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Sharing public X posts and discussions involving Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), including diagnosis, misdiagnosis, uncertainty, recovery, criticism, and diagnoses discovered later. Posts are shared to encourage open discussion, critical enquiry, and a better understanding of the experiences and debates surrounding FND.
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Posts exploring how an FND diagnosis may influence subsequent clinical reasoning, potentially leading symptoms, findings, or alternative diagnoses to be overlooked, discounted, or insufficiently investigated.
Janet Dafoe on FND: "Where the Sun Don’t Shine"
1 month ago
ME/CFS advocate and psychologist Janet Dafoe has criticised psychosomatic explanations of poorly understood illness for years. In 2026, that criticism turned directly to FND, raising questions about diagnostic certainty, ME/CFS, Long COVID and what happens when uncertainty becomes a diagnosis.
ALS or FND? The Troubling Case of Tanea "Rebel" Brooks
4 months ago
Tanea "Rebel" Brooks has faced a devastating battle with lymphoma and a terminal ALS diagnosis. This piece explores her difficult medical journey and raises the question I’ve been wondering about: Could Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) be playing a role in misdiagnosis or diagnostic confusion?
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