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If your other half asks you if it's you or the meds after you drop something for the tenth time!
 
I Have dreams that I'm walking around nakad all the time, like it's normal. Well maybe in Europe. But my kid would freek out. lol
 
If you pour your milk on your toast and stir your coffee with the butter knife.

If you ask your mother five times the name of the pizza place you're walking to. Poor Mum.
 
When your doctor has such difficulty in understanding your symptoms that they make up and attribute to you a whole new set of symptoms dredged from the depths of their own imagination, which you at no point claimed to experience. Then, they attempt on the basis of the symptoms that only exist in their own imaginations to diagnose you with psychological problems. Finally, because you do not accept that you are crazy when they imagine things about you that are not true; they diagnose you with hypochondria on the basis that you won't let them make up your symptoms.
 
Rag said:
When your doctor has such difficulty in understanding your symptoms that they make up and attribute to you a whole new set of symptoms dredged from the depths of their own imagination, which you at no point claimed to experience. Then, they attempt on the basis of the symptoms that only exist in their own imaginations to diagnose you with psychological problems. Finally, because you do not accept that you are crazy when they imagine things about you that are not true; they diagnose you with hypochondria on the basis that you won't let them make up your symptoms.
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I had a doctor just tell me i need jesus
 
When you are 46yrs old and have to have your parents who are in thier 70's and 80's drive you places, because the town you live in is so small it doesn't have public transportation.
 
When your friends know what you're saying even when you're slurring your speech and it's not after a seizure.
 
...when you mean to say "I will have a large pinot, please" and it comes out very, VERY wrong! I know I shouldn't have a glass of wine but sometimes it's good to be social - but not THAT social and especially not in front of my mother! *hangs head in shame*
 
...when you are in the hospital and the nurse looks at you like she is about to transfer you to the psych ward. That is, until you explain focal seizures and what they look/sound like.

Apparently I said some nutty stuff. You'd think a nurse would already know about all types of seizures.
 
When your glad your Trileptal headaches give you an excuse not to have sex. Sorry husbands.
 
When your family member finds you pouring milk on the table and then watches as you try to keep it from flowing off by pushing back into the middle of the table.
 
C0urt said:
I had a doctor just tell me i need jesus
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Chel said:
Oh, mine tried to tell me I needed to find God this week (for my depression). Boy, did I give him "what for" LOL
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When you're actually perfectly familiar with the Divine Presence already, and it appears not so much to be a solution, as part of the problem. ;)
 
You know you have epilepsy when you wake up from a nap about to punch the hell of your girlfriend who is sleeping next to you, but you just had a small seizure and you are post-tical and can't talk, and because of the dream pissed at her and have to remind your self it was just a dream.

So then there is post seizure sex where the gf doesn't know you can't talk. I think that deserves points.
 
a few hand gestures that probably would have gotten me thrown out of high school.
 
Rag said:
When your doctor has such difficulty in understanding your symptoms that they make up and attribute to you a whole new set of symptoms dredged from the depths of their own imagination, which you at no point claimed to experience. Then, they attempt on the basis of the symptoms that only exist in their own imaginations to diagnose you with psychological problems. Finally, because you do not accept that you are crazy when they imagine things about you that are not true; they diagnose you with hypochondria on the basis that you won't let them make up your symptoms.
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I had this one happen, I had to video tape me sleeping to prove to the neurologist I actually was having seizures. Needless to say she believes me now.

As for this thread, well you know you have epilepsy when you're caught at 3 am sitting on the kitchen sink as if it were the toilet.
 
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