Paralysed From Stress | Chicago Med | MD TV 

Dr. Charles literally carries this show. He oughta have a spinoff of his own.

It just show that not everything we know as humans needs to be treated physically. Sometimes we just need and want people to listen. Mental illness can lead to physical stress on the body.

His bf visiting him made his left sided paralysis subside😭❤️❤️❤️❤️

I feel like the boy shut down because his parents weren't listening to him and the doctor thought he was just too chill, outside looking in.

Dr. Choi is always trying to prove his point no matter what

If I can’t express my emotions, my body finds a way. If I can‘t cry or suppress it, I get very sick and throw up until I finally cry. Our psyche is very complicated and complex but that‘s also why it‘s so interesting.

I never thought not coming out to his parents would cause him to be paralyzed

His boyfriend checking in on him means the world! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

I've experienced this. I lost my mom to cancer in 2011. She was only 54 and we were very close. I remember that I just kept powering through. When she was in hospice, I wanted to spend as much time as I possibly could with her and have those last memories. I powered forward through her visitation and funeral, and I had appeared to be holding up remarkably well given the circumstances. Two weeks after her funeral, I laid down on my couch for a nap and I woke up completely paralyzed from the waist down. I ended up having to call paramedics, and was rushed to the hospital where they ran every test and scan on me that they could think of. Everything always came back negative though, and I was eventually diagnosed with conversion disorder. It was a very humbling experience to go from having a fully functioning body to having to have somebody help me go to the bathroom within a matter of hours. I remember not being upset or overly concerned that I had lost the ability to walk or use my legs a lot like the patient in this video. In my mind though my thought process was that I had just watched my mom pass away from multiple myeloma, and the amount of pain that she went through was inhumane. I was not suffering or in pain. I felt like I didn't even have a right to complain because what I was experiencing was nowhere even close to what I had just watched my mom go through. I saw it as an inconvenience, but not a tragedy - whatever the outcome I would learn to adapt. I am grateful for the amazing team of physio and occupational therapists at the hospital who worked with me twice a day, every day to help me regain my abilities and learn to walk again. Looking back, I can see that my body was literally refusing to let me move forward at that time. It needed me to stop and process the trauma that I had just experienced. I'm happy to say that I did fully recover, and 6 months later I even became pregnant with my own daughter ❤

Considering that there's still so much about how our brains work that isn't fully understood, physical manifestations of emotional issues aren't unusual.

5:49 I find it so funny how it seems like even Dr. Charles was so surprised. Like "Well damn, I thought he was just going to talk to him."

imagine silencing your kid for asking a simple question

Finding out how many of my physical illnesses over the years were linked to mental health has drastically changed my life. Although I still struggle, just having an answer is a massive boost. All of my headaches, joint pain and constant minor illnesses were suddenly explained to me

Dr Charle's is the only one i would confide in he just has that trusting and caring feature about him

I’ve had two seizure-like episodes from stress that only happened after anesthesia because anesthesia lowers the threshold for such a thing to happen. It was scary and horrifying to experience.

this actually happened to me couple weeks ago, i was so stressed out because of my job and dont want to attend anymore meeting.. they my head just started spinning and my body wasn’t able to moving. this happened couple times for 3 weeks straight

One thing I can appreciate is that this show didn't seem to have the 'artificial drama' that others seem to. The parents were reasonable when the doctors told them what was going on, rather than denying everything and being combative. If the patient's condition is such that they would be combative, they reflect that too. It's a welcome change from 'Oh no...not MY child!'

As someone with conversion disorder it's very wild, but when you're raised in a household that your told "nothing ever leaves this house" you learn to push those feelings/emotions down. They only stay down for so long and remember our brains are growing & making new connections everyday so imagine what harm that does to the brain and the forever changes its made.

So the phrase paralysed by fear. Is quite true.

I was medically discharged from the Canadian armed forces a few years ago because I started having seizures everyday from stress. 6 years later I’m still having seizures and have been diagnosed with non epileptic seizure disorder because i was not treated correctly. Once your issues become chronic it becomes incredibly difficult to treat and there’s no medication for somatic symptoms. The treatment plan works most of the time if it’s caught and diagnosed properly. I miss my uniform ugh. Conversion disorders are very difficult to treat due to a big percentage of doctors believing you are doing it on purpose. It’s a lot more complicated than what Dr.Charles is making it seem and it’s often thrown as a diagnosis because they have no idea what’s wrong with you.

This happened to my daughter when she was not quite 11. She's grown out of it now...but it was very concerning back in the day.

this melted my heart.......the kiss scene was so tender 💕

You get so stressed out your body decides to shut down. How many of us does this happen to in our adult lives where we end up taking a long nap from being stressed out?

I get bad ticks when im under stressed, like squeezing my arms or cheeks. Stress really does hurt the human body in that way.

Respect to the show for handling this situation so well.

This episode is so precious to me 😭

The kid kept trying to talk and his parents kept cutting him off! Clearly they treat him that way at home, too! 😞

We should never be ashamed when our brains get sick. Its part of our body and sometimes it needs medical care too. There should never be a stigma about it

Can we just take a moment and realize that when Dr Charles came in he was playing Tetris 😂😂😂

I just wanted to say that conversion disorder is the very outdated term for this disorder its called fnd or functional neurological disorder and these symptoms can be sometimes caused be stress and/or trauma but mostly it can just come out of no where also most doctors just tell people with this disorder that its just in our heads but it is very much not :))

Love this. I have psyco pseudo seizures. I panic and my body shuts down. I have never been scared during one, because the brain shuts down that part too. Like a possum.

I hope men can learn to express their feelings as truthfully as they just did. This was beautiful🥺

Poor guy, so in love he'd paralyze himself in order to try and stay longer with the person he loves. Maybe he didn't willingly paralyze himself, but he was so stressed out about never seeing his love anymore his subconscious did it for him.

Conversion disorder is a very debilitating issue. I’ve struggled for 2 years.

Stress is crazy. Stress makes me throw up for days and triggers my seizures. The body will find a way to let all those negative things go.

His Boyfriend made everything better ❤❤❤❤❤❤

I have this. Drs don’t take it serious like this at all. Actually everyone avoids you sees you as just attention seeking. I’ve never felt so isolated, misunderstood and alone in my life.

It’s now called Functional Neurological Disorder. I was diagnosed with it last year. The brain and the body mix signals up. I had 3 mini strokes in the last 2 years, all caused by high stress. The first 2, they saw the clot. The last one, they didn’t and diagnosed me with FND. I’ve had two more reactions since the diagnosis where my brain mistook excitement for fight or flight. The left side of my face spasmed for 5 hours at a concert. The second time it happened, I felt my blood pressure shoot up. Did some breathing exercises and it stopped after about 10-15 minutes. That time, I was at work and there was a child screaming. Parents let the kid keep going, completely ignoring the kid and the screaming and crying got louder. My boss saw the beginning of the spasms and told me to go into the back and take a breather. It was near the end of my shift anyway. Very understanding man.

They're taking the news really very well.

I've actually been diagnosed with this in the past on a few different occasions. I've had instances of temporary blindness, being unable to talk, and muscle weakness all due to stress response.

I normally have a good opinion of Dr. Choi from the clips I’ve seen, but he really went too far this time.. He should’ve trusted the opinion of the one in charge :/

Been there. It was a hoot. Glad to be getting better, but my body still sometimes when it gets overwhelmed will just shut down.

Yeah, my stress manifests in my gut. Which seeing that this is an option isn't as awful as I thought it was.

He gives him the nod to say "kiss me stupid" and I wanna cry

Once I had a tic in my arm due to stress, it was weird and kinda scary-

Something like this is currently what’s happening with me; for now, it’s considered more Functional Neurological Disorder than conversion disorder since it’s unclear how much of the symptoms was caused by stress, though there were many possible stressors shortly before. I’ve had my symptoms for about 2 and a half years by now, unable to live independently as a result, thanks to episodes of grand-mal-esque seizures combined with locked-in syndrome (sometimes including being unable to breathe). I have yet to experience paralysis, though my body sometimes just . . . refuses to work lol, but I can still feel it. It’s as if the body itself is dissociating. I think I’ve had a brush with blindness, where my peripheral vision seemed to have suddenly shrink, though it hasn’t happened once. It’s frustrating, to have an invisible disability that’s so unique and rare and with a variety of possible symptoms. What’s worse is the feeling that I’m not trying hard enough to get out of it, being told how I need to get a stronger mind and put more effort in and “actually” try my best. I don’t have control, and I really wish I did. Please believe me in that. Not sure how to end this comment, but yeah.

I laughed out loud when the two docs arguing looked at Dr Charles when his idea worked. The reaction from both actors was spot on.

I have generalized anxiety disorder (also chronic depression) and I was in a very toxic relationship in the past, we'd argue a lot, I was also in a lot of stress because I had ran away from home and then had to come back, we'd argue on the phone and finally all this stress and anxiety piled up and I had what I can describe as an anxiety attack I think, my heart was racing but I also had difficulty breathing, it hurt too. so I had to use an oxygen mask, I believe that's what it's called, this lasted for about 20 hours and then stopped

LMAO at 1:13 you can clearly see the actress playing the mom laughing before saying her line that her son can’t move. Don’t know if it’s her fault for bad acting or editers fault for not cutting it out but it’s hilarious

Stress can truly make you as ill as any chronic disease. When I was 17, I had to be hospitalised for two weeks; I had rashes similar to dengue/ extreme temperature fever, with on and off fever for two weeks prior, occurring only when it was dusk or in the middle of night. I had migraines but had heightened appetites, which made my attending confused. My laboratories were all fine, though, and I even gained weight. Everyone couldn’t figure out what I was being sick from, until someone suggested it - it might be psychological. I was mentally stressed, emotionally unwell, and this was all manifesting physically because I felt then that I had no other outlet. It was luck that a patient from another ward who was around the same age as I was got diagnosed with Conversion Disorder, and they took my case side by side with that person’s.

The body expresses in ways words and emotions are not enough.

Person: I don't wanna leave here but i don't know how to tell my parents Body: I gotchu fam *paralyizes body*

"READY TO GO CROSS COUNTRY?!" Yeah I'd probably go into full lock up too.

“You texted you can’t move” 😂😂? How do u text if u can move?

I have this but conversion disorder is an outdated term. For some people it is a conversion of stress into physical symptoms, it is for me, but that’s not the case for everyone. It’s now called Functional Neurological Disorder, which includes everyone who has neurological symptoms for no medical reason.

I’ve had gastrointestinal problems since childhood. Tested negative for IBS and colon issues. Psychotherapy confirmed my stress and severe emotions were destroying my intestines.

I’m surprised this hasn’t happened to me. At times, I have been in unimaginable stress

Okay, this really helps my severe stress and anxiety 🤯🤯💀

Parents just don’t understand teenagers❤️😥😥❤️

I used to try to follow a jogging routine. On occasion I would develop what felt like a sprained ankle. Once I would get going, it would start to go away or if I changed my mind and decided to stay in, it would go away. I realized I should pay attention to my body and since then I rarely injure

when i am really nervous before something and i have to commute i literally have no energy. it feels like you ran a marathon right before and haven't eaten in a week. the second i get to where i need to be, it lets go.

Sweet how his boyfriend said he was his friend to not "out" him.

Dr.choi ls my favorite human

I love Dr. Choi but he makes me so angry!! I love that he wants to stand true to his conviction but sir!! you're not always the only one who knows what's right!

I have a disorder the disorder that is actually the newer term for conversion disorder and a few similar conditions, and I get things like pne seizures due to things like stress and sensory overload, and I’ve had paralysis in my legs a few times, and it was terrifying. Your body not listening to you even though the doctors are saying there’s no physical reason is really scary. I’ve even had some people (lucky for me they weren’t any of my doctors) try to tell me my condition isn’t real when it very much is. A lot of people seem to not understand that mental health can manifest itself physically too, everything is so connected. Your brain is still an organ in your body, and it’s called mental illness for a reason. Representation and educating people about conditions like mine and this one are so important, not just for the people who have them, but also so people know to take mental health more seriously

Who knew stress could cause this.

His parents: ( moving to California ) You can’t defeat me! Kevin: Oh I know, but he can *CONVERSION DISORDER* Edit: I changed moving to California so it wasn’t in bold

these medical shows sure do love to push things more then others

I am paralyzed from stress I have FND or functional neurological disorder it’s so hard and there are so many symptoms it’s hard and I have limited function and can’t do much on my own it is also known as conversion disorder I have been paralyzed a year

Normally I like Dr. Choi, but he was completely reckless here and could have endangered that boy. He was so sure he was right even though there were a lot of clues saying there was something else going on. I really wanted him to get pouched by the other doctors

I did not see that boyfriend thing coming. Oh well, such is life.

I hve been like this from stress. Stayed n the hospital a week.

Before I was put on medicine and before I knew I had anxiety the last straw for me needing help was when I had a really bad anxiety attack at work. My whole body went numb I couldn’t move and I thought I was having a heart attack. Went to the hospital and it was just anxiety. The mind is an amazing yet scary thing.

I have suffered with conversion disorder and it is super scary! I can't talk or move and my body has a lot of uncontrollable movements when people try to move me. Its frustrating and scary for me and the people around me but luckily I know what to do when it happens and I barely have it anymore

That friendship is so pure I'm tearing up

Hey my name is doctor Choi and I love complaining 🤣

This type of stuff can have, I have seizures from stress💗

They do look like great friends.

I knew one girl, parents were preachers. They wanted her to get married. She didn't want to get married. She became paralyzed. She was always super cheerful and happy. . I do not know what became of her. I hope she stood up to her parents.

He can’t move, but he still got that cell phone. He’s paralyzed but there was too much movement in the MRI to read it? He doesn’t want to move and leave his friends

Stress causes lots of issues

Good thing I don't go limp every time I'm nervous, I'd get nothing done.

4:07 - HIPAA violation, my dude 🤦‍♂️

Wonderful that his bf came visit him ❤

So I wonder… I have clinical depression and when it peaks I genuinely can’t get out of bed. I’m not paralyzed physically, but it’s like mentally I can’t make it happen. It’s not a feeling of, “Ugh, I don’t wanna.” It’s, “Oh, my god, I CAN’T!” Wonder if that’s a related form of what they show here. A glitch due to mental illness even though the body is totally fine.

i had a tic a month ago cuz of stress because of finals and it lasted for a few weeks

Love can move mountains!

Well someone should tell this to my mom, my siblings, her friends who always on her side, and everyone else who agrees with her because at this point I feel like giving up cause nobody cares about my mental health right now and it is not in a good state right now.

Aww that's so cute🥰🥰

I've seen this twice in practice and it's intense to see.

How'd the talk go? I gotta know if they supported their son!

I fear this might happen to me someday

I got paralyzed due to stress when i was 18 it was a bad time

I have a severe anxiety disorder and though I take medication, if I am very stressed or nervous or panicked I occasionally get seizure or comatose type episodes. It’s weird. I can’t move or speak, I’ll just stop. Or sometimes my body will twitch, like my head or hands. Sometimes for a few seconds and I snap out barely noticing it, sometimes it’s longer. My friends know when it happens to just be chill and I come out of it fine, like “yeah, she does that sometimes, it’s all good” lol The brain is such an interesting and complex organ.

I don’t get paralysed but I get seizures. It’s a mess when you don’t speak or are unable to express your feelings. They start coming all out unstoppable in physical symptoms and then that can cause harm into you.

wait is the son and the friend dating?

Bro was playing Tetris lol😂

This one made me cry.

And I was paralyzed for the whole body at one point

Where do I get more? Like, part two?