“Somewhere Between an Actual Disease and a Disease”: A Grounded Theory Study on Diagnosing FNDs From a Multi-Informant Perspective 2023 Sireci et al

It's probably also worth commenting on the title.

“Somewhere Between an Actual Disease and a Disease” makes no logical sense. Which is to say makes as much sense as the entire paradigm: it's all functional, everything's fine, there's nothing structurally wrong - oh wait actually there is structural abnormality - aahhh so yes that's because of the functional disorder. See also various definitions for and convoluted explanations of mind/body dualism/monoism.

Where did that quote come from?

So a patient was bamboozled and summarised their explanation as: so I've got a problem that's between a disease and ... a disease. This is then cyclicly returned by the experts as the descriptor that precedes their paper on "a grounded theory study on diagnosing FNDs".

From Wikipedia, a grounded theory study is —

So there we have it. Case closed M'lud.

 

Sure and its an unreasonable proposition.

Its probably worth saying, to the imaginary audience of whoever reads this thread or discussions arising from it, that there is a difference between saying that physiological neurological illness can cause difficulties with a psychological aspect which can benefit from appropriate advice etc and saying that psychology is causing the illness.

BPS holds that illness is caused by a psychological dysfunction which creates physiological disease, without any evidence base, simply a self proclaimed "expert" hunch, which happens to fit neatly with the cost cutting agenda of insurance companies.

They try to pass it off as science but its not, its PR influencing, like Freud and tobacco marketing, thoroughly unscientific disreputable blaggery.

It is a more reasonable proposition that there are many neurological conditions which can occur, which we dont know much about and are still only beginning to understand because medical science is still in its infancy. We don't have explanations for many of them and the best we can currently do is help people cope until we know more.

Which does not include making stuff up and incorrectly blaming them for causing it in the first place to save money for shareholders.