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Hurting when startled. Being intimidated by “minor” challenges. Being overwhelmed. Craving sugar, craving nicotine. Focussing internally. Difficulty hearing because don’t move head, or if need bed rest, only have one operational ear. Disabilities specific to the underlying causes.
[The average duration of symptoms before treatment of multidisciplinary pain center patients was 7 years.]
Turk, Dennis, and Melzack, Ronald, "Handbook of Pain Assessment", The Guildford Press, 2011, 189
Conversion disorder is characterized by the presence of a symptom or deficit affecting voluntary motor or sensory function that suggests a neurological or general medical condition. The two criteria for this disorder are the presence of the symptom and judgment by the psychiatric examiner that psychological factors are....
Fishbain, David A., "Psychiatric Pain-Associated Co-morbidities", Chapter 19 of McMahon et al. 2013, 2013, 276
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