suicide and seizures

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: suicide and seizures

Submitted by Gina Marie on Mon, 2007-09-10 - 18:49

It's passively suicidal to hope that your next seizure will kill you. Not an urgent thing to need treated, but certainly not something to just accept and live with either. If your seizures have made you prone to depression than checking with your doctor about getting that treated is a good idea. If you feel hopeless and helpless because of your E, then perhaps finding a therapist and developing a goal plan to work towards would be helpful. Suicide, unlike what someone said earlier, is not the "easy way out". there's nothing easy about dying except being dead. Esp. not for those in your life who love you. Check out the Suvivors of Suicide website, you'll see how much pain you leave those behind you. And what's worse, if you attempt suicide and fail, it's almost as devastating for you as it is succeeding for your family. So, anything to prevent that action is worth it. I hate what epilepsy has done to my life, and I haven't even had it as long as you have, I'm trying to convince my brain that there's reason for hope. But still, it crosses my mind, "Why bother?" or "I don't want to do this anymore." I'm still looking for my own internal responses to those questions, they're there, I just need to find them. Fourty isn't old. It's barely middle age these days. And there's no time like the present to make life changes. Me, I went back to school, I'm not sure if it's going to work out, but it's worth a shot. Do you have any hobbies? Why not get some? go take some classes in something that interests you, meet new people. Getting our of your head, and stopping isolation are big things in treating depression, perhaps its the same with treating E, we need to get out of our heads and stop wrapping our lives up in being ill. It's a facet of our life, but it's not a definition of who we are, not a definition of who YOU are, you define yourself:)