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Mania-She's a maniac, maniac on the floor!
On a lighter note: this could have been fun as a poll...
Emotionality -- (Sob) Why do you say that?
Mania -- You BET!
Depression -- Isn't EVERYONE? ;-)
Guilt -- NEVER
Humorlessness -- I take that as an insult. :-(
Altered sexual interest -- Hmmmm. Where were they going with this one?
Aggression -- Assertive, yes. Aggressive, no.
Anger and hostility -- Peace, man. Joy to the world.
Hypergraphia (excessive writing) Well, I am a professional writer, does that count?
Religiosity -- Nope, not me. But I married a guy from 3 generations of Presbyterian ministers....
Philosophical interest -- I minored in Philosophy in college.
Sense of personal destiny -- You are what you make of yourself.
Hypermoralism -- I was a slut in college!
Dependency -- How about co-dependency?
Paranoia -- Not a chance.
Obsessionalism -- I used to be when I was younger. Now I've mellowed out.
Circumstantiality -- Next we'll be quoting existentialism!
Viscosity -- How pompous! I go with the flow!
So there. (LOL!)
No, but Van Goh was. He was also bipolar though. (A personal hero of mine)Maybe shakespeare was a hypergraphiac epileptic.
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No, but Van Goh was. He was also bipolar though. (A personal hero of mine)
lol yeah, plus there isn't much evidence that supports it anyways as i read more articles on the topic! it's cool to hear your opinions..
guess i was just kiiiiinda hoping maybe there was some explanation for my weird personality & that i wasn't alone haha! but it's starting to look like i am just a bit weird.. ehh oh well :rock:
Bi-polar disorder and epilepsy seem to go hand in hand. Treatments are often sometimes the same. I know i've been more manic and depressed at times but that could have also been situation based. I do know my brain is not on the same page as it was before the seizures and meds. Something is missing, just can't seem to put my finger on it.
ditto that - I feel the same - like some sort of 'entity' enveloping everything now almost over the past 2 years
I have gone over it once with a therapist, who sat there and said things like "I see..." "go on..." "yes..." which I found not helpful. Everything from tinnitus to eye floaters to the repetition of events to the way people look at me to the third eye to psychic events... good bad ugly
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i don't becessarily believe that cause people can get E at all different points in thier lives.so how can those behaviors be related.i had a lot of those before i had this disease.
I think this is very true. Neurons that "fire together, wire together". In epilepsy, that means that the more seizures you have, the more seizures you're likely to have. The abnormal path becomes the default, the feedback loop gets established. I think the same thing can be true with other kinds of brain imbalances and patterns of thinking/behaving -- they may start small, but with circumstance and time may become more ingrained and more problematic. Some day I hope neurofeedback training (which works to disrupt and re-route patterns) will become the treatment of choice for such disorders. It makes much more sense (to me) to try and rewire the brain to function healthily, rather than to merely suppress the unhealthy stuff (the way meds do).Most of these issues (for example, prone to anxiety) are related to chemical imbalances that get "tweaked" somehow by some circumstance, and turn into full-blown disorders.