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The 3 Lines in ‘Doctor Strange’ That Floored Me as Someone With PTSD
What Life with Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures is Like
“You don’t have real seizures. Nobody in the neurology arena can help you. You have a mental health condition, not a real one.” My life was rocked in 2013 with those exact words. I had just spent three days in the hospital, where my seizures were being monitored by video and by brain wave …
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Did we overcome and shall we now thrive
On the very first day of the year, I made a declaration: I will not be overcome any circumstance, no matter how much it just plain sucks I was speaking of my seizures, and I made a promise to myself and to you that I would not be the victim of my condition any longer. Even if nothing changed in …
Returning to the Scene of the…Seizure
Last summer we got season passes to the local waterslide park. It was loads of fun, and everyone really enjoyed being able to go once or twice a week, until Cynthia had a seizure about two stories up on the stairs to a large waterslide. Then things got weird for me. Every time I got to the landing …