@katcollins I can’t believe a doctor would tell you that. FMD never really goes away on its own and, as in my case, the longer it goes on, the worse it gets. And, I’ve tried a number of meds and failed — one (Primidone) put me in a fugue state 5 days in a row until I figured it out.

I realize that many people don’t like or believe in the Internal Family Systems model, but I have seen in work in my FMD. I have tremors and body shaking and jerking, especially when I’m stressed. I have experienced IFS work in calming at least the shaking.

For example,, I was watching a movie a couple of weeks ago which got a little scary and my head jerking started up. I stopped the movie briefly, and went into a quick ‘session’ with the child part who was getting scared. I approached the part with calm and caring, telling her that she could go rest somewhere until the movie was over. My head jerking stopped immediately and I finished the movie.

IFS isn’t the gift wrapped cure for FMD. I still have head jerking and tremors regardless of my parts, but a lot of the jerking is now calm because I can talk to the traumatized parts.