Conversion disorder

Symptoms usually begin suddenly after a stressful experience. There are danger of switching to obstacles if there are also the following conditions.

Personality disorder (can not control anticipated emotions and behaviors in specific social situations)

People with conversion disorder will not compensate for their symptoms (prediction). Some health care providers mistakenly believe that the disease is not a real illness and may tell people that the problem is entirely in their minds. But this situation is true. It could lead to distress and not open and close freely

Physical symptoms are thought to try to solve conflicts that people feel inside. For example, a woman who feels that violence is unacceptable suddenly becomes paralyzed after being angry and may wish to attack someone. She did not make herself violent thinking about striking people, but she experienced somatic symptoms of numbness in her arms.

Physical or occupational therapy may be required for affected body parts or physical functions until symptoms disappear. For example, you must stretch your arms to keep your muscles strong.

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Psychiatric disorders, often accompanied by conversion disorders, include somatization and depression, anxiety and personality (particularly dramatic) disorders. It is not unusual for some patients with degenerative disorders to have several potential neuropathologies (such as epileptic disorders). In that case, their conversion symptoms will be elucidated. Switching obstacles are often self limiting in most patients. 90 to 100% of the symptoms will be resolved within a few days to within a month. Many people have never experienced another episode, but up to 25% of people experience other episodes during the stress period. A better prognosis is associated with a sudden onset, a definite stress factor, a good morbid pre-function, a lack of complex psychiatric disorder, and a lack of disease-related procedures. The longer the conversion symptoms, the worse the prognosis.

Symptoms of conversion disorders may be temporary or long-term. The clinical signs of conversion disorders are common, but the prevalence of illness is unknown. Conversion barriers are more common between women than men by two to three times. The new diagnostic rate of sustained transitory symptoms is about 2 to 5 people per 100,000 people per year. Conversion disorders have various symptoms and symptoms. Symptoms of sports include abnormal movements such as weakness, paralysis, tremor and walking difficulties. From time to time, people experience sensory symptoms such as changes, loss or absence of skin sensation, visual or auditory sensation. Deformity disorders may also take the form of "cardiogenic" or "non-epileptic" seizures, including limb sloshing and unconsciousness but not including electrical activity occurring in the brain during a stroke.