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Gift of my Epilepsy
Sun, 10/04/2015 - 09:13I have temporal lobe epilepsy and have "mystical/escatic" partial seizures and I started to paint few months ago.I was so fed up before painting that I considered ending my life.. Art has saved me, please view my work at www.nirvene.com . I finger paint during these mystical states which now after being diagnosed I know are seizures.
The auras of a seizure are
Submitted by margiefox118@live.com on Sun, 2016-04-03 - 09:54
The auras of a seizure are your subconscious mind taking over because of a malfunction in your conscious mind. If this increases in intensity a more severe seizure results. I had the same for a while until one became a full blown seizure. I hope you have a neurologist so you know how to avert this..Your beautiful painting is inspired by your mind-not your seizures. As you said it could be the way your mind is helping you cope with the seizure activity in your brain.