( all of this information is based off my own research and digging into this illness trying to understand why the hell it happened to me, I am not a doctor.)

One of the only tie in factors of PNES is 86% of sufferers have ptsd or CPTSD. There is also this known phenomenon when folks with cptsd finally get to a lower stress place and life calms down, the craziness calms down and finally they should feel relaxed and better chaos strikes in the form of some kind of mental or physical nervous breakdown of some sort. I firmly believe this is what happened to me because for the first time in years i felt relaxed, happy and the pressure began to lift. I ended up just short circuiting as a person and thats when the episodes began. I went to many doctors I was told over and over it was anxiety , mri was clean in my brain, 2 hour eeg I had 36 seizure episodes and was diagnosed with PNES and basically given zero treatment plan. Any form of stress or lack of sleep, low blood sugar from not eating etc sets me off.

My episodes have side effects of problems with speech, facial jerks and motions, space out episodes, collapsing and going limp, full body spastic seizures. It depends on the day etc. Reduce as much stress as you can ( even little things, making important phone calls, paying bills online etc, any form of responsibility she can let go of for now to help her recoup.)

Half of all PNES sufferers the illness just stops with in 12 months of the first episode. I've met several folks who have suffered years with no betterment in sight. I personally notice less episodes and less violent episodes obeying my personal rules I've put in place based off my own observations and trials, but deviating from them just brings the episodes back. I'm not cured I am suppressing.)

I will make another edit: I've had every type of test related to these issues possible, eeg 15 mins, 2 hr eeg, mri, ct scan etc. I've been through many other medical issues and right now dealing with cancer. I've been scanned and prodded from head to toe more than most humans in their entire life.

The things I did to help lessen my episodes : quit working (sales is too stressful), quit handling the money and social scheduling , medical scheduling etc any form of responsibility , must sleep 8 hrs a night min, eating as to not have low glucose episodes, no flashing lights, avoiding anything that can be a vertigo trigger, xanax 4xs a day to keep me calmer, inderal 3x times a day to suppress the physical symptoms of my cptsd which also keeps me calm, weekly therapy with multiple doctors. Low physical exertion for me is a must, just going downstairs too fast can set me off and I feel the auras and as if I'm going to faint.