wrong with his son. “I believe this was a bad spirit who possessed my son’s body and now God has shown us this miracle through your blessed hands,” the father said in the video.
Sardar facepalmed himself while watching the video thinking ‘if conversion disorder still has such a big impact on re-enforcing superstition in the twenty first century, then how big was its effect in the ancient times?’ Nevertheless, Sardar himself was baffled by how responsive patients with conversion disorder were to the suggestions of a faith-healer. In the video, there was another young girl who was mute but started to talk immediately after the faith-healer recited his magic words over her, and there was another man claiming recent deafness but who started to hear again after the faith-healing. For Sardar, conversion disorder looked like a functional brain disorder which was hard wired specifically to be cured by faith-healing!
He thought that in the ancient times humans lived in small communities and societies; their size could have ranged from hundreds to thousands. If there was a conflict or a war among them, then bigger communities with larger sizes had better chances of winning and survival. However, larger communities would not have been possible if they hadn’t had a strong leader. A strong leader would not have been possible if people hadn’t seen their leaders as gods. People would not have seen their leaders as gods if they hadn’t possessed faith-healing powers, and hence, conversion disorders helped to create the illusion of some having supernatural or godly powers!
So in short, the genes that produced this weird disorder re-enforced superstition among people and the latter had a greater survival value at least in the ancient times; this was Sardar’s thoughts about this psychological disorder which was commonly depicted as exorcism. So for Sardar, the whole situation was like a conspiracy imposed upon them by Mother Nature.
On the contrary, Hast thought conversion disorder was a sign that Mother Nature herself wanted us to adopt religion and believe in God! “There are countless ways for Mother Nature to evolve something that promoted unity among humans, so why would she choose superstition to do that?” he asked.
“Maybe, that was the easiest,” Sardar answered.
“No, I think Nature wants us to believe in something higher than ourselves, and superstition was the first step for us to realize that there was something supernatural about the universe. This is how ∞Illuhim∞ has revealed himself to us,” Hast said.
***
Sardar hated conversion disorder a lot, not only because it was the main tool in the hands of faith-healers, but he also thought that the disorder was no longer useful for human survival. He remembered one of his night shifts alone in the emergency ward. It was on a night he was exhausted after treating more than ten serious cases. His last case was a young 19 year old girl. She was brought to the ER by her friend, and she was unconscious. Sardar checked her vital signs and they were all normal. There was no serious neurological signs like pupil dilatation or an increase in her reflexes. Her friend said that the young girl had caught her boyfriend cheating on her today and she felt upset. She arrived at the friend’s house in tears and moments later fell unconscious. To Sardar, this was a typical case of conversion disorder again, an emotional problem presenting itself as a functional neurological problem. He thought about sending her for an MRI scan to be extra sure and exclude any possibility of a real neurological problem, but after hearing the story from her friend, he became certain that this case was just another conversion disorder and sending for an MRI was not necessary, but he decided to keep her under observation for a while. After all, a doctor’s job was to filter out serious diseases from non-serious ones and send only the needy patients for further expensive
Sardar facepalmed himself while watching the video thinking ‘if conversion disorder still has such a big impact on re-enforcing superstition in the twenty first century, then how big was its effect in the ancient times?’ Nevertheless, Sardar himself was baffled by how responsive patients with conversion disorder were to the suggestions of a faith-healer. In the video, there was another young girl who was mute but started to talk immediately after the faith-healer recited his magic words over her, and there was another man claiming recent deafness but who started to hear again after the faith-healing. For Sardar, conversion disorder looked like a functional brain disorder which was hard wired specifically to be cured by faith-healing!
He thought that in the ancient times humans lived in small communities and societies; their size could have ranged from hundreds to thousands. If there was a conflict or a war among them, then bigger communities with larger sizes had better chances of winning and survival. However, larger communities would not have been possible if they hadn’t had a strong leader. A strong leader would not have been possible if people hadn’t seen their leaders as gods. People would not have seen their leaders as gods if they hadn’t possessed faith-healing powers, and hence, conversion disorders helped to create the illusion of some having supernatural or godly powers!
So in short, the genes that produced this weird disorder re-enforced superstition among people and the latter had a greater survival value at least in the ancient times; this was Sardar’s thoughts about this psychological disorder which was commonly depicted as exorcism. So for Sardar, the whole situation was like a conspiracy imposed upon them by Mother Nature.
On the contrary, Hast thought conversion disorder was a sign that Mother Nature herself wanted us to adopt religion and believe in God! “There are countless ways for Mother Nature to evolve something that promoted unity among humans, so why would she choose superstition to do that?” he asked.
“Maybe, that was the easiest,” Sardar answered.
“No, I think Nature wants us to believe in something higher than ourselves, and superstition was the first step for us to realize that there was something supernatural about the universe. This is how ∞Illuhim∞ has revealed himself to us,” Hast said.
***
Sardar hated conversion disorder a lot, not only because it was the main tool in the hands of faith-healers, but he also thought that the disorder was no longer useful for human survival. He remembered one of his night shifts alone in the emergency ward. It was on a night he was exhausted after treating more than ten serious cases. His last case was a young 19 year old girl. She was brought to the ER by her friend, and she was unconscious. Sardar checked her vital signs and they were all normal. There was no serious neurological signs like pupil dilatation or an increase in her reflexes. Her friend said that the young girl had caught her boyfriend cheating on her today and she felt upset. She arrived at the friend’s house in tears and moments later fell unconscious. To Sardar, this was a typical case of conversion disorder again, an emotional problem presenting itself as a functional neurological problem. He thought about sending her for an MRI scan to be extra sure and exclude any possibility of a real neurological problem, but after hearing the story from her friend, he became certain that this case was just another conversion disorder and sending for an MRI was not necessary, but he decided to keep her under observation for a while. After all, a doctor’s job was to filter out serious diseases from non-serious ones and send only the needy patients for further expensive
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