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Old Jul 09, 2007, 03:32 AM
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Thanks for bringing up conversion disorder twirls. Read some about it and it really interests me, I've never heard of it before, though the symptoms also seem very similar to mine.

Reading about it on Wikipedia, I'm a bit confused on how best to deal with it. Though, I must admit my mind is a bit hazy and spinning right now and the insomnia and the feeling that my mind wont settle down sure doesn't help my thinking right now.

Since all treatments I've been under so far have not helped much, I've been trying to go by the process of elimination of causes and ways to deal with my symptoms. Kinda just taking a possible cause and making it into an axiom, and seeing what I can do to myself on my own to try to fix things. Though, after reading some on it I'm still confused as to what might best work for me if this were to be the issue.

On another note, I do get dizzy and faint if I stand up too fast but lying down when ill, doesn't seem to relieve any of the issues either so I'm uncertain on whether that is a possible cause, I will however try to remember to bring it up to the neurologist.

I have an appointment with a neurologist on Wednesday, and I have the feeling that conversion disorder is what will be told to me by the looks of it and the fact that nothing ever shows up on tests, but, I shouldn't jump to any conclusions right now.

Would you mind sharing some on maybe how your husband deals with conversion disorders symptoms? Is there anything that would best relieve the symptoms? Theres not much worse to me then when I go out to a public place, have an episode and just drop to the floor, I'm trapped and if I can't get up then end up going to the ER which I cant afford to do any more, much less bare the stress of not being able to even leave the house on my own without risk of collapsing and being sent to the ER or mental hospital, or having to be sent home in a police car... as in the past. I just want to be able to do things on my own and the shock of the more severe episodes lasts for days.

You can just reply to me through pm if you want but I'm just interested in what I could do if this were the issue.

I've never had any kind of severe emotional stress, besides maybe the long term effect from my parents divorcing, but to me, when I think about it, that doesn't seem to have bothered me much as I largely just ignored them and anything they said, when I was younger as they made no sense to me, and well still don't make much sense...
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