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writing a book

Thu, 02/15/2018 - 23:39
hello everyone i am writing a book and wanted some people to tell me some questions that people want answered or questions you have been asked or anything else to do with epilepsy because i am having a bit of writers block i hope you can help thanks

Comments

Of the many comments that

Submitted by birdman on Fri, 2018-02-16 - 21:35
Of the many comments that people have made over the years regarding my epilepsy the one that probably disturbs me the most has to do with other peoples' limited perception that epilepsy means seizures.  Yes I still do have seizures but I wish others could understand that epilepsy is much more than a "seizure disorder".I read a neat quote from David Taylor in a large medical book, The Treatment of Epilepsy; Principles and Practice that goes:There are three components of epilepsy:Disease--the underlying processIllness--the clinical manifestationsPredicament--It's not the environment but how one is placed in the environment, their context, the sense in which they are understood.  I wish you well in conveying the predicament of living with epilepsy.

thank you for your help i am

Submitted by i-want-to-prove-the-world-wrong on Sat, 2018-02-17 - 02:18
thank you for your help i am writing this book as a way to explain to  people my story and so they can understand that epilepsy is not  just seizures and all this other stuff it can effect them in so many ways for example i dont have grand mal seizures but i have multi focal epilepsy and i have seizures every ten seconds bu people think im fine because they dont notice or see them

thank you for your help i am

Submitted by i-want-to-prove-the-world-wrong on Sat, 2018-02-17 - 03:11
thank you for your help i am writing this book as a way to explain to  people my story and so they can understand that epilepsy is not  just seizures and all this other stuff it can effect them in so many ways for example i dont have grand mal seizures but i have multi focal epilepsy and i have seizures every ten seconds bu people think im fine because they dont notice or see them

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