Posted by Princess Artemis on June 19, 2001, at 0:11:58
That's what the neurologist and psychiatrist both said, although never to me, only to family.
Is this even possible? My movement trouble is pretty severe, and as I understand it, the psych assumed a great deal when he talked to my mother about it.
He assumed I knew what the withdrawal effects of Paxil were because I looked them up and not because I had them...maybe he meant I looked them up and then manifested them rather than had the symptoms and then did the research. This seems to me to be a rather wild conjecture...I mean, surely I'm not the only one who has begun having severe symptoms that decided to figure out what they were...(I'm rather irritated by this assumption he made without even asking me about it.)
He also assumed I had researched movement disorders before I started manifesting symptoms rather than the other way around. He told my mom my 'movement disorder' was too far off the severe end of the spectrum to be real. In otherwords, I couldn't have TD because my TD was too severe to be TD and thus I must be 'making it up.'
According to the neurologist what my disorder is called is chorea athetosis, which he believes the stuttering to be also. (He did a zillion tests and said they all came back in the normal range, so he thinks it's psychosomatic too >:P .)
So...does anyone know or even heard of someone developing chorea athetosis in all limbs and trunk and face as a psychosomatic syndrome?
Personaly, as I know how this has developed in me, I am positive it is Paxil induced movement disorder. The start of this whole adventure was the precise moment I attempted to taper off Paxil. Plus, the psych's reasons for thinking it's psychosomatic hold water the same way a sieve does; I'm having no bizarre stress in life...going back to college to get a master's and credential in special ed. doesn't seem like a gigantic psychological chrisis to me.
Any opinions? Anyone ever heard of someone mentally conjuring up such a severe movement disorder? Is there anything in the literature?
Princess Artemis, who is not making this up.
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