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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How to Build a Supportive Daily Routine with Epilepsy Suppose you are like me and live with epilepsy. You know it is hard and trying to have a basic peaceful day-to-day life is challenging. But in this article, I am going over how to build a supportive daily routine with epilepsy. A daily routine can
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3 New Year’s goals for your Mental health It is a new year, and I am going to be working on one of the most important things in a person’s life, my mental health. Out of all the goals I could choose from here are the 3 New Year’s goals for your mental health I
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Key things to know about winter depression Welcome to the wonderful winter weather of the year and to some welcome winter depression. Now the question is what is winter depression? How does it affect you? And how do you cope with it? Key things to know about winter depression can help in recovering from winter
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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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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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