Functional illness – Dr Rod’s Odd Blog (almondemotion)

Confusion Screen

In today’s blog Rod tried to explain what he meant when he wanted to say something was to complicated to be summarised by the word ‘screen’

Function versus behaviour

Nothing works with Florence, distraction, diversion, joking, cajoling, all the old tropes fail. You have to accept that Florence isn’t eating and leave her alone.

Don’t call my symptoms mild!

I don’t think we can banish these terms (unlike sufferer, which yes, should be binned)

‘Behavioural’

Just as with suffering, it is not something that can be measured and compared, it isn’t absolute, it is relative like everything else in the universe.