]> 2019-06-05 00:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365724933 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365725037 Knowing it’s behavioral not neurological.]]> 2019-06-05 00:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365725037 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365726001 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.]]> 2019-06-05 00:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365726001 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365727411 2019-06-05 00:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365727411 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365727647 2019-06-05 00:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365727647 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365727855 2019-06-05 00:33:58 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365727855 188732 https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365733750 2019-06-05 01:24:05 UTC https://padlet.com/188732/hkuz6rhbnjfc/wish/365733750