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This Is Your Life

01/2005 | 3 Comments

________________________________________Disorders creates obstacles,Inner emotions feeling as though it is difficult to focus on the things that mean...
EEEKKKSSS - post ictal posting!

01/2005 | 3 Comments

Okay, WELL, this is the second time on this site I've had to hippity hop back to the post I put up because I recovered enough to realize that I had...
Getting On with Your Life

01/2005 | 0 Comments

By Stacey Chillemi Living with a Disability, Everyday of your Life is Tough. Living with a disability, every day of your life is tough. For many who...
The Journey

01/2005 | 1 Comments

As we wake up each morning to venture a new challenge,The beauty of life awaits us,Look inside yourself and listen to what your heart desires,If you...
What motivated me to become a writer

01/2005 | 6 Comments

My inspiration to want to change the worldI got epilepsy at the age of five. I had contracted a sore throat and an ear infection. My mother had...
Support Groups?

01/2005 | 1 Comments

Has anyone been to support groups? If so has it been beneficial? I'm a mother of a new diagonosed 16 year old son. His first seizure was in July (the...
Philosophy of Survival

01/2005 | 0 Comments

The past is no longer here,Your epilepsy is now a part of you,The present is today,Survival of the fittest,This means accepting your disorder,Loving...
Philosophy of Survival

01/2005 | 0 Comments

The past is no longer here,Your epilepsy is now a part of you,The present is today,Survival of the fittest,This means accepting your disorder,Loving...
DEVELOPING HIGH SELF ESTEEM

01/2005 | 7 Comments

By Stacey Chillemi High self-esteem-like having money-something we think everyone else has but us. Yet having low self-esteem is perhaps the most...
Choice of Clinic - Anywhere

01/2005 | 4 Comments

Hi!If the choice of the clinic is anywhere in the world, I have to recommend the clinic where I receive treatment. That is Scripps Green Hospital...
Epilepsy Your Not Alone

01/2005 | 0 Comments

In college I was struggling coping with my own epilepsy disorder. At that time their were not many books on epilepsy. I was really upset at that time...
Moving Ahead With Your Life

01/2005 | 9 Comments

Living with a disability, every day of your life is tough. For many who have a disability they tend to hold their emotions inside. The emotions that...
Loving Yourself

01/2005 | 1 Comments

Life should feel as you would feel waking up on a sunny day,Feeling the warmth of the sun as the sunlight peers through the window shades.It is a...
Educational Resources

01/2005 | 0 Comments

Epilepsy.com has just added a valuable and dynamic new section called the Resource Library: http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/resource_library.html All...
Anyone with Questions about the VNS

01/2005 | 10 Comments

In a few days I will be attending a patient education program for people with seizure disorders and their families. Feature topic: Treatment-Resistant...
Sorry - erased post

01/2005 | 0 Comments

I'm sorry. I was in the stinking pitty pot and posted a LONG posting about the disastrous office party I was forced to go to. It felt good to get it...
Altitude induced seizures

01/2005 | 6 Comments

I can't find the post someone asked about sz's and altitude, so I'm starting a new thread. Someone asked if being in or maybe it was moving to higher...
a word of thanks

01/2005 | 4 Comments

I just wanted to send a note saying thank you to everyone who replied to my inquiry. You are really an awesome collection of people. It's been...

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