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by OJFord 1293 days ago
Both thanks, not that it's any of your business.

Panic attacks are a symptom, not a diagnosis.

'All in your head' is an expression; one I perhaps should have avoided, obviously there are ailments located in the head that have a 'real' cause.

Panic attacks I suppose may present in 'functional' patients, but there are physiological causes too.

Anyway, I didn't really make any sort of comment on FND itself or patients with that diagnosis, I didn't say 'they just need to pull themselves together' or whatever. I just commented on the way the article was written, that it didn't seem like the author understood.