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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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The book that got me started
Submitted by Colina on Sat, 2007-12-01 - 13:45
It was about 24 years ago that I read this book so I remember little of it. It was the first book I took out of the library while hunting down some answers for my very mysterious symtoms. It was the beginning of a very long haul to get a diagnosis. Whether or not the book is written by someone with epilepsy or not many of the symtoms were what I was experiencing and it helped me to describe to my docs what I was feeling. I still have a paper with things written from that book.
Re: "Seized" by Eve LaPlant
Submitted by Belinda on Thu, 2007-08-09 - 08:31
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.
Re: "Seized" by Eve LaPlant
Submitted by Corinna on Sat, 2008-05-24 - 12:21
I have just read this book and do have the 5 major characteristics. I have spent 25 years being thrown around psych wards and misdiagnosed as bipolar until finally i found a doctor specialized in both psych and neuro who found the truth and my shaking spells wetre NOT just "fear" or nervousness. I DO have a split of fibers in rt temp lobe which may be responsible for all this. Can any one tell me the difference between right temporal obe epilepsy and left TLE? Someone said left TLE is more like schizophrenia w halucinations and right temp lobe epilepsy is more like mood swings (bipolar is that true someone please answer I feel so alone in this!!!!