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Remember, it’s imperative that you transform this problem of yours into a problem for the patient. If you’re in a bad mood, why not internally blame them for it? After all, if there weren’t so many patients - with all of their interminable problems - would you be ‘behind’? Either way, be sure...

After reading those points I can only think: how on earth has he only realised this now? He’s been working on FND for 20 years or so hasn’t he? These conclusions that he has supposedly finally arrived at are things that seemed entirely obvious to me as glaring weaknesses in the FND theory -...

I was diagnosed without rule-in signs. That seems common.

hmmmm

Hello. I’ve given this a go using some free AI tools publically available. The resulting transcript isn’t perfect but it’s pretty accurate. There are some parts with large unbroken and unpunctuated blocks of text unfortunately. The speech-to-text tool I used can recognise pauses and replicate...

You could ask the channel holder if they are able to get a transcript from the YouTube back end (channel tools) that they could share. Anyone here who’s on a desktop computer (I’m not, mine is out of action) could try the following method, but I think you’d end up with a transcript that is...

There will be an AI tool available now that can make a transcript of the video. I’m not sure which one.

It’s amazing that they think they can just claim stuff like fatigue, brain fog and sleep problems when I would say that broadly speaking all of those things are infamously tricky to pin down sometimes as they can be potentially caused by a load of different illnesses or interactions between...

Very well put. The whole thing is so perverse. If you’ve had to sit there while a person in good health has either implicitly or explicitly suggested that you’re ‘overly’ focused on your symptoms, it makes you want to scream. That first moment when you realise that being sick, sicker than...

“Multiple tests were unable to find any obvious cause” Perhaps there was a less obvious cause then? Even possibly a much less obvious cause? Why is ruling out (some) obvious causes always treated as ruling out definitively all possible causes? I feel so, so sorry for all of the people...

I felt nauseous the other day - FND confirmed?! Hmmm. It really makes you think.

When I was first diagnosed with FND I was directed to Stone’s website. All the consultant herself said to me as an explanation for the diagnosis was some very brief waffle about software, as per Stone. Then she told me to check the website out. I was instantly suspicious. Then I checked out...

I wondered. Thanks.

I came across this article sometime in the last 2 years while researching FND. Functional Neurological Disorder – Pushing the boundaries of medical credibility? I’m not sure what to do in terms of reproducing it here or quoting parts; I’m not sure of the usual approach here to sources, I’m out...

The mechanism(s) of action in FND is just presented as a black box. They say they don’t know what happens in the box. Yet they project total confidence in their construct of FND. While simultaneously calling for further research.

The way he writes, the way they all write about this issue, is maddening. Where is the acknowledgment that emerging physical evidence could possibly invalidate the whole supposed theoretical basis for FND? If the vague and expansive set of symptoms that they call FND (including common...

Everything here is utterly infuriating. How - really genuinely how - can a medical field be allowed to work in this fashion?

‘This framework challenges our traditional understanding..’ I’m sorry but I started laughing out loud instantly upon reading this.

Exactly. Jon Stone is out there saying what he considers best practice now, and the DSM5 at least says to exclude other causes of symptoms - but thats guidance. What's actually happening in clinical practice?

I want to bring this thread back onto the topic of FND, as my comments and responses have gone slightly off-topic and I don't want to make the thread about me. It does relate me to, but also to everyone who receives the FND diagnosis and that's the worry that the FND diagnosis will follow me...