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 of when a seizure will happen. With the mental health side of epilepsy often going unspoken. The truth is, your mind needs as much care […]
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Top stress-relief products for epilepsy management Epilepsy is a neurological disorder in the brain that causes a person to have seizures. There are two types of seizures generalized seizures and focal seizures. The highest trigger for epilepsy is sleep deprivation followed by in second in stress. I have had seizures triggered by stress.We all have
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Managing Personal Care After Seizures (Disclosure: There are affiliate links on my content, I may earn a small commission if you purchase through these links at no additional cost to you. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.) Managing personal care after seizures is difficult and frustrating. In ways, people wouldn’t understand. Let’s
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epilepsy and FND As people, like me, who are diagnosed with epilepsy we know the symptoms and side effects of the seizures and the medicine we take. But what if a loved one you know has FND (functional nerve disorder) and their episodes are just like your tonic-clonic (grand mal) seizures? Let us go over
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Regenerative Cells and Epilepsy What do regenerative cells and epilepsy have to do with each other? In the last decade, there has been a breakthrough in mankind’s ability with regenerative cells. With epilepsy, they have studies of regenerative cells and ways to use regenerative cells to help deal with anti-medicine and anti-surgery treatment epilepsy seizures.
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cannabis and Epilepsy In the small town I grew up in, the older generation smoked cannabis, or what they called pot all the time to help them relax after long days of work. As a teenager, I even tried some myself to help cope with my epilepsy, but it wasn’t till I was a young
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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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