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Originally Posted by yellowted
[all my post said was letting you know that here ....in america...we dont call it dissociative motor disorder. ..here in america we call it conversion disorder and here in america it isnt listed as a dissociative disorder in the dsm.
may be so but that is the same response i always get on this site, never any help or suggestions or anything, just that it is not called that in america, well america is not the only place on this plannet, does it never occur to look at how long someone has been a member and think that they probably already know the obvious and also the person who asked the question may not have been from america in the first place so may actually have came from somewhere which does classify other specific dissociative disorders and may actually be interested nin knowing about those too!
my reason for posting that wasnt to cause you problems.
it probably wasn't, but it did, i have been fighting this for four years totally on my own because eventhough it is classified over here it is still not recognised so is not given the help it needs, so people with it are left seing and knowing the help they need but without the means of getting it as treatments here are dx specific and as it is such a rare condition which most doctors do not understand or even know about there is very little help/treatment available e.g dmd people benefit from the same therapies as those who had a stroke, but are not allowed in the stroke units, I can't stand let alone walk, my mate with arthritis can still walk a few steps, he got an electric wheelchair and his house adapted and paid for in three months from dx, i am 4 years from dx and still have not had my house adapted in fact i have to pay over 10K to get it done and 'don't fit the criteria' for an electric wheelchair so had to buy my own scooter or be housebound.
so you can see why i bit when once again someone stated the american way, i am just fed up hearing what you said about it because i get similar every day here where it is classified. it certainly is not a hyperchondria, it is a proper disorder and i just want people to see that.
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I understand where you are coming from and I did not mean that it was hyperchondria. see here hyperchondria has a situation where a persons mental issues get converted into physical motor problems. thats why it is grouped with the group title "somatoform disorders" here. it doesnt mean every disorder in the somatoform disorders are fake or made up. somotoform is a term that means physical sensations, physical feelings, physical momvement problems. my Multiple Sclerosis is a somatoform disorder in some USA states because it has a mental component that sometimes can convert to physical sensations, physical feelings...it being grouped in the somatic type disorders like hypochondria doesnt make it less real less important, its just grouped that way because of some of the symptoms.
I know part of the problem is that the DSM categorizes things one way and the ICD that other countries uses is different.
one reason I tell others what their disorder is called here in america is so that they have another term to use when looking for help..
example now that you know that other locations call your mental disorder "conversion disorder" you can do a psych central search to find others like you by searching under both your term dissociative motor disorder and other countries term conversion disorder.
instead of having only one way (dissociative motor disorder) to find the help you are looking for you now have two ways. (dissociative motor disorder ...and....conversion disorder)