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"Seized" by Eve LaPlant
Mon, 10/09/2006 - 17:51I have just finished reading this book. Anyone else read it? and if so, what do you make of the Temporal Lobe Epilepsy "personality" which includes:
hyper-religiousity, hypergraphia, hyposexuality, viscosity/stickiness. I have to say most of it fits for me to the freakin letter!!!weird eh? talk about perseveration in cognitive thought...sweet Jesus, do I ever do this!!! it just goes round and round in my head. most of my friends tell me "hurry up and forget it already! I tend to keep re-hashing the same thing over and over
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Re: "Seized" by Eve LaPlant
Submitted by pgd on Thu, 2007-08-09 - 10:13
Possible resources
Regarding epilepsy, Ruth C. Adam (had epilepsy) wrote a book titled Living With Mysterious Epilepsy - My 48 Year Victory Over Fear. It contained a foreword by her doctor, Walter C. Alvarez, M.D., author of the Nerves In Collision book (about the non-convulsive epilepsies).
Ruth C. Adam responded to the epilepsy drug Dilantin.
Regarding hyper-religiousity:
Visions or Partial-Complex Seizures?
http://www.ellenwhite.org/seizures.htm
Re: "Seized" by Eve LaPlant
Submitted by Mark Janjigian on Thu, 2007-08-09 - 14:52
Apparently, the catholic church won't ordain anyone with TLE - they feel the 'calling' might be from the condition, not the individual. I've posted stuff by this guy before, but it's worth checking out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raT2PrTQqS0
2 more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIiIsDIkDtg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z4B5BYbjf8
Mark
Re: Re: "Seized" by Eve LaPlant
Submitted by pgd on Thu, 2007-08-09 - 10:01
Re: "Seized" by Eve LaPlant I've lived with all my life and heard others say what meds can do to my mood.Im an expert on epilepsy not someone who writes a book who thinks they are and has never had a seizure. By Belinda at Thu, 08/09/2007 - 5:31am | --- Belinda - Agree with you. If an author does not have epilepsy yet writes a yarn about epilepsy which appeals to a lot of people because it is good story telling, it raises a red flag (my view) as to the claims within the book.