what is a pseudoseizures
Medical anthropologists argue from a cross-cultural perspective that somatized symptoms such as pseudoseizures are best understood as bodily idioms of distress. This approach suggests that a pseudoseizure can be a nonverbal, bodily language for communicating distress about which words cannot be spoken. Often it is because a patient feels trapped in an unspeakable dilemma that only nonverbal, bodily communications of distress, such as pseudoseizures, can be expressed.