How many people with PNES have a history of trauma? An interesting article was published in the Journal Epilepsy and Behavior ( 2004) by Fiszman et. al. It reviewed 17 PNES studies and found that traumatic events and PTSD in persons with PNES were very common. Depending on the study: 44-100% of PNES patients had […]
Does it matter what we call PNES? In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliette, she said: What’s in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet… Similarly, as kids we were taught: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. What do these two
Psychogenic, pseudo, psychological: why does PNES have so many names? Read More »
Now that you have the right diagnosis, you are finally going to be able to move in the right direction.
Now that you’ve been told you have PNES—What’s the next step? Read More »
You’ve certainly been dealt a real challenge. Why? Because PNES is a very complicated psychological condition that seems to defy logic. There are however some promising treatments. We only need to figure out who they will serve best. In my opinion, the biggest problem lies in that we may be lumping different conditions into one single
So you’ve been told you have PNES – What’s that? Read More »
