FND and resilience

[Lady4]

During my further education on autism and FND, I came across this article:

Resilience linked to personality dimensions, alexithymia and affective symptoms in motor functional neurological disorders:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/295...

I haven't read the full text, but as the conclusion mentioned possible reduced resilience in patients with FND (previous to that I was researching alexithymia), I went on to find further information and found to this download for three resilience exercises:

positivepsychology.com/conn...

I find with FND additional stresses can make symptoms worse and therefore building up our resilience (or resilience of your loved one) can only be a positive thing.

Naturally, I have read through all the exercises and I am keen to go through one with my son.

Basically, the first one goes on about learning to see closed doors not as a negative but as a positive. One door closes another one opens.

The second is all about core values.

And the third is, probably the more common one used, the Four S's - support (those that kept you upright), strategies (that kept you moving), sagacity (that gave you comfort and hope), solution-seeking (behaviours you showed).

[bookish]

Hi, regarding autism and neurological symptoms, you may find this interesting b12oils.com/b2.htm A deficiency in vit B2 and cofactors can cause both functional B6 and B12 deficiencies which may be hard to spot. A serum B12 test alone certainly cannot rule out a deficiency (as serum may show high in functional B vitamin deficiencies anyway and testing has many flaws), B6 is rarely tested and the same with B2. The importance of functioning B vitamins cannot be overstated and the lack of information on the FND Hope site concerns me. Best wishes

[Lady4 in reply to bookish]

Thanks, I guess I need to research private testing.