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What is Conversion Disorder? | HealthGuru

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Plato recognized hysteria as a mental illness. But it was Sigmund Freud who named the mental condition conversion disorder. In this personality disorder, psychological stress manifests as physical symptoms like having a seizure, or going blind.

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