FND Proponent Perspective
Posts, commentary, or contributions presenting the views of clinicians, researchers, patients, or others who broadly accept or advocate for the current FND diagnostic framework.
The Emotional Processing Theory of FND: Eight Years Later, Where Is the Proof?
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A 2019 review proposed that abnormal emotional processing could generate functional neurological symptoms. Nearly eight years later, its central causal mechanism remains unvalidated. We examine the original research, its acknowledged weaknesses, and what subsequent studies have actually established.
FND, Compensation and the Convenient Theory That Financial Support Keeps People Disabled
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A 2026 Frontiers in Neurology review explores whether compensation, litigation and financial support can reinforce FND disability. But where is the evidence that paying injured people keeps them sick, and what happens when speculative theories influence legal liability?
The Weaponization of FND: Selma Blair, MS, and Hysteria With Better Branding
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An FND-focused healthcare professional accuses Selma Blair of seeking sympathy, questions her MS history using dancing videos and declares her symptoms textbook FND. Apparently, hysteria got a rebrand, not a retirement.
When Ignorance Becomes a Diagnosis: FND Experts Warn of Diagnostic Failure
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FND researchers acknowledge that weak functional signs lack specificity, neurologists disagree, and unfamiliar diseases risk being labelled functional. The diagnostic problem is hiding in plain sight.
FND Hope's Founder, a Misdiagnosis, and Sneddon's Syndrome
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FND treatment is built around assumptions about why symptoms occur. But what happens when those assumptions are wrong? Bridget Mildon's Sneddon's syndrome and Rebel's later ALS diagnosis raise an uncomfortable patient-safety question: how safe is mechanism-specific treatment when the mechanism itself remains uncertain?
Inside the Reasoning of an FND Professional
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We examined repeated public claims about FND made by an allied health professional who treats the disorder for a living. Some are supported by the literature. Others go much further than the evidence allows. The recurring problem is simple: evidence seems much better at confirming FND than disproving it.
Jo Puckett's FND Story in the Daily Mail: Questions Worth Asking
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A Daily Mail article about Jo Puckett's experience with FND raises questions about diagnostic certainty, psychological distress, medical dismissal and the difference between wanting answers and wanting to remain ill.
My daughter
I would like to share my daughter’s story and what Functional Neurological Disorder has done to her life over the past three years.Before FND, my daughter was a creative, talented teenager who loved music, performing, makeup and hair. She had dreams for
What I Wish I Knew When I First Got Diagnosed With FND
I was diagnosed with FND 2 years ago, with symptoms first appearing 3-4 years ago. I am a female in my 20s. Here are a few things I wish I knew when I first got diagnosed (these are all just my opinions based on my experience, they are not facts)clinician
Functional Disorders are real
The biggest misconception out there is that someone can’t have a functional disorder if they also have an organic medical disease, disorder, or condition. The reality, of course, is that very, very rarely do functional disorders develop without an underly
