<s>[INST] When my boyfriend broke up with me, he was crying and very emotional. This was very strange because he is not an emotional person at all. He couldn’t move; it was almost like he was paralyzed. Fortunately after a few minutes he could move again. It was really scary and obviously sad because he was breaking up with me. Could you explain the temporary paralysis? I just don’t understand how that happened, and he was not exaggerating. [/INST] Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. Due to underlying stress people can have conversion or dissociate reaction. It could have been one of such conversion episode. They tend to remit after a few weeks or months. People do it unconsciously. There are medicine and psychotherapy available to tackle such episodes. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further. </s>