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Functional / Dissociative Symptoms

Treatment

This section is divided as follows

1. Understanding your condition

2. How can exercise and physiotherapy help?

3. What role can psychology and psychiatry have? I'm not crazy so why would it help to see them?

4. Medication

5. Specific techniques for:

Patients with dissociative seizures / non-epileptic attacks (2 pages on this)

Patients with functional weakness

Patients with functional tremor / fixed dystonia 

6. How to deal with family / friends / work and what to tell them

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Functional and Dissociative Neurological Symptoms : a patient's guide

  • Welcome
  • Symptoms
  • Causes
  • In the mind?
  • Misdiagnosis?
  • Treatment
    • Treatment Overview
    • Understanding it
    • Physio / Exercise
    • Psychology? I'm not crazy
    • Medication
    • Family and Work
    • Investigations
    • Seizure treatment
    • Seizure treatment 2
    • Weakness
    • Tremor / Spasms
    • "Nothing helps"
  • Feedback
  • Stories
  • Links Downloads

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