Research Paper The International Journal of Indian Psychology ISSN 2348-5396 (e) | ISSN: 2349-3429 (p) Volume 6, Issue 1, DIP: 18.01.007/20180601 DOI: 10.25215/0601.007 http://www.ijip.in | January - March, 2018 © 2018 Khan M S & Zaheer K; licensee IJIP. This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Stress, Coping, and Depression in Patients with Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder Dr. Masha Asad Khan 1 *, Ms. Komal Zaheer 2 ABSTRACT The present study aimed to investigate the relationship of coping strategies (adaptive & maladaptive) with stress and depression among functional neurological symptom disorder patients. A purposive sample of 250 patients (m=78; f=172), aged between 13-65 years (m.a=25.43years; sd= 11.94) was selected from four different hospitals of lahore. Data was collected by administering a demographic questionnaire, holmes and rahe stress scale (hrss), brief cope scale, and beck depression inventory (bdi-ii). Ex post facto research design was used. Data was analyzed by using pearson’s product moment coefficient of correlation and mediation analysis. Individual testing with one time approach to participants was employed. result indicated a significant relationship of coping strategies with stress and depression among fnsd patients. Findings revealed maladaptive coping strategies (avoidance, emotional focused, denial etc.) were positively correlated with stress and depression, whereas high stress and depression were correlated with less usage of adaptive strategies (problem focused, planning, humor, religious, etc.). Keywords: Stress, Coping, Depression, Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder. Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder (FNSD) was earlier referred to as Conversion disorder. It is one of type of somatic symptoms and related disorders which involves unexplained symptoms affecting voluntary motor or sensory functions of the body (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Person with FNSD is not “faking” but symptoms that appear are not under the person’s conscious control and are mainly caused by psychological factors, such as stress, conflict, attention seeking behavior etc. Generally, the presence of psychological stress is considered to be a cause in FNSD and the patient lacks the adequate strategy to deal with a stress (Stone, Carson, & Sharpe, 2005). Common symptoms include weakness, blindness, paralysis, dystonia, gait disorder, psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, motor tics, dementia etc. (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Ercan, Varan, and Veznedaroglu (2003) reported the most common presentation of FNSD was pseudo-seizures, 1 Associate Prof. Applied Psychology Department, Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore Pakistan 2 M.Phil. Clinical Psychologist, Al-Karam Hospital, MandiBahauDdin., Pakistan *Responding Author Received: November 14, 2017; Revision Received: January 2, 2018; Accepted: January 25, 2018