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8 Oct

Mark Micale’s paper “On the ‘Disappearance’ of Hysteria” is a very neat piece of scholarship I do not agree with at all.

Here’s why it’s useful, and an alternate perspective.

So to start with, Micale is a historian who has done some very interesting work examining historical sources about “Hysteria”, the grossly-named disorder we now know as FND.

This particular paper, like his book “Hysterical Men”, is agnostic about what Hysteria “really is.” For the most part, he doesn’t really deal w that question.

What he examines is what people THOUGHT Hysteria was, and how they got there.

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30 Aug

Hello, here’s a rambling thread-under-construction about my understanding of Functional Neurological Disorder 👇

what is it? what isn’t it?

Normally I plan these things out but not today. So we’ll do a bit at a time and I’ll try to notate the breaks. Ok. Let’s get started!

Functional Neurological Disorder is a kind of health problem that involves both subjective disturbances (like pain, blindness, numbness, tingling)

and objective dysfunction (weakness, paralysis, seizures, etc)

it is also the subject of ~400 years of medical debate

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31 May

I can’t even say what I think about what’s going on right now. I am so angry.

Let me instead offer a thread of writings that have helped me understand how we got here.

Please take some time to read some of it, for the sake of your fellow humans.

Let’s start with one of the most essential reads of the Trump era

amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/57…

One thing to know is that police brutality against Black people in America isn’t new

smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-in…

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1 Apr

It’s World FND month!

We’re also about to experience a global pandemic unprecedented in our lifetimes!

So why should you care about Functional Neurological Disorder?

👇👀

This thread isn’t meant to take away from the current focus on COVID-19. It’s an extremely dangerous development and it’s of course right that we take it seriously and prioritize it as we’re doing. 👍

But if you have room for something that looks grim at first but turns out to be an opportunity for positive change...

You might want to check this out.

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4 Jan

https://twitter.com/davidtuller1/status/1213518599018565633

So here’s a potentially productive conversation:

is Functional Neurological Disorder really a structural disorder or a functional one?

Should it be considered “psychological”?

Do we even know what it is?

(thread)

https://twitter.com/davidtuller1/status/1213518599018565633

To respond to Dr Tuller’s first question: how is FND different from other neurological disorders?

In some ways, it’s not! It creates real disability, with symptoms often comparable to other neuro disorders like MS, and the source of that dysfunction is the brain.

This is part of why some patients have argued against an exclusively psychological formulation: because it’s not just a subjective belief that you have, say, a gait disorder. You actually do.

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