Hi there,
There’s a big debate in an epilepsy support group on FB about these terms: seizure disorder, Epilepsy and neurological disorder. Is epilepsy a symptom of a neurological disorder? What do you think the definitions of these are and why? I do know that different countries have different definitions. I have my own idea but I’m curious to see what everyone else thinks.🙂

What causes epilepsy

When I tell someone new that I have epilepsy and very unreliable memory recall (as a result of the cumulative side effects of all of the anticonvulsants and some other meds), I try to educate them about not only the range of seizures that I have but also how to react and what to do (and not to do) when witnessing someone having a seizure.

When I was young, I was diagnosed with petite mal based on eeg and symptoms. But in my mid teens, my diagnosis was changed to temporal lobe, again based in a different eeg and symptoms. Has this happened to anyone else? And if anyone has an answer as to why this happened, I would love to hear about it!

When did you get it?

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I certainly did not know this until a few minutes ago --when I was researching what international medical committee decides why the label of "mental illness" is used rather than "mental disability" for those that are not labeled as mental disorders (and I did not even know that the mental disorders were not listed as a sub-group of the overall group known as mental illness rather than being in a separate category.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK20369/

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When I first started reading, I was angry b/c I thought the article was going to say that everyone has brain fog and memory problems, so it would minimize what we go through. But then I saw it as an opportunity to help others understand what we go through, COVID or not, as it focuses on the brain and cognitive impairment.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/a...(Phone number can only be seen by MyEpilepsyTeam users)

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