April 2016

Pseudoseizures, the bias held by some health professionals and this really has to stop!

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Warning: the content in this blog post may be upsetting and hurtful to the reader-it contains insulting and coarse language found on-line describing patients with PNES   For a few months three of us have been working on a project examining how often PNES (and all the other names that this condition goes by) appears …

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Book recommendation: Guises of Desire is the beautifully told story of one of the best known patients with a psychogenic and dissociative disorder

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The time and place: Vienna, Austria in the 1800’s.  The main character of the story is real: Bertha Pappenheim (AKA Anna O). In Guises of Desire, the author, Hilda Reilly, recounts Bertha’s intense years living with these psychogenic symptoms using a wonderful combination of solid research and imagination.  Ms. Reilly descriptions of Bertha’s variety of …

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Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) in children and adults were presented at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) annual conference

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Although there are estimates that suggest that PNES is more prevalent than multiple sclerosis (MS), it is far likelier that someone will have heard of MS than of PNES. Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures are still a long way from where this disorder needs to be in terms of what health professionals know about it and what …

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