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Ecstatic Seizures

Thu, 08/27/2009 - 07:32

 Hi

Has anyone experienced "ecstatic" seizures?  I've had a series of them recently, and they are amazing: totally outside the range of normal experience and by far the best experiences of my life!  I'm not religious or "spiritual" but recognise that they could be construed by others as deep and meaningful life changing events...evidence of the "divine" as opposed to neurological events. 

I've been told by my neurologist they are very rare and I've not been able to find out much about them/share experiences. 

Victoria

Hello all,  I'm adding this comment just over a month after the original post having realised that the thread is now incredibly confusing and there are some misunderstandings following what seem to be random postings.   You may want to follow the date order of the posts before making comments or coming to conclusions.   

Regards,

Victoria

Comments

Re: Ecstatic Seizures

Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Fri, 2009-10-23 - 04:22
Hi Victoria and Zealot, The State officially doesn't like the way I walk now, and State servants are overly interested in my well-being, so please wish me luck!!! The State holds that no true pure citizen could possibly have epilepsy (just read Dr. Appelbaum's "Almost A Revolution"). I wonder if the Christian Scientists would take me back under their wing, or least in their attic? As per deviant: My University placed me in the top 3% statistical deiviant bell-curve area, a magna cum laude deviant, but not quite a summa cum laude deviant. My federal employment oral interviews placed me in the bottom 3% statistical deviant bell-curve area, a total failure, but not an absolute failure (most all my federal lawsuits were about the neurological impairment of the "oral" versus the neurological enhancement of the "non-oral," and the government's refusal to reasonably accommodate either one, or both, with the unusual world of epilepsy). As in the epileptic ACT statistical experiment in South Africa that discarded exceptions, but with the regression line from the correlation between oral and non-oral performance for me, I'm an outlier that was discarded for being too exceptional, both in a positive and in a negative sense of the regression line. The new magic 567 questions (that many questions!!!) of the MMPI-2, along with the magic answer keys, have been forcibly removed from the internet, but a Google search of "dissociation MMPI" and "TLE MMPI" and "epilepsy MMPI" skims the DSM-IV foundational problems, then reading the matching individual MMPI questions starts to reveal the nonsense of the DSM-IV, and how epilepsy totally screws it up, and the feeble resultant patches that didn't work as nothing beyond a lame excuse for stinky shrinks. The nonsense trash was more apparent in the old MMPI, with questions like about whether or not a person liked red sports cars being a weighted point for paranoid schizophrenia. I knew that toxic-psychiatry was just the tip of the iceberg, because we had to play with the MMPI by trying to fake "bad" to learn how great the MMPI was at detecting cheats, but off-and-on being kissed by the gods really invalidates the MMPI whenever I chose to think of the embrace. True believers in the MMPI are just that, true believers. No matter what the evidence, the MMPI is Great in their eyes, and absolute disproof is merely the MMPI working in mysterious ways to their interpretations. It is difficult, sometimes next to impossible, to find an antedote to toxic psychiatry, and the smell of stinky shrinks was enough to drive me away from practicing in the field. Now they're trying to infect neurology with their true believers. I still don't believe I'm genetically programmed with architectual skills to blow spherical bubbles, but the Devils Basalt Postpiles around volcanoes are not genetically hexagonal either. Maybe I'm saying it wrongly, I mean more like the book "Why Some Like It Hot," where it is somewhat argued that labeled impairments are made into impairments by the surrounding society, like food allergies and evolutionary gastronomy, and the same perfect diet that is best for everyone, or else!!! Apple Pie makes me sick, and while I like the taste of Apple Pie, a cure is prohibitive. Medicaid wouldn't pay for any expensive eegs/MRIs until after my subdural hematoma from secondary tonic-clonics in 2006. The staff with my first neurologist just said that it was cheaper just to try various AEDs first and see if they worked in the late 80's(MRIs were more expensive and moderately rare there and back then). I just hope all the toxic psych-witch doctors continue to stay away from me!!! I still think in E. Fuller Torrey's "The Mind Game" that his straw-man witch-doctors knocked the heck out of his great psych theories. I still wonder if the PA's hissy-fit was a warning of worse to come. Tadzio

Re: Ecstatic Seizures

Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Sun, 2009-10-04 - 05:41

discussion/985093?page=1

Hi Victoria,

I was gonna post more neuro-chemical info and how behaviour conditioning can manipulate them but lost my info when my synesteasa
popped up (can't spell hardly now!!). I posted some of divine port at Robert's forum at http://my.epilepsy.com/discussion/984934
 .I think I did anyways 

Tadzio

discussion/985093?page=1

Hi Victoria,

I was gonna post more neuro-chemical info and how behaviour conditioning can manipulate them but lost my info when my synesteasa
popped up (can't spell hardly now!!). I posted some of divine port at Robert's forum at http://my.epilepsy.com/discussion/984934
 .I think I did anyways 

Tadzio

Re: Ecstatic Seizures

Submitted by zealot on Sun, 2009-10-04 - 14:28
Tadzio, Do you mean synesthesia? That's a bit of a mind blower. I have experienced isolated and brief episodes. I was stuck tasting red for awhile and I have to say its not my favorite flavor, oops, I mean color. Sorry you're having a tough time. I"m giving my spell checker workout. Left temporal lobe is written expression. Using your brain period is good. Not only does it prevent brain cell aptosis x( it stimulates the output of neurotrophins, which are growth factors. Our brains continue to produce new neurons through our entire lives and if we exercise our minds we get to keep the newbies. It's not only BT. Any kind of PT. Doing puzzles. Reading. Writing. Art. Math. Even physical exercise. I'm sorry I can't give citations. They're gone with my laptop. That's one reason I like the Modafinil. It stimulates the production of neurotrophins. So does memantadine. I hope you feel better soon. It upsets me when you aren't your usual arch, intellectual, loquacious self. Feel better soon. Zealot

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