The Seven Steps of Accepting Your Diagnosis
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The Seven Steps of Accepting Your Diagnosis

ByAlison Hayes

As I have mentioned in previous posts, accepting your diagnosis isn’t as easy as it may first sound. For most people, there’s a fair amount of time between when symptoms first occur and when they know what is actually happening inside their bodies. There also is definitely a sense of loss involved in really recognizing…

Accepting my Functional Neurological Disorder diagnosis
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Accepting my Functional Neurological Disorder diagnosis

ByAlison Hayes

April is FND Awareness Month, and April 13 is FND Awareness Day. I’m going all in on that, and I’ll be focusing this post and month on the process of accepting your diagnosis—and illustrating it with my FND experiences (and what I’ve picked up from fellow FNDers inside of discussion groups). I’m also using A…