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Sites for Epilepsy and Seizure Disorders
What the hell just happened? One minute you're sitting on the couch, trying to watch TV when your spouse / partner / significant other / parents / children / siblings / roommate / whomever starts in on a big, emotional and very stressful "discussion" (read one-way argument) with you. Then the TV sounds different. And things start to look weird. And the whole world has passed through the looking glass. Maybe one limb starts shaking. Maybe they all start shaking at once and you're flopping around, biting your tongue and pissing your pants. Or maybe you say something and repeat it over and over and over and over and over for a minute. Or two. Or five. Or maybe you get up and walk around in circles while repeating how you're garbage, garbage, garbage. Or maybe you start hitting the wall with your fist again and again until you punch a hole through it. Or maybe your muscles forget they have a skeleton to support and you become the human turd on the carpet. And when it's all over you're disoriented, words don't come out right, if at all. You feel hung-over in a way.
That's life in Epilepsyland. It's extremely weird. And people who don't live there have a really hard time understanding it. Maybe you're having a hard time understanding it. Here are some places to learn more about the high weirdness that is a seizure disorder.
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Epilepsy.com - Epilepsy 101 pure and simple. If nobody gave you anything beyond the sort of pamphlet Dr. Hibbert hands to one of the Simpons after a medical problem, if that, you should start here. There are better and more detailed sites I'm sure, but you have to start somewhere.
Epilepsy Foundation - Dealing with various epilepsy-related subjects such as holding down a job, stigma, relationships, age and gender specific issues. Probably the only place where you'll find a large, frank and open discussion of SUDEP.
The UK's National Society For Epilepsy's Guide to Epilepsy This fact-filled site is a wealth of information covering all the basics on diagnosis, treatments, day-to-day living, meds, common misconceptions, and dealing with dickweeds who are afraid of catching your brain cooties. There's also a site for physicians and other researchers, e-epilepsy with lots of data about European anticonvulsants. Put together by the UK's National Society for Epilepsy and sponsored by Sanofi-Synthelabo, this site is a treasure trove of hard data on anticonvulsants, especially anticonvulsants available only outside of the US. Once I get back to researching anticonvulsants, I'll be living on this site. Bonnie (Mandakay on Crazy Talk) for pointing me to this incredible site.
Shake That Seizure
"is a research and informative website for epileptics. The
purpose of the site is to discuss and study a potential relationship
between WEATHER and SEIZURES.
You'll also have a lot of luck hitting the sites that cover a little of everything.
Open Directory for Epilepsy - There are plenty here, including government and university research sites.
See also our page of support groups for epilepsy.
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Please, if you know of any sites with quality information about panic/anxiety spectrum disorders send me an e-mail to jerod23 at gmail dot com and I'll check them out. Even if you're starting your own let me know. There's no guarantee I'll list it, but you never know. English language is not a requirement. All I ask is that you don't have to register first to look at the site.
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Created Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Last updated Monday, September 26, 2011
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