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Seizures with psychic symptoms? Please help!!!!
Fri, 04/13/2007 - 16:21Comments
Re: Seizures with psychic symptoms? Please help!!!!
Submitted by stephenwatershed on Tue, 2009-07-21 - 18:03
Hello Kat,
I was extremely interested to read of your experience. Also interested to read of the comments posted by others.
I have suffered this precise experience since my early 20's. About 6-10 days a year I might experience 10 or so of these partial seizures a day. Only today, aged 45, did I discover that what seems like plenty of others have had the same experiences. Mine tend to go like...
- usually on days when I am tired / anxious
- always seemingly triggered by a faint memory that I have heard what someone is about to say before.
- a strenghtening feeling of deep, totally convinced deja vu, sometimes accompanied by a small part of me saying 'don't fall into it, you know it's just a brain dysfunction- however hard you try it is impossible NOT to believe that this has happened before.
- varying levels of dread. Sometimes minor, sometimes strong to the point of being almost physical, ie having to right oneself, hold on to something.
- usually some very very minor recurrances the next day, but usually it starts early in the morning and does not continue over into the next day.
- trying to understand it better, I too tried writing down what I was thinking during a 'mad fit' (as I called the feeling before I learned that the correct term is 'partial psychic seizure') - As with the other commentator I just wrote down a load of nonsense
In all I find it extremely comforting to read that this is actaully a recognised medical condition that others have experienced. Perhaps it is because my seizures are relatively minor (compared with what others have written about here) I just don't let it bother me. For a living I train people, if it so happens that I know I am having 'mad fits' that day I just either wing it (It is possible) or I excuse myself from the room for the two or three minutes that this takes.
The other thing I would say is that same of the comments on this blog look quite complicated and as if (in my subjective opinion) other neurological problems are being experienced simultaneously. Also some people are more self-exploratory than others. And as for, visionaries, seeing into the future etc, that sounds like they've OD'd once to often on LSD. If it's not bothering you TOO much, just don't worry.
Anyway nice to hear your story - next time it happens to me I will no be going'AAArgh am I a loony, Am I the only person this has happened to - No I won't, I will be thinking UH OH...here comes a partial physic seizure, I wonder if Kat's OK today.....
Stephen, London, UK
Hello Kat,
I was extremely interested to read of your experience. Also interested to read of the comments posted by others.
I have suffered this precise experience since my early 20's. About 6-10 days a year I might experience 10 or so of these partial seizures a day. Only today, aged 45, did I discover that what seems like plenty of others have had the same experiences. Mine tend to go like...
- usually on days when I am tired / anxious
- always seemingly triggered by a faint memory that I have heard what someone is about to say before.
- a strenghtening feeling of deep, totally convinced deja vu, sometimes accompanied by a small part of me saying 'don't fall into it, you know it's just a brain dysfunction- however hard you try it is impossible NOT to believe that this has happened before.
- varying levels of dread. Sometimes minor, sometimes strong to the point of being almost physical, ie having to right oneself, hold on to something.
- usually some very very minor recurrances the next day, but usually it starts early in the morning and does not continue over into the next day.
- trying to understand it better, I too tried writing down what I was thinking during a 'mad fit' (as I called the feeling before I learned that the correct term is 'partial psychic seizure') - As with the other commentator I just wrote down a load of nonsense
In all I find it extremely comforting to read that this is actaully a recognised medical condition that others have experienced. Perhaps it is because my seizures are relatively minor (compared with what others have written about here) I just don't let it bother me. For a living I train people, if it so happens that I know I am having 'mad fits' that day I just either wing it (It is possible) or I excuse myself from the room for the two or three minutes that this takes.
The other thing I would say is that same of the comments on this blog look quite complicated and as if (in my subjective opinion) other neurological problems are being experienced simultaneously. Also some people are more self-exploratory than others. And as for, visionaries, seeing into the future etc, that sounds like they've OD'd once to often on LSD. If it's not bothering you TOO much, just don't worry.
Anyway nice to hear your story - next time it happens to me I will no be going'AAArgh am I a loony, Am I the only person this has happened to - No I won't, I will be thinking UH OH...here comes a partial physic seizure, I wonder if Kat's OK today.....
Stephen, London, UK
I have the exact same
Submitted by Jacob Reed on Tue, 2018-02-20 - 14:06
I have the exact same symptoms during these auras or complex partial seizures