{"id":2006,"date":"2021-04-23T07:12:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T07:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ftd.cognihealth.in\/?page_id=2006"},"modified":"2024-06-14T14:19:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T14:19:33","slug":"what-can-i-do-to-help-myself-if-im-waiting-for-treatment-or-not-having-treatment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/neurosymptoms.org\/en\/faq-2\/what-can-i-do-to-help-myself-if-im-waiting-for-treatment-or-not-having-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"What can I do to help myself if I'm waiting for treatment or not having treatment?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I know that many people with FND are either waiting for long periods of time to see someone for treatment, or are not having treatment at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some people with FND may have reached a point where they are &#8216;self-managing&#8217; and althought they would rather not have the symptoms, they understand that this is how things are, at least for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For other people, especially those first diagnosed, it is incredibly frustrating to be trying to improve the condition on your own. I know that this site is not enough for that situation, but I hope it can help a little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is information throughout the website that may be of some help to you but here are some tips to make the most of it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Dont be too hard on yourself! Many people with FND tend to give themselves a really hard time for all kinds of reasons. Improving FND often means making time to be kinder to yourself. <\/li><li>Perhaps start with some introductory videos to help you understand FND. You can see them on this <a href=\"http:\/\/media\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"media\">page<\/a>.<\/li><li>Read about the FND symptoms you have (and not the ones you don&#8217;t)<\/li><li>Have you talked about this diagnosis with your family or friends? Would that help you? <\/li><li>If you have motor symptoms like limb weakness or walking problems read through the advice on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neurosymptoms.org\/en_US\/treatment-2\/physiotherapy-exercise\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"633\">physiotherapy page<\/a>. There is a document there made for physiotherapists to help them understand FND. You might find it helpful to see whats written there &#8211; or perhaps share it with your physiotherapist if they arent confident about FND.<\/li><li>If you are having functional seizure\/blackouts then there is some information about how begin thinking about your seizures, and the kinds of techniques that are used to help people get control of them  on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neurosymptoms.org\/en_US\/treatment-2\/treatment-of-dissociative-attacks\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"649\">this page<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>I know that many people with FND are either waiting for long periods of time to see someone for treatment, or are not having treatment at all. <\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Some people with FND may hav&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1654,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-template\/faq-details-template.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neurosymptoms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neurosymptoms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neurosymptoms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neurosymptoms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neurosymptoms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/neurosymptoms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14554,"href":"https:\/\/neurosymptoms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2006\/revisions\/14554"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neurosymptoms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neurosymptoms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}