Living with Seizures

I’m 26 years old and I started having seizures about a year ago, for whatever reason the doctors can not figure out why. I spent 3 and 1/2 months in the hospital, where I had approx. 3 seizures a day at times. For two weeks they even placed me in the psychiactric ward because at one point one of the physicians thought I might be faking the episodes.

After extensive testing and many tried and failed medications they discovered that the electric pulses in my brain stem from the frontal lobe which is unusual. And my seizures seem to be provoked by the onset of extreme emotional situations. I’ve had them when I was mad, excited singing in the shower and even once on a trampoline.

Since I’ve been released from the hospital, I stopped taking meds, they made me feel loopy and less connected to the world. By meditating and remaining calm, I’ve been able to lessen the frequency of my episodes to about once a month maybe every two.

It’s still frustrating though because I can’t work in the field I used to and its hard to find legit work from home. But at least its not the psyche ward anymore, gotta count my blessings cause I know it could be worse.