Talking it out about...

5 things I have used to build self esteem. This is just five of the ways I have been working on building my self esteem, I am not a master at them all but I am making progress in every step.

In this episode you hear Ze in her current ‘potato’ state, we discuss the importance of routine and structure.

I am joined by the lovely Charlotte who is at the beginning of her journey with FND, we talk symptoms, managing symptoms and depression. We also have invented a new game of is it the internet or is it the FND?

We chat about ways to manage FND including but not limited to mindfulness and pets, use of words like trauma and triggers and anything other randomness we can get distracted into.

We have a general chat and catch up, you can hear the speech difficulties with FND symptoms that are appearing. We discuss what things have stuck with people in the diagnosis process as well.

In this episode I chat to Melanie about our time together in the unit. We were there at the same time and she helps me start to remember a bit about my time there. We reflect on what we learnt and our joint and separate experiences of our three week inpatient stay to make the 2 year anniversary since we both left.

In this episode we discuss safety behaviours, what they are, how they work and we do them. I am set a challenge to try and tackle mine.

In this episode you can hear the inner workings of two people with FND. I was joined by Hannah for a chat about her experiences with FND with her diagnosis 12 years ago.

In this episode I chat to a clinical psychologist all about FND, as a FND awareness day special

This episode we continue our conversation of dissociative disorder and treatments. You get to hear first hand the dissociation as well.