YES! This is exactly it.

This is fascinating! Will have to watch. Has also inspired me to create a new slide “depictions of FND in popular culture” for my upcoming lectures. Might help to build up a case for epistemic stigma and why it’s present.

This is far too binary?

I just hid my symptoms from then, as much as I could. I told everyone around me to never call an ambulance. For years I lived on welfare benefits trying my best to live some sort of life. We all deserve better.

These things are great! Saves me so much labour. Thank you 🙏

Thank you 🥰

I’ve had many therapists over the years and this type of working feels very alien.. but a breath of fresh air!

True. Great counter argument. Still not buying into this following train tho sorry 🫣

But don’t you then get a load of followers who aren’t interested in your content or voice? What are we here to do? Gain followers or have like minded conversations. I’d rather have 10 followers who engage with me than 100 that are only following me because I follow them. 🤷‍♀️

Thanks for sharing. It’s not fair that alongside a debilitating illness we also have to fight a broken system that tells us it’s not real. Leaving us doubting reality itself. You’re doing amazing. Gratitude got me through too.

Hopeuflly it’ll be abolished! Always felt it was reductive at best, but at worst possibly misleading. Another attempt to separate mind/brain?

Hello! I’m Shae and I’m a digital artist who only uses the oil paint brush. I have a print shop and might get into charms and other stuff. I’m a visually impaired FND advocate and my main career is as a paralegal.

I hope you can too. During my initial diagnosis I didn’t really have access to an FND community. Hopefully we can all help to ward off this baggage for you. The system does not support FND that’s the biggest problem - not FND patients.

Thanks so much Tom, Will give this a read!

Thank you. I think I’m finally starting to believe that I have nothing to be ashamed of. Isn’t therapy great 🙂

I think I may create a slide on this for my next GP trainees lecture. Seems like something they should be aware of!