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Epileptic fits being no more than a mood swing under stress? Is this possible?

Sun, 12/12/2004 - 18:09
My psychiatrist has told me that i have epilepsy, caused by severe depression after I was attacked in the street and suffered harrasment when i lived in a different city. I have never had an epileptic seizure, but am depressed a lot of the time and i can become angry and distressed when someone is truly and heavily rude or dishonest to me (i will shout at them and cry). My doctor also gave me medication for my depression (Tegretol) which caused two hallucinations. I reported the hallucinations and the psychiatrist  said that they were a direct indicator of epilepsy. I am forced to think that this is a diagnosis caused by negligence, but he said that epileptic seizures can also be just a mood swing while someone is being nasty to you. Is this possible?

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RE: Epileptic fits being no more than a mood swing under stress?

Submitted by Simpson_Jr on Sat, 2004-09-25 - 09:37

Hi,

Epilepsy can have lots of causes and there's very little known about epilepsy yet. About 150 different types of epilepsy are known by now but... the medical world still doesn't know more as 1% about the brain yet...

Seizures can be triggered by lots & lots things, they also can present themselves in countless ways and... yes having mood swings after some sort of stress is certainly one of them.

Usually people think of someone falling on the ground with no reason and who starts shouting and shaking, but... that's just one of _many_ ways a seizure can present itself.

best wishes,

Bart

the Netherlands.

 

Hi,

Epilepsy can have lots of causes and there's very little known about epilepsy yet. About 150 different types of epilepsy are known by now but... the medical world still doesn't know more as 1% about the brain yet...

Seizures can be triggered by lots & lots things, they also can present themselves in countless ways and... yes having mood swings after some sort of stress is certainly one of them.

Usually people think of someone falling on the ground with no reason and who starts shouting and shaking, but... that's just one of _many_ ways a seizure can present itself.

best wishes,

Bart

the Netherlands.

 

RE: RE: Epileptic fits being no more than a mood swing under str

Submitted by skyscape on Sat, 2004-09-25 - 10:40

But what i mean to say is, if i am depressed and cry when someone is nasty to me, this means i am epileptic? (this is what the doctor was saying) and that he gives me medicine that makes me have hallucinations, but then says the hallucinations are a sign i am epileptic, making no refence to it being a side effect of the medicine?

But what i mean to say is, if i am depressed and cry when someone is nasty to me, this means i am epileptic? (this is what the doctor was saying) and that he gives me medicine that makes me have hallucinations, but then says the hallucinations are a sign i am epileptic, making no refence to it being a side effect of the medicine?

RE: RE: RE: Epileptic fits being no more than a mood swing under

Submitted by Clunk1234567 on Sun, 2004-09-26 - 15:41

An epileptic seizure starts in the brain, and can effect every function of the brain.  Everything from actions, through to thoughts gets screwed up because the brain is throwing a tantrum. I think it is possible, for the hallucinations to be part of that tantrum, after all, where do these hallucinations come from.................

.................the brain.

An epileptic seizure starts in the brain, and can effect every function of the brain.  Everything from actions, through to thoughts gets screwed up because the brain is throwing a tantrum. I think it is possible, for the hallucinations to be part of that tantrum, after all, where do these hallucinations come from.................

.................the brain.

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