can you get a sad feeling with partial seizures?

[momof3boys]

About 20 minutes ago, I was sitting on my love seat, watching tv, when I felt a funny feeling come over me and then felt so sad. I then recall looking at the wall (to my right) and my head killing me.

Ive never had the feeling of sadness come over me like that.

Is that normal with partial seizures?

 

[epileric]

I can get very emotional during my post-ictal period. I also am oversensitive & my feelings get hurt easily as well as feeling very insecure and/or needy.

Not always but often any one or combination of those emotions can effect me after a seizure.

 

[Endless]

Do you have temporal lobe seizures? Did the feeling pass in a few minutes, or linger longer?

If it didn't linger it could have been a simple partial seizure. A kind of partial seizure is an emotional seizure - intense emotions of fear, euphoria, or sadness, and sometimes, anger.

 

[momof3boys]

Do you have temporal lobe seizures? Did the feeling pass in a few minutes, or linger longer?

If it lingered it could have been a simple partial seizure. A kind of partial seizure is an emotional seizure - intense emotions of fear, euphoria, or sadness, and sometimes, anger.

Yes, my epilepsy is in my left temporal lobe. The feeling kind of lingered for awhile. I would get this funny feeling with the sadness, and then I found myself staring at the wall.

 

[mel239]

I have left temp also-I go through utter despair also and extreme rage and I cant pinpoint it directly to a seizure,but my epi seems to think a lot of things are attributed to interictal personality issues that are common with this focal area.I have not been happy for so many years,at times it sinks to depression and at other times I try to search for things to make me happy.My big thing is Christmas.In the past it always made me happy,so Im compensating by trying to make it Christmas all year long.I dont put away my decorations,I play holiday music,I wrap gifts,etc..Now I know this is bizarre,but its my minds way of trying to find past happiness.Im no psych doc but that is my conclusion.To me,you cant expect all that funky electricity seizing in your brain not to have a lasting emotional effect.My son told me last week that I have not smiled or laughed in 4 years-I try to fake it now for my families benefit

 

[flinnigan]

I would say yes. I would have extreme emotion changes sometimes I'd come out of it laughing my butt off.

 

[momof3boys]

Thanks everyone for your replies.

I was use to having complex partial seizures. Since my VEEG, Im having simple partial seizures. Being aware of whats going on during the seizures, is new to me. I was so use to going unconsious during my seizures with the complex partials. I can see by reading more on the internet, it can cause different emotions. The sadness is new to me, and with the funny feeling that I had with it, I pretty much assumed it was seizure related.

 

[mel239]

I was used to the complex partials where I didnt remember and when mine switched last fall freaked me out so bad I called the epi nurse-guess I didnt read enough and thought the meds would stop them not change them,so you are not alone

 

[krisliane]

I have left temporal, simple partial seizures in my sleep-- and after a few of them or a night of them I can be sad for almost an entire day. I was going to look into how close this origin center is to an emotional seat in the brain, but I'm feeling a little too out of it and, well, sad to do it today. If/when I come up with anything, I'll be sure to re-post.

 

[Hand of Blood]

i get this an hour b4 i have a tc! its like u just sit there so down and not wanting to do anything or even talk!

but now i get it now and then even with a tc so i dunno

 

[RunningGirl85]

My psychiatrist said that different moods can be triggered with seizure activity, so it would totally make sense.

 

[momof3boys]

Thanks everyone for the replies! So far, my last known seizure was in May when I didnt have alot of sleep the night prior. Ive noticed that I get the sadness feeling when I start to feel the symptoms of a seizure coming on. Within seconds of the symptoms starting, I get this feeling of fear and sadness. Then comes on the seizure. I see my neurologist at the end of August. So if anything changes, I will talk to him about it then! Thanks everyone!

 

[MuayThaiFighter]

My neuro picked up on my problems with the temporal seizures right away because of what I described. They still don't know if the seizures focalize in the frontal lobe as well but very much so in the temporal area. I can definetly say that at random times I will feel a very sad feeling for no real reason. If the emotion gets to heavy I tend to identify this as an aura and usually end up having a seizure shortly after. Sometimes the emotion is just bizzare, not a kind of sadness I could explain. Usually when this happens I fight it helpful to slow my breathing, for some reason I snap out of it very quickly. Hope you start feeling better.

 

[bandmom]

Sadness is a seizure?

My daughter has been having periods of sadness for nearly a year which coincided with her switch from Trileptal to Lamictal. We thought it was depression as a side effect of medication but her neurologist did suggest it could be that the sad feeling is a seizure itself, just not the usual kind she recognizes as a seizure. This actually makes sense the more I think about it, her original partial complex seizures were more likely to happen in the evening when she is tired, or when she wakes early for school. And now when she tells us she is sad (for no reason) it is also more likely at these times of day.