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Emotional Seizures
Sun, 05/28/2017 - 21:24Anyone have simple seizures where your symptom is an intense emotion? Looking for people who can relate.
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My fiance does. Just the
Submitted by 777itch on Sun, 2017-06-04 - 04:38
My fiance does. Just the other night she got more angry at me than she has been in years (she was just stressed, I did something or said something dumb) She yelled, got angry, had seizure. It has happened multiple time since she started having them. in 1.5 years, probably a dozen. You are not alone.
Yes!! I have temporal lobe
Submitted by suntimes15 on Thu, 2017-06-01 - 12:44
Yes!! I have temporal lobe epilepsy, and sometimes that's what my seizures are like -- a wave of intense emotion. It feels at first like a panic attack, but it's usually triggered by something in my environment - flashing lights, for example -- while the emotions feel completely displaced from the environment (complete fear when I'm watching a comic movie, for example), and it really feels like a wave that just washes over me. Then that intense emotion is followed by an intense emotion of a different kind -- like extreme fear followed by extreme anxiety to extreme laughter. So I'll go from crying to laughing. It's really strange.