Originally Posted by Libertine

You're such a fucking idiot...

Firstly, nobody calls her a faker. Patients suffering from psychogenic diseases actually have real symptoms which, to them, are indistinguishable from symptoms with a physiological cause. That should be evident from the very existence of psychosomatic diseases, where psychiatric causes have measurable physiological effects.

To give a well-known example: psychological stress has lots of clear effects on the human body. It weakens the immune system, influences levels of certain hormones, etc. And you can trust me when I say that it's damn hard to fake changed hormone levels.

Secondly, you might have noticed that she's talking about discussing the case with people specialized in motion disorders. Here's an example of one, talking about this very case:



Again, he suspects it's a psychogenic motion disorder. How surprising.

But hey, don't let annoying things like reality get in the way of your idiocy. After all, inconvenient things like your IQ being lower than your shoe size and your complete and utter lack of knowledge about anything even remotely related to medicine don't interfere with your ability to just magically feel the truth in your gut, right?