What is conversion disorder?
Individually, they suffer from conversion disorder, and collectively, they suffer from mass psychogenic illness, also commonly referred to as mass hysteria. No amount of media coverage or speculation these past few weeks has changed that diagnosis.
By Sharon Jayson Conversion disorder is characterized by problems with motor or sensory function that suggest a neurological condition, but have no biological cause. For twelve teenage girls in a small New York community with the condition,
They stuttered, jerked and flailed with signs suggesting some severe neurological disorder. However, the girls were evaluated by a neurologist who diagnosed them as suffering what is known as "conversion disorder." Conversion disorder is a psychiatric,
Individually, they suffer from conversion disorder, and collectively, they suffer from mass psychogenic illness, also commonly referred to as mass hysteria. No amount of media coverage or speculation these past few weeks has changed that diagnosis.
A person with conversion disorder has neurological symptoms that aren't related to any known neurological condition, according to the American Psychiatric A.
