Posted by baseball55 on January 28, 2014, at 20:28:13
In reply to Re: My friend and conversion disorder, posted by jono_in_adelaide on January 28, 2014, at 4:17:25
The sad thing about psychiatric/psychological treatment is that you have to admit you have a problem and want to change. If you don't feel that, then all the therapy in the world will not help you.
I had a psychosomatic pain that lasted for several months. I had test after test. Some doctors I saw cautiously suggested I might want to see a therapist, but I became indignant at the suggestion. And, if I had seen a therapist, I would have lied about my past and not even have thought of it as lying. I didn't acknowledge it. It was past. Had nothing to do with me. The past me was another person. I didn't talk about it and didn't think of it as something relevant to the present.
What eventually got me into treatment (five years later), is that my primary care prescribed opiates for the pain and I became a complete addict. When I detoxed, I fell apart. The psychiatrist I saw asked me -- what if you had seen someone at the beginning? I mean any psychiatrist, when they heard your story, would think something was wrong. And I replied -- if I had seen a therapist, and I would never willingly have done that, I would not have told them my story. It was none of their business and had nothing to do with what was going on.
That's the problem with conversion disorder. Your friend is still externalizing his emotional problems, hasn't felt them or owned them yet. The only solution is for the neurologists he keeps contacting to read his records and refuse to treat or test him.
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