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Originally Posted by Gently1
I was having a massage treatment, and during the session I felt the right side of my body was sad. I was not sad. I just noticed what the body felt. It was not what I would call 'me' that was sad.
Specifically my right upper abdomen and neck, face and head.
It all was very real.
I am currently in partial remission of depression. For me this means that I am starting to feel like myself, but continue with extreme fatigue. The last few weeks I have been starting to feel a flare-up of depression thinking and moods.
Is this important to bring up to my Pdoc? or T? I am worried now, yet I was not worried at the time that I felt this distinction between me and the body.
Any ideas on what this means?
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Here where I live and work this happening is called a "conversion symptom". Conversion symptoms are when a persons mental illness shows itself in the physical body.
example sometimes my anxiety disorder shows in two different ways the mental side of constant worrying and the physical side of muscles not relaxed, muscles twitches, the physical need to keep moving, fidgeting, restlessness.
every physical and mental problem can cross over into breaking up the symptoms into mental or physical or both kinds of symptoms.
with my depression the mental side is feeling sadness/ hopelessness sometimes suicidal. the sadness part feels like a heaviness, and tired, sometimes crying. when my depression symptoms cross over into being conversion symptoms my legs feel the sadness symptoms of heaviness and tired don't want to move type symptoms.
is this something that is important to bring up to your pdoc... only you can answer that question because only you know what you need to address with your pdoc..
for me I do let my treatment providers know when my depression is showing conversion symptoms because sometimes the fix is as easy as a change of medications, or medication adjustments.