Conversion Disorder/Hysteria in Children - Frequently Asked Questions/FAQS

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Dr Vihang N Vahia

Hon . Psychiatrist & Prof of Psychiatry
Dr R.N. Cooper Hospital & Seth G .S.Medical College,Bombay 400 056.

Consultant at:

Breach Candy Hospital.
Gandhi (Bhajekar) Hospital.
Hurkisondas Hospital.
Nanavati Hospital.

Q. How does a patient with hysteria present ?
Hysteria may present as affliction of organ of special senses i.e. as hysterical deafness, hysterical blindness. It may also affect the voluntary nervous system and patient may present with hyperventilation, convulsions, paraesthesias etc.

Q. How common is hysteria ?
Hysteria is not common in children. It is common in females, in teens and in young adults.

Q. How does a parent deal with such problem in her child ?
The most appropriate way to deal with such a child is to be persuasive and firm. Do not pamper the child. Let not the child gain any empathy and sympathy. The child should learn that he or she is not going to get anything out of being sick.

Q. Would making the patient smell onions, ether or smelly socks abort the attack ?
No

Q. Is hysteria more common in girls? And if yes, why ?
Yes. It probably depends on the way children are brought up. In a male dominated society, girls are always trained to inhibit their social ways and the only way out for them is to get things done by sympathy.

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