Functional Neurological Disorder can be triggered by physical or mental stressors (or both).
One thing to keep in mind re: epidemiology of FND in the military: consider early life as well.
Many people join the military to improve their life from an already tough situation.
One thing to keep in mind re: epidemiology of FND in the military: consider early life as well.
Many people join the military to improve their life from an already tough situation.
https://twitter.com/afhsbpage/status/1367467363013115909
That’s not everybody, obviously. People join for lots of reasons. But it’s a not-insignificant number. For many people, military = opportunity they otherwise wouldn’t have
Anyway, the longer I get to spend digging into FND research, the more I appreciate the Keynejad et al paper, which @Tim_R_Nicholson summarized as people often needing “multiple hits” for FND symptoms to spark...
... whether it be injury, stress, trauma, lack of sleep, chronic pain, genetic factors etc.
A combination of things that pushes the brain off-balance, and then the brain is like “oh so this is what we’re doing now”, rather than reverting back to normal
A combination of things that pushes the brain off-balance, and then the brain is like “oh so this is what we’re doing now”, rather than reverting back to normal
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