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What constitutes "born with epilepsy?"
I started having my first seizures, that we know of, at 10 years old. No head trauma or anything. Did my brain chemistry change? What happened? Why all of a sudden?
Personally, I think I was born with it and it just never presented until other things triggered it (nasty divorce between parents, domestic violence, drug abuse and alcoholism in the family).
Could that stress cause epilepsy? I imagine if it did, there would be a significantly larger amount of people with epilepsy/seizures.