Question

When a client with functional neurologic symptom disorder reports blindness, ophthalmologic examinations reveal that no physiologic disorder is causing progressive vision loss. the most likely source of this client's reported blindness is:?

Answer 1

The answer is ‘having been forced to watch the torture of a loved one’. Research has shown a correlation between progressive visual loss and depression especially in adults. In the study, 1 in every 10 adults US citizens who has reported visual loss has been clinically categorized to have depression disorder.