When anxiety or severe emotional conflicts are transformed into physical symptoms resembling disease or disability, it is called
A)traumatic neurosis.
B)a psychosomatic illness.
C)a dissociative fugue state.
D)a conversion disorder.

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A conversion disorder is when psychological stress is converted into physical symptoms. This can include things like paralysis or blindness without any physical cause. It is also sometimes referred to as somatization disorder.

When Anxiety or Severe Emotional Conflicts Are Transformed into Physical