Conversion Disorder

Your leg no longer obeys you. Or your hand. Or your eyes suddenly see nothing, even though they are healthy. Your body shows symptoms that look like a neurological disease — paralysis, numbness, tremors, vision loss, swallowing difficulties — but no doctor can find a physical cause. The nerves conduct. The muscles function. The MRI is unremarkable. And yet: your body refuses to perform.

This is not imagination. This is not simulation. This is your nervous system carrying a burden that has become too heavy — and translating it into the only language that remains: the language of the body. What you cannot feel, cannot say, cannot carry, expresses itself as a physical symptom. Your body speaks where your words have fallen silent.