THE MYTHS OF EPILEPSY

People who have epilepsy are possessed, witches, demons, cursed

You should put a Foreign object in the mouth

People can swallow their tongue during a seizure

You having a seizure means you have epilepsy

People with epilepsy are mentally ill and emotionally unstable

People with epilepsy aren’t smart

Epilepsy only happens to children

Epilepsy is contagious

Women with epilepsy can’t be pregnant or have children

You can’t live a full life, living with Epilepsy

Epilepsy is uncommon

Everybody is photosensitive to video games and lights

Everybody’s seizures are fully controlled by medication

You will die from epilepsy

I can drive, even though I seizure

Epilepsy is psychiatric disease

Everybody with Epilepsy needs a caregiver. They can’t live on their own

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Because it's what's considered an invisible illness. Many people lack empathy or understanding about the physical and mental impact it has on someone with epilepsy.

I thought the topic was the myths surrounding epilepsy?
I know for the longest time they would lock up epileptics in an insane institution.
Today I get this from my family..."it's all in your head."
I usually say, " why, yes, it is all in my head. Where do you think seizures come from?"

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@A MyEpilepsyTeam Member It goes beyond that in terms of why they do not understand. The problem is that the press and general media of all types (Internet is as bad as the fact that tv/movies get better ratings from focusing on the most dramatic seizures --Grand Mal -- in the same way that major disasters, serial killers, mass shootings, riots, etc. are much more attractive to them than it would be if Jesus were alive (in human form) today and was curing people and bringing people back from the dead).

And there are many myths are that present and passed around the world (in modern times because the lack of isolation because of the Internet and other forms of communications that allow for 24 hour news sources and too many people believing everything as fact). Even to this day, there are individuals in the USA and communities or even nations is other parts of the world that believe that the left hand is the hand of the Devil and thus any lefthanded person is a child of the Devil. I was lucky that I was born when I was because earlier in the 1960s and before one would be forced to be righthanded by parents or by teachers in schools by whatever means. And in other places (and possibly earlier in the USA), they would cut off the left hand of a person who used it for anything except whipping their butt with toilet paper (or the equivalent) There are many myths about many things that once they are spread by the proper source many believe them and then they teach their children and so on.

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