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Music and Epilepsy

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 13:27

Topic: Epilepsy: Insights & Strategies

This may be an off the wall question, but does anyone with E. has strong emotional reactions (or seem to be VIVIDLY transported to the past) when listening music. It seems like some songs that I listen to (like songs I used to listen to a lot in my younger days) seem to have this VERY STRONG emotional affect on me and I instantly start feeling all the old emotions I used to have when I was younger listening to the same music. I have asked my non-E. friends and they think I am crazy... I know that music is therapeutic and all that stuff, however, why such strong emotional reactions?

Comments

Re: Music and Epilepsy

Submitted by Dagmar on Mon, 2011-02-28 - 21:19

I am so glad I found this site because I thought that I was the only one this happened to. I always felt as though I was nuts .... how do you explain this to someone else? The sharp rock and roll from the 70s does this to me. Dagmar

Re: Music and Epilepsy

Submitted by nikkiautumn on Wed, 2011-04-27 - 01:17

yessssss, i am sooooo happy other people actually know what it feels like.

Re: Music and Epilepsy

Submitted by monicabrownom9 on Fri, 2011-05-13 - 00:23

To my knowledge, music is not yet used as a formal treatment for epilepsy, but the sheer fact that music has shown a potential ability to be a treatment for epilepsy as well as its ability to induce epileptic seizures would seem to indicate that music just might play a more significant role in the human experience than we ever imagined. ____________ Monica. dating sites

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