STRESS – is it a main contributory factor?

Stress can have a massive impact on both a persons brain and body, I sufferer from a condition called Functional Movement Disorder.
This is a psychogenic neurological disorder, caused by past build up of life stresses that at a certain point made my brain in effect suddenly have a disconnection of the central nervous system.


It means now my brain does not send or receive signals to and from my body properly anymore, for the bodies movements to work correctly. My brain can misfire so make it move on its own giving me weird, odd movements out of my control, or does not move when I ask it to.

Stress is one of the factors in this disorder, and it is a little like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

We have to learn to have a life balance where we give ourselves a break from the daily stress that we all go through, and have to find a way to keep the balance right.

I know how hard that is believe me, but it is something that society needs to start to understand.

That people are not machines, we need rest and play as well as work.

There has always been the phrase around “Work, Rest & Play”.
Unfortunately it seems that now in the economic situation the world is in now, everybody is finding life more challenging to meet their bills. To put food into their families mouths, and to keep clothes on their kids back and a roof over their heads.

We don’t all need the latest gadgets, the new flat screen televisions, the latest craze or fashionable clothes. We just want to have a happy life, and I want to help people remember to live life with a smile.

STRESS - we have to learn to get it under control and go back to living instead of just existing. X

Functional Movement Disorder

Did You Know??

The Brain is made up of a Hundred Billion Neurons?

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All those neurons fire chemical responses to one another, sending requests for all our body movements.

The brain is the most fascinating part of the body, the one part we will probably never ever fully understand.

Functional Movement Disorder, is one of the one things that may never be understood.
Why the brain can suddenly have a disconnection in its central nervous system, why it no longer sends the brain signals properly anymore from one set of neurons.

How can those one set out of the hundred billion, ever be found? Ever be fixed?

Simple answer, they cannot. The brain is a wonderful thing though which has a life and existence unknown to us, as it can find its own way of repairing or going around and fixing certain problems all on its own.
But only for certain brain problems?

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This is what is called Brain Plasticity, where the brain in effect rewires itself.
This refers to changes in the neural pathways and synapses, which can have cellular changes and makes new brain pathways for the brain to try to learn to work again.

But hey, this is all rather involved! So we will talk about this another time.
Or you can check it out yourself in the meantime :)

Unexplained Psychological Illness Linked To Brain Abnormalities

A must read for any Psychogenic Disorder sufferers!

A very interesting piece in the Psych Central, regarding how the brain in psychological patients does actually change whilst having a psychogenic episode!

That the psychogenic function difference shows up on a PET Scan even whilst the patient is, or is not, having a psychogenic episode.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/02/27/unexplained-psychological-illness-linked-to-brain-abnormalities

Happy reading :)

Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

Information for all disabled people who claim benefits, and the new upcoming change to our DLA and Mobility benefits system payments with effect from 8th April 2013.

When will it effect you?

Claiming PIP
https://www.gov.uk/pip-checker
This is the link to check on when you may be effected by the new Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and when you can expect to have to reclaim for this instead of the old Disability Living Allowance (DLA) which is all changing this April 2013.

Here is the information given on the Government Website of what the rates are to be –
https://www.gov.uk/pip/what-youll-get

What you’ll get
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is paid every 4 weeks. It’s tax free and can be paid if you’re in or out of work.

It is made up of 2 components (parts). Whether you get 1 or both of these depends on how your condition affects you.

Daily living component
Daily living component Weekly rate
Standard £53.00
Enhanced £79.15

Mobility component
Mobility component Weekly rate
Standard £21.00
Enhanced £55.25