What are Psychogenic Movement Disorders? | Kati Morton

They believe that psychogenic movements can occur as a result of conversion disorder, or they could develop as part of somatoform disorders. These are mental illnesses that cause us a lot of pain, and discomfort but there is no medical or neurological issue that can explain why they feel what they feel. Also, know that people who struggle with these are not making their symptoms up or causing it themselves, it’s just a mental illness that shows itself primarily through physical symptoms. They also say these movements could be developed through us having factitious disorder, which is when we act like we have a mental or physical disorder when we really do not. We do this so that we can get attention and/or sympathy. And finally they have linked these movements to malingering (which is not a mental illness but instead it’s when people fake being sick or ill in order to get time off of work, get money for benefits, etc).
Psychogenic movements are different from other movement disorders (like tremors or parkinson's) in that they come on quickly, can rapidly increase, and then stop for periods of time to either not come back or come back at seemingly random times. So what I really got out of learning what these psychogenic movements are is that they aren’t movements we initiate, they can come and go, and they could be part of another mental illness, but they definitely aren’t due to a medical condition.

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