A unifying theory for cognitive abnormalities in functional neurological disorders, Fibromyalgia and CFS (2018), Mark J Edwards et al.

Wait, what?

 

Smacks of Nero fiddling while Rome burned.

 

Fully agree, and whittered on about this myself.

 

I have seen this pick before still can't fathom what is meant by it

 

It's tripe, the stomach lining of, normally, cows I believe. In this context, the research is being described as tripe, which is to say something poor, worthless, or offensive.

 

my brain just sees four pieces of shammy leather lol

 

You can add the words “what a load of” in front of tripe...just posting the picture it’s my way to save valuable cognitive energy rather than spend it commenting further on time wasting piles of research garbage that are just designed it seems to waste everybody else’s time but stroke some overinflated ego for a small group of narcissists

Tripe although a source of protein is no substitute for a juicy steak. Tripe also smells like cow shit and is quite indigestible and you only resort to it when nothing better is around.

 

"What are Functional Neurological Disorders (FND’s)
Functional Neurological Disorders (FND's) is the name given for symptoms in the body which appear to be caused by problems in the nervous system but which are not caused by a physical neurological disease or disorder. Health professionals sometimes call these disorders ‘medically unexplained’, psychosomatic or somatisation. We prefer the term ‘functional’ which just means that the body is not functioning quite as it should."
https://www.sth.nhs.uk/services/a-z-of-services?id=115&page=293

 

@arewenearlythereyet likes his tripe

 

It's also the label more and more ME patients are being given. They don't realise they're being told their symptoms are psychosomatic!

 

From as long ago as 1922 in the shell shock report the terms "functional nerve disorder", "neurasthenia" and "neurosis" seem to have been used in such a way as to suggest that they were synonymous and interchangeable.

 

there was a time in history when it was believed that similar looking embryos share most genes and have the same origin...

 

Some people like tripe soup.

 

I simply LOVE this picture, @arewenearlythereyet! It so perfectly says what it's about.

 

That's what I learned early on: functional = psychosomatic - all in your head. Interesting, though, that many/some doctors call epilepsy a functional disorder. I don't understand that fully.

 

You can have functional, non-epileptic seizures. But then 'functional' can also be used to mean what it actually means (as in, related to the 'function' of something). For instance, functional MRI does look at actual brain function. It's not a scan of pschosomatic brain matrices (I just made those up, but it probably fits the FND theory somewhere). So it is, indeed, a terrible muddle. But this is useful for doctors, because they can say one thing and mean another.

 

I see. Again muddle.

 

Functional = another hijacked word by people who enjoy doublespeak

 

I remain appalled at the sound of crickets from the medical community about these hijackings and the non sensical musings behind them. Where is the outcry and the outrage? Why are people so ready to adopt these blame-the-patient theories? Oh, I forgot, illness, tragedy, and misfortune are the inherent failings of the person experiencing them.