Kind of a strange question, maybe?

[DancesWithPugs1980]

I posted in my intro thread that I'm not 100% sure I have partial seizures, but things seem to point in that direction. And also can't afford to see a doctor (no insurance, and pretty much broke).

My question is this: When you first started getting them did you think it was supernatural? Like, any kind of supernatural phenomenon. When these episodes, for lack of a better term, began, I thought my parents house was haunted (I was in my mid-teens). I thought there was some kind of ghost or entity messing with me. But then they kept happening after I moved out, and still happen to this day (and increasing in frequency lately).

Remembering that, I remember a childhood friend of mine thought he was possessed. He confessed that fear to me when we were around 12 or 13-ish. Several years later through talking to him, he told me has epilepsy, and he's one of the people who told me that the things I experience sound like seizures.

So, I was just wondering if anybody thought the same type of thing? Like I said in the title... kind of a weird question? But I'm curious if many other people had the same thoughts.

 

[LW6279]

What makes you think it is siezures? It just could be supernatural too. What kind of things are happening. I have siezures but also I do gost hunting.

 

[arnie]

I was officially diagnosed with E just over 30 years ago when I had a t/c that was witnessed by my wife. Over the next 6 months or so, between having lots of medical tests, talking to my parents, looking at family history and remembering episodes from my childhood, it seems that I have probably had epilepsy for much of my life. I'm pretty sure I had the deja vu feelings, the odd twists of reality, issues with occasional episodes of heightened sense of smell and odd sounds that I know were from inside my head. I guess I just thought that those were things that everyone experienced. I never thought about possession or anything supernatural at all. I was not raised in a family or culture that believed in those things so I suppose that was a big part of the reason I never considered that. I still don't believe in any of that, although I do believe in a supernatural realm of some sort, and that there are things that cannot be explained scientifically, at least not yet, so I guess from my perspective I would say no, I don't think there is anything supernatural involved with seizure activity.

 

[DancesWithPugs1980]

What makes you think it is siezures? It just could be supernatural too. What kind of things are happening. I have siezures but also I do gost hunting.

I posted about that on my "I meant to be brief, but I wrote a novel" intro thread lol. But in a nutshell, what at least led me to NOT believe that it was supernatural phenomena was that it kept happening even after I moved out of the home that I thought was haunted. That and nobody else in my family experienced the same thing, or even anything remotely similar. These days I'm pretty skeptical about supernatural phenomena (no offense!), but I'm not completely closed minded to the idea.

Arnie- That's a very good point. When someone isn't raised in an atmosphere where neither supernatural or religion comes into play, I guess that's a thought that wouldn't cross someone's mind. I was raised in a pretty strict religious household, so when my friend told me he thought he was possessed, it never occurred to me that it could be anything else. 'Course, we were also kids and highly impressionable. Neither one of us are religious anymore, for what it's worth.

I no longer think it's supernatural all these years later. But I was just thinking... if I thought that's what it was, maybe there's someone out there that thought the same thing? But... on the other-hand I was kind of the "weird goth kid" when I was in high school, so maybe it's just me lol.

 

[Cint]

My seizures started as CP's. And I was 22 years old. Before they progressed into TC's I knew something terrible was wrong, although never did I think it was something supernatural. I knew it was something going on inside my own body. I had gone to a dr. and he first diagnosed me as hypoglycemic. A month later, I experience my first TC and have been struggling with it ever since.

Once upon a time Epilepsy was considered the "Sacred Disease" and it was believed that those who had it were possessed by evil spirits or touched by gods with supernatural powers. Some foreign countries still believe it. But science has proven otherwise.