I'm 27yrs old and recently got diagnosed with epilepsy in March 2013 and already I feel so alone, although I have supportive family members, they just don’t understand.
Specifically..…my mother, who I’m living with.
Too say she is religious and believe in the healing power of prayer is an understatement, I already have to deal with her thinking my epilepsy is due to evil spirits and can be healed and be gone from religious/spiritual rituals.
My mother is self-employed and her business hasn’t been going great lately, so with rent and other bills she is stressed, and has said to me more than once in the past two weeks, “You don’t know what I’m going through!”
I was supposed to graduate with a Bachelor’s from Florida Atlantic University in May of this year, had money, a car and was looking forward to starting my career and life….all of that is gone now, my car, my education, money, and now my health.
We were in the leasing office of her apartment complex filling out paper work adding me to the lease, we had a disagreement about a particular question on the lease, and she responds to me, “You don’t understand what I’m going through; I wish you were in my place”.
I had my 14th unconscious complex seizure last night and vomited on my bed for the third time since my seizures started, I didn’t tell my mother, and we get into an argument this morning over a lease and she looks at me and says that.
Switch Places, really?
She can’t, won’t, and still has not said to me, “I know you have epilepsy and it is a medical problem and nothing else.
After what she said to me, to say I “feel” alone….is an understatement, I AM COMPLETELY ALONE!!!!
:sad:
Specifically..…my mother, who I’m living with.
Too say she is religious and believe in the healing power of prayer is an understatement, I already have to deal with her thinking my epilepsy is due to evil spirits and can be healed and be gone from religious/spiritual rituals.
My mother is self-employed and her business hasn’t been going great lately, so with rent and other bills she is stressed, and has said to me more than once in the past two weeks, “You don’t know what I’m going through!”
I was supposed to graduate with a Bachelor’s from Florida Atlantic University in May of this year, had money, a car and was looking forward to starting my career and life….all of that is gone now, my car, my education, money, and now my health.
We were in the leasing office of her apartment complex filling out paper work adding me to the lease, we had a disagreement about a particular question on the lease, and she responds to me, “You don’t understand what I’m going through; I wish you were in my place”.
I had my 14th unconscious complex seizure last night and vomited on my bed for the third time since my seizures started, I didn’t tell my mother, and we get into an argument this morning over a lease and she looks at me and says that.
Switch Places, really?
She can’t, won’t, and still has not said to me, “I know you have epilepsy and it is a medical problem and nothing else.
After what she said to me, to say I “feel” alone….is an understatement, I AM COMPLETELY ALONE!!!!
:sad:
