They believe that psychogenic movements can occur as a result of conversion disorder, or they could develop as part of somatoform disorders. These are mental illnesses that cause us a lot of pain, and discomfort but there is no medical or neurological issue that can explain why they feel what they feel. Also, know that people who struggle with these are not making their symptoms up or causing it themselves, it’s just a mental illness that shows itself primarily through physical symptoms. They also say these movements could be developed through us having factitious disorder, which is when we act like we have a mental or physical disorder when we really do not. We do this so that we can get attention and/or sympathy. And finally they have linked these movements to malingering (which is...
Original source: What are Psychogenic Movement Disorders?
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