Patients with functional disorders, including dissociative (non-epileptic) seizures (also called psychogenic non-epileptic seizures), are often considered ‘difficult to help’ by neurologists [1]. There is evidence that consultations in which neurologist explain this diagnosis are often challenging for doctor and patient [2,3]. A range of different issues can contribute to these difficulties. These include factors pertaining to doctors, such as problems communicating the diagnosis, ambivalent attitudes towards the diagnosis, issues around raising the relevance of psychological factors in relation to a condition presenting with physical symptoms, and the lack of services for further treatment [4,5].
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