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Sunday, July 27, 2025

Do not try to stop the seizure

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Epilep­sy. A scary word, full of imag­ined im­pli­ca­tions: shame, em­bar­rass­ment, fear and anger. Yet so com­mon a dis­ease. If in­ter­na­tion­al fig­ures hold up–and why should they not; the hu­man con­di­tion is the same every­where, we be­ing more sim­i­lar than dis­sim­i­lar–one in every 100 Trinida­di­ans prob­a­bly is or has been epilep­tic. More, about ten per cent of peo­ple have had a seizure at some time of their lives, seizures be­ing iso­lat­ed events that do not re­cur. A seizure does not mean you have epilep­sy. Epilep­sy hap­pens again and again so epilep­sy is de­fined as re­cur­rent seizures.

Epilep­sy or re­cur­rent seizures hap­pen when some­thing goes awry with­in the brain, that huge, won­der­ful or­gan that we dam­age with med­ica­tions and poi­sons and pol­lu­tion, with­in and out­side the womb. The rea­son it­self we are born at nine months and not 18, as we should, able to run with our moth­ers...That brain con­trols every­thing we do or feel. The brain is di­vid­ed in­to spe­cialised sec­tions or lobes that con­trol every feel­ing or func­tion from see­ing to walk­ing to think­ing and smelling and feel­ing. It's com­posed of spe­cialised cells called neu­rons and their ap­pendages, one to re­ceive mes­sages from oth­er neu­rons and one to send mes­sages.


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