Misdiagnosis of an underlying medical condition as Conversion Disorder/Functional Neurological Disorder (CD/FND), 2020, van der Feltz-Cornelis et al

Paywall and first page preview, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0163834320300645
Not available via Sci hub at time of posting

 

Sounds interesting. There's not abstract but you can view the first page which reads:

 

Is it just me, or do people who experienced sexual abuse as children not have enough to cope with without being fobbed off with an FND diagnosis instead of having a proper suite of investigations when they get ill?

 

I think there needs to be a complete separation of true Conversion Disorder, psychogenic along the lines of a psychological trauma like sexual abuse as a child or being in a crappy war resulting in PTSD, from a functional neurological symptom disorder that may have no identifiable psychological or psychogenic causal factor, in other words a neurological disorder like MS, Parkinson's etc. which neurologists take responsibility for, and can bill for under insurance, rather than as they did with me and look at my movements as atypical and then refer me immediately to psychiatry to take their hands off my case or receive kickbacks from psychiatry because psychiatrists need all the more or less "normal" people to fill their caseloads and research agendas. As well, people with a traumatic brain injury who are long-haulers get dumped into this CD/FND category with a normal MRI and continuing symptoms but as a result of the TBI are now a psychiatric case within the DSM so that when they go to the ER for some other ailment, psychiatric disorder is there on the chart right there in print. Ridiculous.