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Hello, lavish ladies and lovely lads. It is a privilege and honour to be welcomed into your ranks.
My name is Carolyn, but most call me Caz. One friend in particular dubbed me Casbah, of Rocking the Casbah fame, but as I am neither Algerian nor a large citadel type structure, I have stuck to the Cazbar spelling.
I'm a 26 year old Australian girl who lives in the lower north shore of Sydney. It's a lovely place to live and I feel so lucky to be here. I grew up a couple of hours south of Sydney in a more rural area, but I am a city girl at heart and can't imagine living anywhere else.
I am currently studying my Masters degree in writing whilst working full time running the practices of some consultant psychiatrists in a psychiatric hospital. I love reading, writing, film and television. My ideal job is to one day be a successful television screenwriter who, in her spare time, pens amusing misanthropic comedy novels and addictive chick lit whilst dabbling in film and stage productions. I've been told this is highly unrealistic. I'm okay with that.
I was officially diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy about two and a half to three years ago, although I know that I have had it for a lot longer than that. Because it only ever manifested itself as simple partials (and still has, fingers crossed), I never really understood what was happening to me as a child, so I never thought to speak to anyone about it. It was only after I had started working for my psychiatrists a few years back that I became familiar with terms such as "derealisation", "depersonalisation" and "dissociation", and then when I got my first seizure since my adolescence, I at once understood that I was having a neurological event and began to research. I diagnosed myself and, not long after, I saw a neurologist where my hunch was confirmed.
Part of the reason I am here is to understand what it is like for other sufferers, particularly those with more severe seizures. I know I am unspeakably lucky to have had such a mild course up until now. I am also writing a small work as part of my university studies about the experience of a seizure from the sufferer's perspective, and how to convey that event in a written text (likely a screenplay) - because it bugs the bajeezuz out of me that all I ever see about epilepsy on film and tv is taken from the perspective of the observer of the seizure! They never focus on how it affects the sufferer at the time, only the way in which it impacts on people around them, and that needs to change. Who's with me? *grabs a pitchfork and flaming torch*
My name is Carolyn, but most call me Caz. One friend in particular dubbed me Casbah, of Rocking the Casbah fame, but as I am neither Algerian nor a large citadel type structure, I have stuck to the Cazbar spelling.
I'm a 26 year old Australian girl who lives in the lower north shore of Sydney. It's a lovely place to live and I feel so lucky to be here. I grew up a couple of hours south of Sydney in a more rural area, but I am a city girl at heart and can't imagine living anywhere else.
I am currently studying my Masters degree in writing whilst working full time running the practices of some consultant psychiatrists in a psychiatric hospital. I love reading, writing, film and television. My ideal job is to one day be a successful television screenwriter who, in her spare time, pens amusing misanthropic comedy novels and addictive chick lit whilst dabbling in film and stage productions. I've been told this is highly unrealistic. I'm okay with that.
I was officially diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy about two and a half to three years ago, although I know that I have had it for a lot longer than that. Because it only ever manifested itself as simple partials (and still has, fingers crossed), I never really understood what was happening to me as a child, so I never thought to speak to anyone about it. It was only after I had started working for my psychiatrists a few years back that I became familiar with terms such as "derealisation", "depersonalisation" and "dissociation", and then when I got my first seizure since my adolescence, I at once understood that I was having a neurological event and began to research. I diagnosed myself and, not long after, I saw a neurologist where my hunch was confirmed.
Part of the reason I am here is to understand what it is like for other sufferers, particularly those with more severe seizures. I know I am unspeakably lucky to have had such a mild course up until now. I am also writing a small work as part of my university studies about the experience of a seizure from the sufferer's perspective, and how to convey that event in a written text (likely a screenplay) - because it bugs the bajeezuz out of me that all I ever see about epilepsy on film and tv is taken from the perspective of the observer of the seizure! They never focus on how it affects the sufferer at the time, only the way in which it impacts on people around them, and that needs to change. Who's with me? *grabs a pitchfork and flaming torch*
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