Could be nothing, try not to overthink it.
I have the same spaced out feeling and my EEG came back normal.
I have the same spaced out feeling and my EEG came back normal.
That was a good read, Thankyou Forest , I am currently having CBT for DP/DR and so now this letter has reversed everything I have been doing " if clinical suspicion of epilepsy continues".Never had a seizure? I'm willing to bet you don't know what a seizure is, and wouldn't know one if you had it. If I'm correct, then you would be like me. I had seizures for 30 years without knowing it. I thought they were panic attacks, or anxiety attacks. But I will never forget how it started with something I would identify decades later as an abdominal aura/epigastric aura. There could be no mistaking those symptoms, which are a mild seizure that precedes a full blown temporal lobe seizure. You don't have to lose consciousness and foam at your mouth to have suffered a seizure. The person beside you could have a seizure and you might not even notice. Absence seizures can appear as a simple episode of daydreaming. My EEG showed significant pathology in my temporal lobe suggesting I had a history of seizure. No interictal epileptiform discharges simply means the EEG did not detect activity indicating a seizure had occurred during the EEG. The clinical suspicion of epilepsy may come from your general symptoms, or the letter is inaccurate to say that slow wave irregularity is not suggestive of a possible seizure disorder. A sleep deprived EEG would seek to stress your brain out and cause a seizure so that it could be detected. A time study EEG might cover a 2 day period hoping to detect epileptiform (spike) activity in your brain.
You have been severely mentally ill for many years, but never got an EEG? When I was at the mental hospital, this was one of the first things they did.I think I might have to have an EEG then, not trouble shot for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy as yet.
Thank you for this.Regarding ECT; although you report feeling better afterwards, there are two sides to every story. I feel its my duty to tell the other side...
You should take into account that Peter Breggin isn't someone who should be taken seriously:Regarding ECT; although you report feeling better afterwards, there are two sides to every story. I feel its my duty to tell the other side...
I also think there is some dishonesty among psychiatrists surrounding the side-effects of electroconvulsive therapy. For most people the side-effects might be benign in the long run, but I don't see a reason to doubt the validity of the horror stories. I'm sure that if treatments like kappa-opioid-antagonists and Rapastinel don't help me, I'm going to try ECT as well. But due to the risks and consider it the last resort.But at the hospital all they mention is that "some people have memory loss for the events immediately preceding ECT", and many are unprepared about what could happen.
It was discovered by chance that seizures can work for certain mental disorders. Nobody really understands why yet.I also don't understand the logic that intentionally giving someone a seizure is supposed to FIX their brain. There is a difference between feeling better and being healthy.