Blindness, paralysis, deafness without any biological reason are symptoms of ________ disorder.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Conversion disorder
Option (1) Illness anxiety disorder — Incorrect. Here the person has a persistent preoccupation with developing a serious illness and keeps worrying about it. The worry about health is the problem; there is no loss of sight, hearing or movement.
Option (2) Dissociative disorder — Incorrect. Dissociative disorders involve a severance of the connections between ideas and emotions: feelings of unreality, estrangement, depersonalisation, sometimes a loss or shift of identity, and sudden temporary alterations of consciousness that blot out painful experiences. They concern consciousness and identity, not the loss of a body function.
Option (3) Dissociative amnesia — Incorrect. It is one of the dissociative disorders: extensive but selective memory loss with no known organic cause. The loss is of memory, not of a body function.
Option (4) Conversion disorder — Correct. The symptoms of conversion disorders are the reported loss of part or all of some basic body functions. Paralysis, blindness, deafness and difficulty in walking are generally among the symptoms reported, with no biological cause; they often follow a stressful experience and may be quite sudden.
Note 1: A similar question was also asked in CUET (UG) 2023 on 27-05-2023 (Slot 1).
Note 2: A similar question was also asked in CUET (UG) 2022 on 05-08-2022 (Slot 2).
NCERT (2025-26): “Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders … The symptoms of conversion disorders are the reported loss of part or all of some basic body functions. Paralysis, blindness, deafness and difficulty in walking are generally among the symptoms reported. These symptoms often occur after a stressful experience and may be quite sudden.…” “Dissociative Disorders … Dissociation can be viewed as severance of the connections between ideas and emotions. Dissociation involves feelings of unreality, estrangement, depersonalisation, and sometimes a loss or shift of identity. Sudden temporary alterations of consciousness that blot out painful experiences are a defining characteristic of dissociative disorders. Conditions included in this are Dissociative Amnesia, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and Depersonalisation/Derealisation Disorder.…”
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