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Tue, 01/08/2019 - 21:51
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I fully intend to live my

Submitted by Kaysara on Wed, 2019-01-09 - 21:22
I fully intend to live my life enlightening the world of the greatest cure I have learned from the miracle plant which brought  to this level of freedom. This is my story and I have no medical experience whatsoever. I used meditation to help me survive those dark days of depression.  Many days I felt suicidal and it was my meditation tapes which helped me survive but I still lived in a dark deep hole surrounded by a dark wall which no light from the sun could penetrate or any kindness from my family could touch me.  I had no life and it was bad for my family seeing me survive.Happiness, the greatest gift that I posses and I do not speak lightly but from experience of having lived a life of depression  brought on by epilepsy. Perhaps you are one of the sufferers of depression and epilepsy, existing day to day,taking up space,  believing that this is how life is,  a living hell?  If any of this is familiar to you please know that there is a life of freedom available. When I suffered from both I wouldn't have been interested in reading about anyone or anything but now that I am free and know it is possible for many sufferers from those life crippling diseases to experience this freedom also,, to tell my story, how I escaped from a deep dark hole to live every day in bright sunlight and freedom  ,once again within my loving family and a great open world all waiting for me to explore if and when I wish, which before I had rejected. I have come from a deep well of depression which I can only describe to you who are suffering or who have suffered, it is like most things in life.  It is difficult for people to understand unless they have had the experience.  You all know how, like you, I suffered deep depression and serious grandmal epilepsy, nocturnal fits where I wet the bed which resulted in me wearing disposable nappies.  I felt old,miserable and ready to die.  I knew the world would be a much better place without me. I often contemplated suicide.  Why didn’t I end it all you might well ask.  I often ask myself that same question and it is that same God who has you reading this information who kept giving me that inner strength to survive until I found that answer which has me literally jumping for joy with happiness today and every day.  My husband, in desperation, got some cannabis for me and it was then the changes began. I had my first cookie made with cannabis and the result made me happy but we had friends in the house.  Was it the people around me who raised me from the well of darkness or could a cookie made with a certain amount of cannabis possibly have such an effect? I didn’t trust the cookie.  I had a cookie a few times over the next few days and I did notice my mood seemed a bit brighter but I wouldn't, couldn'nt trust a cookie.  My mood was dark and I was in that dark hole but every few days I would have a cookie and my mood would lighten so I began to believe perhaps there was some truth in this.  As time moves on so do you.  Health improves, depression becomes lighter and seizures become from grand mal to petit mal until, in my case, being nocturnal, happening in my sleep, I don’t know if I am having any and my husband isn’t aware of me having any.  I asked my specialist for my driving licence.  I had to undergo an eeg. I showed a slight sign of epilepsy, a wee curve, she wouldn’t be happy allowing me drive and I have accepted the fact that it will be some time before I drive but I am quite happy as I have my driver and he is happy to drive me.  I still take my prescribed medication but I take less of my natural medication, amazing how it has so improved my health and lead me into a life full of happiness. It is not an addictive drug but it certainly is a wonder medicine. It is past time that the medical practice accepted this fact and made it legal for people suffering from epilepsy and the suicidal side effects of the prescribed medicine to have access to this plant. People suffering from the dark suicidal illness of depression when there is no need for them to go through such torture, the world must be made aware of the healing powers of cannabis.Since starting on this plant four years ago I have not had a serious epileptic seizure and no dark depression whatsoever. My depression has completely disappeared.  I do continue to smoke a few puffs perhaps once or twice a month, some months not at all.  I believe it may depend on the time of year and the moon cycles?  But it certainly has changed my lifestyle and I am lucky to live in a country and time where it is freely available.  It is time the rest of the world stopped their ridiculous pretence at ignorance and made it available for those children and adults in need.  To allow those tormented by depression and suicidal thoughts to leave all that behind and live a life in the sunshine.cc Kay McEleney

Epilepsy is caused by brain

Submitted by tahamedur on Fri, 2019-01-11 - 09:55
Epilepsy is caused by brain lesions or other disorders leading to a disturbance of the rhythm of electrical discharges of brain cells. In the middle age epileptics were considered as the curse of God. But later on it was believed to be mainly the result of chronic brain pathology having its origin in the cerebrum. Epilepsy is also called falling disease, fits, or convulsions.As a result of chronic brain pathology there are unpredictable seizures and frequent states of delirium which of course remain for a short duration. Epilepsy, in fact, does not denote a specific disease, but a symptom.Epilepsy constitutes an important mental health problem. It is the most common chronic neurological disease having a prevalence of about 1 per cent in the general population. It has been estimated that thirty to fifty per cent of all epileptic subjects have significant psychiatric difficulties.Although the incidence of psychoses is high in epilepsy, personality disturbances lead to a lot of psychiatric problems. Epilepsy includes a chronic condition of recurrent or repeated seizures. A seizure is a transient, paroxysmal, pathos-physiological disturbance of cerebral function caused by a spontaneous excessive discharge of cortical neurons.A seizure may be abnormal movements or an arrest of movement, a disorder of sensation or perception or a disturbance of behavior or an impairment of consciousness. Almost any required or genetic pathological process involving the brain may cause epilepsy.The symptoms of epilepsy include falling down, shaking of hands, legs and bodies, biting the teeth, foaming in the mouth etc. Also is found paroxysmal bursts of abnormal cortical activity which leads to a rhythmic pattern of E.E.G. showing abnormalities in the rate and voltage of these currents.Though epilepsy is irreversible, it on the whole does not involve the progressive deterioration and dementia commonly found in the syphilitic, presenile and senile demetias. Read  about <a href="https://www.healthfitnesz.com/how-to-control-emotions-effectively-in-any-situation/">how to control emotions effectively.</a> I hope that will be very helpful in this case.The epileptic seizures involve loss or distortion of consciousness and psychological and physical symptoms. Though about 20 per cent of these epileptic fits may be attributed to chronic brain disorders such as tumors, inflammation or trauma in the brain, more than 75 per cent of the epileptic fits are called idiopathic epilepsy as they do not have any known cause.

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