Patient understanding of the new diagnosis is crucial for their treatment, which requires their active participation. There are a number of recommended steps to explain to people their diagnosis in a sensitive and open manner. A negative diagnosis experience may cause frustration and could cause a person to reject any further attempts at treatment. Eight points recommended to explain the diagnosis to the person and their caregivers are: # Reasons for concluding they do not have epilepsy # What they do have (describe FND) # Emphasize they are not suspected of "putting on" the attacks, and the symptoms are not "all in their head" # There may be no triggering "stresses" # Maintaining factors # May improve after correct diagnosis # Caution that anticonvulsant drug withdrawal should be done in conjunction with their physician # Describe treatment to help regain control of symptoms Psychotherapy is the most frequently used treatment, which might include cognitive behavioral therapy or therapy to retrain the physical symptoms and allow the individual to regain control of the attacks (ReACT). There is also some evidence supporting selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants. Cognitive behavioral therapy Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) treatments for<unk>  typically target fear avoidance and work to reattribute patients' symptoms to psychosocial issues. Retraining and Control Therapy (ReACT) ReACT, while new and understudied, has shown extremely promising outcomes for reduction of<unk>  episodes in pediatric patients. This therapy focuses on the idea that<unk>  are caused by a learned physical reaction or habit the body develops, similar to a reflex. ReACT aims to retrain the learned reaction <unk>  episodes) by targeting symptom catastrophizing and restoring sense of control over symptoms.
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizure
Status epilepticus
Post-traumatic seizure
Seizure
Musicogenic seizure
Non-epileptic seizure
Reflex seizure
Febrile seizure