...other doctors — primarily neurologist, Dr. Jurriaan Peters — dismissed her previous diagnosis of mitochondrial disease, and declared that her symptoms of difficulty eating and walking, were mostly psychological in origin. He diagnosed her with somatoform disorder, changing her diagnosis from a physical condition to a stress-related mental illness — a psychiatric disorder that causes sufferers to feel pain, although there is no physical cause. When Justina’s parents, Lou and Linda Pelletier, challenged the diagnosis by insisting on a second opinion, they were told that they could not take her from the hospital. policestateusa/2013/justina-pelletier-custody-battle/
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