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Tics and Toxins: The Crazy History of Conversion Disorder by Kim S. Patient Expert

Posted Sun 01 Apr 2012 12:00am By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill If you want to know what’s wrong with the diagnoses of “conversion disorder” and “mass psychogenic illness” recently given to high school girls with tic disorders in New York State, the place to start is not the rural villages of LeRoy and Corinth but the cosmopolitan metropolis of Vienna, Austr ... Read on »

Tics and Toxins: The Beast, the Wrestler, and the Trouble With Conversion Disorder by Kim S. Patient Expert

Posted Mon 01 Oct 2012 12:00am By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill CORINTH, New York -- Lori Brownell’s teammates nicknamed her the Beast. She threw herself into every play last year on the girls’ softball team at Corinth High School, north of Albany. A star pitcher and all-around player, she dove for the ball and slid into base with bruising abandon – and has ... Read on »

Conversion disorder not about mould by Rossa Forbes Posted Fri 20 Jan 2012 12:00am Le Roy, New York (CNN) -- Twelve female students from Le Roy Junior Senior High School in upstate New York are experiencing a mysterious medical condition. Their symptoms include stuttering, uncontrollable twitching movements and verbal outbursts. Health officials say the symptoms are consistent with "conversion disorder." Dr. Jennife ... Read on »

Schizophrenia, conversion disorder, stress and immigration by Rossa Forbes Posted Thu 08 Mar 2012 12:00am Year ago, when Taylor, my youngest son, was in third grade, he had a friend "Jeremy" (not his real name). Like us, Jeremy and his family had relocated from North America to Europe that year, where the father was employed in high tech. Jeremy was an only child. His mother told me that when they were in the final stages of moving, Jeremy woke up o ... Read on »

Conversion Disorder in Leroy NY? by Kim S. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 01 Feb 2012 12:00am By Teresa Conrick I have been following all of the news and reports on the teens and now two adults who have developed sudden onset tics and Tourette-like symptoms in upper NY. It is an unanswered medical phenomenon still and one that is devastating. One thing that seems certain -- the issue of Conversion Disorder vs Immune ... Read on »

If conversion disorder makes sense, so does schizophrenia by Rossa Forbes Posted Mon 06 Feb 2012 12:00am Gianna Kali at Beyond Meds highlighted in her post today this quote from R.D. Laing. The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. No ... Read on »

A Conversation with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder by Untypically Jia Posted Wed 12 Sep 2012 9:48pm It's hard to explain to others about OCD when you don't have the type of OCD they've seen on television or in the movies. While I can't say it's easier for others, I imagine it would be easier for me to say, "I wash my hands thirty times because I'm afraid of germs." But when you have different types of OCD, it's harder to explain. So I though ... Read on »

Solutions for Eating Disorders: A Helpful Conversation With Carolyn Costin by Tera W. Patient Expert

Posted Thu 19 Apr 2012 6:20pm Raw Food Recipes Raw Food Health Green Smoothies Tera Tidbits Success Stories Natural Beauty Care Uncategorized Podcasts Raw Food for Families WISH Summit 3 Weight Loss Secrets Jenny Craig & Weight Watchers Don't Want You To Know H ... Read on »

Reality Settles Even Deeper ~ Dissociative Disorder NOS by Clueless C. Health Maven

Posted Mon 29 Sep 2008 11:55pm Although the following video is about children, I think it gives a good description of how dissociative disorders develop which if left untreated continue into adulthood creating significant problems with daily living. (Plus, it was the only decent one I could find.) First of all "dissociation is a mental process that c ... Read on »

Comparing Factitious Disorders with Malingering by Kent Brooks Facebook

Posted Tue 31 Aug 2010 12:00am The manifestations of factitious disorder are limited only by human motivation and creativity. To illustrate this position I would guide the reader to a case study conducted in which a 19 year old female presented to an otolaryngology clinic complaining of bleeding from the mouth, nose, ears, and eyes. Ultimately Yanik, San, and ... Read on »