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Catch It, Check It, Change It: A Simple Anxiety Tool for Life With Epilepsy
If you’ve ever sat in a waiting room right before your neurologist walks in and felt your whole body tense up before a single word gets said, you already know exactly what this post is...
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Living With Epilepsy and Bipolar Disorder: What Actually Helps
If you have epilepsy and you’ve also been diagnosed with something else, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, you are not the exception. You’re part of a pattern that doesn’t...
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Epilepsy: My Story
Epilepsy: My Story To a doctor, epilepsy is a neurological disorder marked by sudden episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions caused by abnormal electrical activity...
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Building Resilience: Mental Toughness Strategies for Long-term Epilepsy
Living with epilepsy is more than managing seizures—it’s a journey that demands emotional stamina, mental clarity, and inner strength. For people facing long-term epilepsy, resilience becomes...
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How to Explain Epilepsy and Mental Health Needs to Loved Ones
Living with epilepsy is more than managing seizures — it also means dealing with the emotional, social, and mental health challenges that come with it. Explaining all of this to loved ones can...
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How to Support Your Mental Health When Living with Epilepsy
Living with epilepsy means living with more than just seizures—mental and emotional wellness are an important part of the journey. From anxiety and depression to stress because of the unpredictability...
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What is Epilepsy to a patient

To a doctor epilepsy is a neurological disorder marked by sudden episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions caused by electrical abnormal activities in the brain. But what is Epilepsy to a patient? Before getting too far in, my name is John. I am a certified peer recovery specialist and a person who has dealt with epilepsy for the last 34 years.

Epilepsy: My Story

To a doctor, epilepsy is a neurological disorder marked by sudden episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions caused by abnormal electrical activity in the brain. But what is epilepsy to the person actually living it? I’m John. I’ve dealt with epilepsy for over three decades now — 21 years of active, unstoppable seizures, followed by 16 years and counting completely seizure-free.