If any other branch of medicine tried to suggest that 30-50% of their patients who had involuntary physical signs/symptoms were suffering from psychiatric problems they would be vilified or fired!!

Not only that, this determination is made on the basis of absolutely no evidence base or objective testing. The neurologists claim there is nothing physically wrong with these people because their tests show normal results. However, they expect everyone to unquestioningly accept that there is something psychologically wrong in the absence of any testing at all.

They have used this baseless diagnostic process and been proved wrong time and again as medical science and testing has advanced and it has become apparent that there is an underlying physical cause for neurological conditions. One might think that this would breed a rather more cautious approach to avoid inevitable, future "red faced embarrassment" but it seems to have the opposite effect.

It is an affront to logic and common sense which is compounded by the fact that all the attempts to define or describe what functional/conversion etc disorders actually are have completely failed. It would by laughable if it wasn't such a personal disaster for so many people.

The whole situation is absolutely perverse and its a shameful scandal.