Posted by jono_in_adelaide on January 12, 2014, at 4:18:43
I have an old school friend who has never been quite normal, even as kids he was something of a hypochondriac, and since we left school in 1988, he has been in paid employment for about a months, always having some physical ailment that has prevented him from working.
In the last 2 years it has gotten worse, he has developed bizarre neurological symptoms which have suggested MS, myasthenia gravitas and a heap of other diseases, and atm, he is having his wife push him around in a wheel chair, and speaks like he is mentally retarded.
Thing is, he has seen 5 neurologists, including the professor of neurology at our main university medical school, had CT, MRI and PET scans and every imaginable test, and none of them can find anything wrong with him physically. (Its actually rather like the prodromal phase of the girls illness in The Exorcist!)
None of tem have suggested conversion hysteria (although they have all suggested that he needs psychiatric treatment), but I'm wondering whether I should suggest it to his wife (who is an RN)
He seems to have taken every antidepressant and anxiolytic drug on the market over the years, and none have gotten him better
Any thoughts?
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