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Thanks, Juliejayne. I think you focused in on what needs to be emphasized here: although there is such a thing as psychogenic symptoms, in the case of MG, the overwhelming problem is that neurological symptoms are wrongly diagnosed as psychogenic, and not the other way around.
What I learned from my experience is that:
1. Psychogenic doesn't mean "all in your head." Psychogenic symptoms aren't imaginary or faked or not "real."
2. It's possible that neurological symptoms can generate additional psychogenic ones. In other words, it's wrong to think that an illness must be either psychogenic or neurological. In my case, I think I was having neurological symptoms with an "overlay" of psychogenic symptoms.
Abby
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