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

Submitted by jinx1331xnij on Sat, 2005-03-12 - 19:44
I feel like alice in wonderland trying to read all of the apologies and message board ethics , so I haven't read many of them, but to the person with the question, depression is generally caused by anticonvulsants , to my knowledge. I have bad depression spells and irritability spells also, but in no way are they close to seeming like a sz. Find another doctor b4 u take the pills again.

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