Rachael Dodd has functional neurological disorder (FND): a modern hysteria at the centre of a medical misogyny Venn diagram.
Centuries ago, doctors may have said Rachael had ‘hysteria’. They still aren’t sure what causes her conditionRachael Dodd sat at her desk, staring at her computer screen as random letters in the body of an email vanished from sight.
Her “big episode” came two months later. As Dodd sat on her couch, she felt her right side grow heavy and called for her husband, who found her slumped over. The right side of her face drooping. Dodd couldn’t move her right arm or leg. She was slurring and stuttering, unable to form sentences. “There is so much stigma for people with FND,” said UNSW senior neuropsychiatrist Dr Adith Mohan, who leads the Mindgardens FND clinic at Prince of Wales Hospital.
“One moment I’m fine, and the next I’ve lost function down my right side and have to sit there,” she said.
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