Epilepsy Awareness November is a good time of the year, you can recover from all the candy you have eaten because of Halloween and tricker treating, see family and friends on Thanksgiving, and for people who like to shop Black Friday, Shop Local Saturday, and Cyber Monday too. But it is a great month because […]
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How your mental health affect your physical health and ways to improve it In an article I wrote previously, I talked about how exercise can help with your mental health but then the question of, how it affects your physical health and how you can improve it. Today I will go over how your mental
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Belief What was the belief of epilepsy if you go back in time? And what is the scientific reality of epilepsy nowadays? If you research back to ancient times, you will find that epilepsy was believed to be a possession or an attack on people by demons. Babylonian In 1050 BC the Babylonians (located in
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Photosensitivity Even as a person with epilepsy since the age of 8, I still did not find out I had photosensitivity until I was around 24. For me, I had gone to concerts, played video games, and gone to haunted mazes and houses most of my childhood and never had a problem. But one Halloween
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Video Games & Mental Health The best studies on video games & mental health help us understand how video games affect your mental health. These are great questions and documents if you are a gamer of any kind. How video games affect mental health is a subject most people don’t know or even think of
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7 things to know about Siezure-alert dogs Not too long ago, I posted an article https://weirdmindwarrior.com/mental-health-benefits-of-owning-a-dog/ about the positive effects dogs have on mental health but what about seizure-alert dogs and how they help people with epilepsy? As an 8-year-old I had my first Grand Mal seizure. Nowadays they call it a Tonic-Clonic seizure. Most
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Exercise to help your mental health Every year you have your summer with new goals. With goals of all kinds. Mine is my mental health. But part of me wonders how a summer goal to exercise to help your mental health really works. As a person with pre-existing conditions that will never fully heal. I
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Mental health benefits of owning a dog I had never gone to the Humane Society to adopt and rescue a pet before, and of course, I am not an expert on training dogs or what products to use. But my dog Louie I got from the Scott County humane society was one of the best
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Wellness tools & coping skills While being a peer support specialist and a person who has dealt with epilepsy for the last 34 years I learned about wellness tools & coping skills and the difference between the two. The tools I am talking about are tools you use to cope with trauma-causing events and situations
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mental health and Epilepsy Your mental health and Epilepsy can have a relationship. Things such as depression are very common in people diagnosed with epilepsy. But my name is John, and I am a certified peer recovery specialist and have dealt with epilepsy for the last 34 years of my life. There are many possible
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