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Are there any aspects of epilepsy that you like???/ I'd like an answer soon.
Mon, 03/04/2013 - 07:43When I was eight years old I developed photo sensitive epilepsy and had a lot of tonic clonic siezures which would make it hard for me to learn in school and do normal things I would often have Auras and visual halucinations of strange types of things, After countless tests and examinations my parents were told by my neurologist that I would be eligible to have an epilepsy removal surgery which was to be schedualed in 2002 at the age of 10 going on 11 and the choice for this surgery of course wasn't my neurologists it was my parents choice. When I look back on that time it wasn't so bad infact I sometimes miss the Auras and certain aspects of the condition I don't mean to sound selfish or anything because I know many people would give anything to be able to have an epilepsy removal surgeryand yes I know some people can control seizures with prescription drugs but anyway getting to the main point...
Do any of you like any aspects of epilepsy?
Aspects of epilepsy that you like???/ I'd like an answer soon.
Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Sat, 2013-03-09 - 04:38
Hi Kozuka100, Sorry for the slow reply. The aspects of epilepsy could be a gift from the Gods. A search on epilepsy-dot-com for "migraines that cause "ecstatic events"" returns a large forum on various aspects of "Ecstatic Seizures" from epilepsy The journal article "Ecstatic epileptic seizures: a potential window on the neural basis for human self-awareness" by Picard & Craig (Epilepsy Behav. 2009 Nov;16(3):539-46. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.09.013),covers some aspects, the abstract at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19836310 the quick view currently at: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:TIYZQx9F33sJ:www.epileps.ch/PDF/ecstatic-seizures.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiFRq4QWbPBRHdmgcnJvSfuNPUz1S8SudOk3FHyQdvT_T17cN-0utO4agElZ-UVpJox4JqBoZq9-kx04oHu8BgIlb6sGtGaCIUk-qfivonYl-f0xE373d-UdUdRxEakmGvYoIrE&sig=AHIEtbSIpGHifDRMh1aG3hJXdSXpUMzU3g Many aspects of my epilepsy helped with my university studies (Proustian memory tricks can be used to exploit Limbic Seizures for a major academic performance advantage), but, the intense prejudice against epilepsy make otherwise measurable objective advantages another regarded "dirty" effect of epilepsy that even medical professionals will often try to neutralize with force. (The format for the argument would follow much as taking as an illness the "Too Smart To Be A Cop" victim of government (and much popular) logic: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/01/too-smart-to-be-a-good-cop/#.UTr50taP2So Subjective measurements meet similar prejudice, as reaching meditative "nirvana" too easily through neurological side-effects and/or manipulations is also "dirty", "false", "bad", etc., versus doing it the "legitimate", "moral", and, especially, the "difficult" way ("hard" is tainted by the frequent orgasm effect with such epilepsy). The prejudiced argument is also in many books on meditation. The current war against such epilepsy is much like the old war against masturbation, the current wars against "The Secret of Joy", unorthodox spiritualities (including the orthodox iurodivyi), and any intelligence that isn't regarded as popular emotional intelligence. The "clean" versus "dirty" aspects of any impairments (differences) is also in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or ACT (typically pronounced as a word, not as separate initials]). Many aspects of epilepsy illustrate the capriciousness of the attempted separation with necessarily subjective values. Tadzio