Amandalouise...so why is it called dissociative motor disorder if it is not classed with the other dissociative disorders?? it certainly is NOT facticious or a pain disorder i should know, i have been living with it for the past four years! i am the last person to be a hyperchondriac as before this started i had not visited the doctor for best part of 10 years and still put off going until i am really unwell and in need of antibiotics! i can't comment on somotization stuff as i don't know what that means. the last thing i wanted was to be like i am now, when this started i was three years into running a very successful pre-school childcare buisness which had always been my dream to do, now i can't even sit up without support let alone move my legs to walk and have lost all sphincter control in both bowel and bladder not to mention the past pointing, breathing difficulties cos my internal muscles are weakened, or the stomach trouble cos the muscles are not working right to move food down right! oh and not a headache in sight! yea this is definitely something i dreamed up in my head ...not!

please note the ICD table below clearly lists Dissociative motor disorder UNDER F44 where Somatoform disorders are classed under F45

F44.0 Dissociative amnesia
F44.1 Dissociative fugue
F44.2 Dissociative stupor
F44.3 Trance and possession disorders
F44.4 Dissociate motor disorders
F44.5 Dissociative convulsions
F44.6 Dissociative anaesthesia and sensory loss
F44.7 Mixed dissociative (conversion) disorders
F44.8 Other dissociative (conversion) disorders
.80 Ganser’s syndrome
.81 Multiple personality disorder (DID)
.82 Transient dissociative (conversion) disorders occurring in childhood and adolescence
.88 Other specified dissociative (conversion) disorders
F44.9 Dissociative (conversion) disorder, unspecified

F45 Somatoform disorders
F45.0 Somatisation disorder
F45.1 Undifferentiated somatoform disorder
F45.2 Hypochondrial disorders
F45.3 Somatoform autonomic dysfunction