Identifying functional cognitive disorder: a proposed diagnostic risk model, 2021, Stone, Carson et al

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Abstract and full paper, https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...c-risk-model/C5E12DC606AFB33C3AB61C92BB942F88

ETA: Change from paywall to abstract and open access.

 

"Longer spoken response"... Give me a break!

 

also if your response is very brief they say that you have emotional difficulties or something like that i cannot remember the actual term .

 

Heads they win, tails you lose?

 

Good old Catch-22 disease.

 

Abstract and full paper now available at link in original post, which was https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...c-risk-model/C5E12DC606AFB33C3AB61C92BB942F88

 

Relevance to ME can be seen as one of the references used to support this paragraph
"FCD have been described as a heterogeneous but overlapping set of clinical presentations which produce genuine cognitive symptoms that are internally inconsistent and not the direct result of brain disease; including memory symptoms in anxiety or depression; excessive attentional focus on everyday memory problems; health anxiety about dementia; and memory symptoms as part of another functional disorder. 4 , 5"

is this paper, A unifying theory for cognitive abnormalities in functional neurological disorders (2018), Mark J Edwards et al.

 

Is anyone allowed to be worried or anxious about anything at all these days, without being thought of as being mentally ill?

And yet, if I had a child who was suspected of having cancer, and I went out with a smile for everyone, cracked jokes, slept well, and was apparently as happy as Larry without a care in the world, I would be thought of as being completely weird by normal people, and the sick child with the suspected cancer will think I don't care about them at all. BPS and mental health treatment these days seems determined to make people act in a way that just isn't "normal"!

 

i think any socalled research paper that includes hads questionnaire is heavily skewed in favour of the researchers personal bias . making their papers worthless .