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school project
Sun, 11/30/2014 - 16:05https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/W3NKKW2
Hi recently i posted this survey to the "teen zone" forum, i am currently doing a project at school based on epilepsy after being diagnosed 6 months ago i wanted to see if it does have an impact on the wellbeing of an individual, i did get a good amount of responses in "teen zone" but seeing as though my survey is open to everyone of any age i was hoping i could get a few more, more details are at the start of the survey.
please note: this is completely confidental, your name is never used in the survey and myself or anyone else involved in the project will never know who you are
your help is incredibly appreciated. :)
I took the survey the other
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2014-12-02 - 10:57
I took the survey the other day. What most people do not think about is there are going to be problems or issues all crop up from one area or another. The stigma has been arround for well over a thousand years. Medicatins can help control a persons seizures. A lot of perople think control is no seizures what so ever. When control can be a few seizures a month. As for side effects all medications have them. What you might think is a side effect from the medication can be what would normally happen to many people. Epilepsy does effect the family. Today there are many people that want to see their family members not have seizures. So they over protect the person which doesn't help the person who has epilepsy. A person with epilepsy is just like everyone else. The main difference is they have a unseen disability. Woiuld they be as protective if the person had glasses, a hearing aid, had to use crutches or a wheel chair?? The answer to that is NO and the only reason is those disabilities are seen. Do they over protect their loved ones that have a heart condition or diabeties? If you really want to know something about the people who have had epilepsy all you have to do is type im "famous people who had epilepsy" you will find that there have been many famous people that were leaders of countries, scientists and many other fields. Epilepsy is more common then Parkinson, Alzh and strokes all combined. When you look at a city and are at a corne you will see at least 25 people. In those 25 people there will be at least 1 person who will have a seizure disorder at some point in his life. I do like the fact that you are doing a project about epilepsy. I was diagnosed in 63 or 64. The doctors never answered my question which was what is epilepsy. In school we were to write an essay on anything we wanted to. I chose epilepsy becausee I never got the answer and I had no idea of what it was or teh different kinds of epilepsy and kinds of seizures. Back then there were no computers. Much less the internet. Forums were not available. Libraries are where we went to gather information. Now it ia all within the touch of your fingers. Good luck with your project an do come back and let us know how it went... Joe