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I've Been Rejected By The "In Crowd"

Tue, 11/21/2006 - 02:30
I have noticed that my friends and social contacts have diminished quite a bit over the years due mainly to seizures. I am often in a club / bar enviroment and have even had a seizure on stage before (how embarrasing). I seem to have them when I am up for long periods of time, don't eat properly and just generally party too much. If I care for myself and regulate sleep, eat on time and don't get too excited by stress, problems, situations etc... they seem to be controlled and don't occur ... but one little slip up and I'm going down. This sucks when I want to go out with friends, or hang out late and just basically get fu*ked up and drink and party and get festive into the wee hours. Does anyone else have this type of problem? Seizures have happened on dates, at work, twice while driving, at the mall, etc.... what I noticed is that people really freak out, all of a sudden everyone is having a good time and then "boom" Doug is "posessed" and falls out and starts flopping around like a fish. I hear random roumors about me from time to time which can be rather disturbing, I once even heard that I died. I feel very embarrased by this problem and even ashamed at times, although I cannot help it and wish it didn't exist, it does affect certain aspects of my social life. I hate the meds, they make me sleep way too much, feel tired all the time and I don't want to go anywhere because I worry that it might happen in public or even worse behind the wheel of the car. I live miserably with this each day. Anyways .. I just wanted to get that out... it feels kinda nice to share these feeling with people who actually understand and can truly relate. Douglas

Comments

Re: I've Been Rejected By The "In Crowd"

Submitted by Bedge on Tue, 2006-11-21 - 06:23
Hey Douglas, Yeah, in the last 12 months I have realised all my friends have kinda vanished. It's like you are only worthy of phone calls and invited out if you look right, act right and definatly dont have epilepsy! It kinda suxs, but I guess everyone has their own agenda. I get heaps upset about it sometimes, but such as life. Instead I have decided I couldn't be bothered putting in the effort to keep up appearances with people who don't give two hoots anyway. My circle of friends has shrunk, but the few I have are fantastic. ------------------------------ Peace, Love, Mung Beans

Re: Re: I've Been Rejected By The "In Crowd"

Submitted by Stratovarius65 on Tue, 2006-11-21 - 12:07
Hey Becky,.. yeah Epilepsy definately don't go hand in hand with being "cool" does it. Could you imagine "Fonzie" from Happy Days having a seizure, how funny would that be. I want to thank everyone for being supportive and taking an interest in my posts, this is a very nice web site and the people here are very nice .. thank you Becky.

Re: I've Been Rejected By The "In Crowd"

Submitted by andy m on Tue, 2006-11-21 - 09:36
Hey Douglas, I'm sure that what you have written will have a great number of people nodding their heads in agreement. I myself spent far too many years trying too hard with people who in reality weren't even my friends. I spent about 15 years basically getting wasted to the detriment of my own health and hurting those closest to me. I fell in with the wrong crowd who of course all evaporate at the first sign of trouble. I cleaned up my act almost 11 years ago and yes it was very hard at first and it lead to a kind of social exclusion, but as the years have passed I have found the circle of people that I trust and consider real friends begin to grow again because people have begun to see the real me behind the multitude of masks that I used to hide the anguish I was going through. I have begun to get back on good terms with people that I alienated before, when I was to not put too fine a point on it a drunken asshole. So whilst they may not be the ''in'' crowd that we all strive to be a part of at some point they are people I love and trust which is far more than you can say for a lot of the people I have known in the past, people that would and have left me lying in the street after a seizure.

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