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My Life With Epilepsy or Should I Say No Life?

Thu, 11/11/2010 - 06:55
I used to have a life. A real life, even with epilepsy undiagnosed from childhood. When I started to have bigger problems than I thought I could cope with on my own, I went to the doctor for help. That was the biggest mistake in my life. The rest is history and current events. I started a blog, partly to save my own life. I think it has. I'm alive and kicking (lol, the seizures make me do that). Please read it if you want to know my story. I would love to hear from the rest of you on this site. I complain about this site a lot and many of you probably wonder why I'm here. I'm here because of all of you. Thanks and I'm looking forward to your comments. You can leave them here or on any one of my blog posts. Click on this link to leave a comment on my blog. For those of you who left comments, you can click on the same link to view my replies as you clicked to leave them or you can subscribe. Click on this link to subscribe to the comment feed. Baruch Hashem. Hoshia na.

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Re: My Life With Epilepsy or Should I Say No Life?

Submitted by zealot on Thu, 2010-11-18 - 23:17
Hi Everyone, I just put up a new post, but I got "Slam, spam, no thank you, ma'm"ed. The Censorship on this site is unbelievable. It seems that we are not allowed to link to urls containing the word suicide. They even censor our fora like that one where the desperate poster asked "should I just kill myself?" We need to talk about what we need to talk about and suicide is a risk with the meds. So why can't we give links to helpful information about it? My post isn't even about suicide. I just put that there for the search engines to pick up. It carries weight on certain searches. So, I can't give you the link to my latest post. And it isn't the featured post. That means if you go to the blog, you'll have to read past the first humunga-lunga post. I'm pretty upset about this. Every time I think they've fixed the spam trap, they haven't. When are they going to white list my domain? I am not a spammer. If I put the url name in the post without the http:// I'll be buried in the search rankings because this site will gobble me up. I feel like I can't win. The people who run this site are a bunch of money-grubbers. Google the board of directors of this site and you'll see. I'm tired and upset and I have to be in Court tomorrow morning. I've been seizing all day and I feel like caca and now I can't even give you the link to my latest post. These people really suck. They ride our words to top search rankings and they censor us. These are supposed to be our fora, not theirs. WTF? I want to be able to post the links to my posts on this blog. It is easier to load one entry than to load the whole blog, which is huge. If I tailor my url names to the dubious standard of this site, I'll really disappear from the search engines. Why can't we link to WebMd anyway? Did someone get in a fight with them? Or are they the competition? This is the United States of America. The Censor is abhorrent. It goes against everything we in this country stand for. You pretend to advocate for us and you censor us. I know why you won't allow the link to the Harborview Horror. Don't think I didn't Google it. I haven't figured out why you won't allow links to WebMd, but I'll figure that one out, too. Baruch Hashem. Hoshia na. Devorah Zealot Soodak http://psychout.typepad.com/ the zealot needs help! P.S. Please read my blog. Thanks. P.P.S. This is my latest post. It's not about suicide. It's about looking for help and not getting it because of greedy people like the ones who run this site. They want to control everything and every one. You'll have to copy and paste the ul name and they'll really grab my search rankings not. They really suck. If I didn't like you all so hmuch, I'd be long gone from this site. Thank you for caring. psychout.typepad.com/blog/2010/11/new-york-state-office-of-mental-health-police-jail-forensic-regulations-suicide-prevenstion-omh-safety-google-search-epilepsy.html P.P.P.S. Please click here to read my featured post.

Re: My Life With Epilepsy or Should I Say No Life?

Submitted by zealot on Fri, 2010-11-19 - 16:46
Hello Everyone, I went to court this morning. I have bad, but not unexpected news. I have two weeks to vacate the Taffy Motel Absecon City Dump. New Jersey is not like New York. The Taffy Motel Absecon City Dump folks lied in court about how much the rent was. If I hadn't been seizing all night and intermittently in the court room this morning, I might have been able to negotiate some agreement, but I think it's probably better this way. I have to get out of here before I get too sick to leave. The toilet isn't flushing, the b*tch who "cleans" the place stole my manicure set and some of my art supplies, the 20 amp circuit is still off, and in New Jersey, or Atlantic County at least, the landlord is always right. I didn't have to go to court to find that out. I could tell that by looking at the housing codes. It's OK to violate them as along as it doesn't create a "hazardous" condition. Huh? Why do they have codes if it's OK to break them or if they are not necessary to ensure safety? Am I stupid? Or maybe just brain damaged from too many seizures. Monday I'm going to Pleasantville to check out a place the Absecon Police suggested I try. I can pray. Please say a prayer for me. The more prayers, the more power. Baruch Hashem. Hoshia na. Devorah Zealot Soodak http://psychout.typepad.com/ the zealot needs help! P.S. Please read my blog. Thanks. P.P.S. Please click here to read my latest post. P.P.P.S. Please click here to read my featured post.

Re: My Life With Epilepsy or Should I Say No Life?

Submitted by zealot on Fri, 2010-11-19 - 19:16
Hello Everyone, Just a quick Gogolian update. I checked out the place the police suggested online. I was already there this morning. I am not eligible for help because I get SSDI. You have to be on Welfare or get SSI to get help. So I checked out the HRA or what they call Housing Authority here applications. They require a mailing address. So I can't get housing because I'm homless. Huh. Go figure. I sure as hell can't. Figure it out I mean. Oh well. Baruch Hashem. Hoshia na. It's Shabbos and I'm writing. I wanted to draw, but the markers I wanted were purloined. Oh well. You're not suppposed to create, period. But if I don't keep occupied, my brain will fry itself. Devorah Zealot Soodak http://psychout.typepad.com/ the zealot needs help! P.S. Please read my blog. Thanks. P.P.S. Please click here to read my latest post. P.P.P.S. Please click here to read my featured post.

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