abuse

Hello everyone, My name is John Dougherty and I am the spouse of someone who has successfully overcome most of her psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) causes by sexual abuse in childhood. PNES are often linked to trauma and PTSD and there are up to 500,000 people in the US alone who are...

Hello. Beyond greetings, I'm really not sure where to begin, how much to include, or even what to say regarding my convoluted history with epilepsy. I'm not yet sure what to feel. I spent fourteen years (exactly half of my life) coping with bizarre episodes I now know were seizures. I was...

The following letter was written to local Legislators, Health & Human Service Agencies, The Office for Civil Rights and selected members of the President’s Cabinet… Dear Senior Advisor Axelrod: Re: Epilepsy Abuse and Civil Rights I’m sure you’re aware of the incident when Supreme Court...

It looks like a seizure…it acts like a seizure…but is it epilepsy? As recently as the 1980s, many doctors and scientists thought that by the time babies were born, the structure of their brains was already genetically determined. However, new research shows evidence of altered brain...

My abuse wasn't physical, it was emotional... My mother and step-father (a surgeon!) refused to acknowlege I had epilepsy and ignored all the falling, passing out, walking into walls, etc. My father was a "beater", but he never touched me because I was already "damaged goods." But every time...