text: Hello.\nI am a doctor with dystonia, and I have passed it along to at least one of my kids.  Your cousing could be helped, and should be helped; but she needs psych help with facing this stigmatized disorder.  Dystonia is a strange dz in that it causes great family shame.  I know this 1st hand as my wife is having a hard time facing our reality.  I have 3 other children who are at risk.  Tell your cousin you love her; give her some articles on Botox, and tell her that there are people risking their entire careers on creating new solutions for her and her son.        FYI, I have closed my cardiology practice to invent new treatments for movement disorder pts.  There is great potential to help your cousin and her son.  I am working on a form of gene therapy as well as a novel and noninvasive manner to rewire the abnormal brain circuitry.      Best of luck.  Ross