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A teenager who was body shamed lost the ability to walk within two weeks and needed a wheelchair

“The pain she had bottled up had finally found expression — not in words, but in her body,” her neurologist, Dr. Sudhir Kumar, explained

Dr. Kumar explained that her disorder was “real” and a “genuine illness,” and said physical and mental therapy helped her regain her ability to walk

A young girl’s anxiety over being body shamed at school caused her to be paralyzed in what her doctor called a “genuine illness.”

A 15-year-old “bright student and talented debater” visited Dr. Sudhir Kumar, a neurologist with Apollo Hospitals in Hyderabad, India, who shares intriguing cases on social media.

In a post on X , Dr. Kumar explained that a month before coming to his office, Riya (a

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