They were right! It is all in my head!

After much soul searching I have found out the cause of my illness.

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• psychogenic
• conversion
• disorder
• neurological
• involuntary
• movements
• neurologists
• health
• speech
• difficulties

[chrislovespillz]

is this a joke or is this guy being serious

[kaazoom]

It's a joke!

[5thjune]

Paul, both my wife and I are debating whether you are serious about your diagnosis that a fish dying when you were 6 years old is the cause of your conversion disorder. I think you are serious. My wife thinks you are joking. The reason I think that you are serious is that I have a movement disorder and am trying to get a diagnosis.

Please let us know the answer to this question.

Mike

[kaazoom]

Hi mike, your wife is right. I am being very sarcastic. I find the whole Freudian concept of conversion disorder to be a load of twaddle, with little or no scientific evidence to back it. So many conditions once labeled conversion disorder are now recognised as real neurological conditions. I have now got a clinical diagnosis of Lyme disease and I am waiting for results of some blood tests. The last doctor I saw couldn't believe that the neurologist said I have no neurological symptoms!

[Bluebottle83]

Ha ha Paul, I'm so glad you've sorted yourself & the rest us all out. There I was thinking I'd had a severe neurological illness, myalgic encephalomyelitis, for the past 20 years & all the time it was because I didn't put enough air holes in my jar of caterpillars when I was 5 & they all died. Well, no more suppressed grief for me!

Will you be setting up as a therapist, because you make so much more sense than the psychiatrists with their aberrant somatisation belief.

[kaazoom]

Good idea! perhaps i'll call it eustace therapy after my poor long lost goldfish. I could charge say £100 an hour and £1000 to train my clients in how to perform Eustace therapy! Perhaps Prof Findlay might even conduct clinical trials!! Perhaps ME could be profitable ater all!

[kaazoom]

@OLiViAshhh  I am making fun of so called doctors who are quick to ascribe psychiartic causes to neurological symptoms. I am on the recieving end of such doctors.

[Drummerhb]

He looks like mike huckabee

[johnandraquell]

I have some advise sir, Never ever ever join the United States Marine Core!!!

[louloutinkerbelle]

Roflmao...great vid...the docs don't know the answer, so its all in your head. Of course this guy is not being serious, he is taking the mick out of the damn stupid UK doctors!

Kazoom that was real funny....keep em coming! Have you found a real answer to the movement disorder you have? I see you other vid re stiff man syndrome but none the wiser.... Sorry just read the above...

[tobybelchy]

Lol, thought this video was hilarious!!

Could see if was Freud related, brilliant :L

I was referred to pain management about 2 years ago now after having dreadful headaches following lots of brain ops.

I knew the pains weren't normal, yet pain management seemed to be the 'answer' as of course, talking about your problems to a stranger gets rid of this pain...

It never bloody helped, as it was never made up in my head, was literally days before i was back in hospital under the knife!

[Mariahkelstrup]

It is, unfortunately, very common here in Denmark that patients just get the message "it's all in your head." Even thought they suffer from ME, fibromyalgia, chronic whiplash and other physical diseases. But they are all considered "mental cases" burdens to society because of all the money they cost. And the doctors who do this invented a new diagnose for these "difficult patients" saying the above mentioned diseases are all the same. A functional disorder or bodily distress disorder or syndrome

[allegrorules]

Haha! :) Doctors really are idiots!! I have seizures and they have been misdiagnosed as psychogenic seizures and we now have proof that they are physiological which is a great relief! I am sorry about all your health problems right now and will keep you in my prayers. Also, if you ever need someone to talk to, I'm here.

[dreamtime182]

@kaazoom very well said, you just summed up all my frustrations with my own situation and the medical dickheads i deal with, knowing how they take for granted the assumption to dismiss you or circumvent further investigation because conversion disorder is a diagnosis of no return they just shoo you away into the darkness the nothing the fear...its all in your head ...bullshit - its in their head is the only psychiatric problem i have to deal with

[dreamtime182]

Great satire,its so goddam frustrating the patronising establishment using anachronistic dismissive crackpot theories from god knows how long ago. ive been diagnosed with conversion disorder but i know the morons are wrong and that the science hasnt been advanced enough (probably because of the theories).i want to a neurologist and she was a fucking bitch who didnt even give me the time of day to say one word all she said contemptously was 'theres nothing wrong goodbye' fucking pontificating doc