Pharma Sutra

1 hour ago FND Nope Moderator

Marion Brown, a retired Scottish psychotherapist and friend of this website, has spent years exposing how antidepressant withdrawal and adverse drug reactions can be overlooked, dismissed, or misdiagnosed as Functional Neurological Disorder and medically unexplained symptoms. We examine her research, parliamentary advocacy, and the patient experiences behind her work.

1 day ago FND Nope Moderator

Psychiatrist David Healy challenges the use of FND diagnoses in patients experiencing persistent medication-related neurological symptoms, warning that drug toxicity can be overlooked, patients dismissed and potentially harmful treatments repeated.

2 weeks ago Quackademic

David Healy's warning that drug toxicity can disappear behind an FND diagnosis has provoked predictable criticism. But much of the response confuses how FND is supposed to be diagnosed with how it is actually diagnosed. The literature itself shows misdiagnosis, overdiagnosis and diagnostic overshadowing occur. You can dislike Healy's language. You still have to answer his argument.

2 months ago Con Bradley

I was diagnosed with FND. Saw a neurologist and he said you must stop taking Keppra as it causes depression and anxiety and start on an alternative anti-seizure drug. I left with a step down plan and guess what, the depression and anxiety has gone.

1 year ago Christoff Spousal caregiver

Interestingly psychopharmacological influences (how drugs affect the mind and behaviour) are known to produce neurological symptoms.