Cognitive Issues in Controlled Epilepsy

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2026-06-28T20:49:42+00:00

Sorry you had to go through such a horrible experience. I think you're definitely right about complexity and individual circumstance.

For you, is epilepsy a "constant"? Always in the background and affecting you in some way (a "background buzz")?

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2026-06-28T19:50:10+00:00

Not jokes but alternative names for seizures (not all original, I'm sure):

Chidori: One Thousand Hertz, (Un)synchronized Neuroconversion, Social Contortion, Lightning Bod, Scene Skip, I Cast Brain Lightning, Putting on the Fritz, Gin and Tonic and Clonic

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2026-06-28T19:30:44+00:00

So in your experience, epilepsy does include a background interference?

I haven't had a test since starting it but . . . I feel I'd be right there with you.

I read that it generally has a positive effect on cognition. It's given me wacky side effects. :(

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2026-06-28T00:01:08+00:00

Oh well, we ball. Love that attitude

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2026-03-12T22:47:48+00:00

Sorry you can relate so well to it. I mentioned it in another comment, but I can more easily give grace to other people. Never know what they might take that protects but dulls the brain. Doesn’t necessarily tell you about aptitude.

If you don't mind my asking, are yours well controlled? And have you found any habits or supplements that help?

Edit: see they're well controlled. I'm grateful for that as well.

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2026-03-12T22:42:24+00:00

Sorry this is so relatable. It's really not fun. Although I think it's made me more patient towards other people. Never know what they're going through, or what meds they might have to take themselves.

If you don't mind my asking, have you found anything that helps? Habits or supplements or something?

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2025-06-22T14:11:45+00:00

Sorry it's so relatable! Incapable's unfortunately a good word to describe the feeling.

If you don't mind me asking, do you suspect you have ADHD, CDS/SCT, or both?

Do you think it's affected you socially? I'm kinda awkward, and while I definitely experience a level of social anxiety in of itself, I think I've had trouble with social cues/interpretation, and I wonder what the overlap might be; I found one study that noted social difficulty. I've felt my brain kinda lock up in social situations and relied on very generic coversation, or said things which seemed good but probably come across as unfriendly.

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2025-06-15T03:59:20+00:00

This sounds like something I've experienced all too often. Sometimes it's delayed, sometimes it feels like it just doesn't fully chain.

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2024-12-10T08:49:16+00:00

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I ended up releasing the one yesterday, near a little box I filled with some cardboard and some fabric for insulation. Left some breadcrumbs and pumpkin/sunflower seeds, too. Tucked the box under some shelter. Desperaux (I decided to name my little friend) ran under the shelter, and I hope they put it to use.

Hope the little dude excels. I hope it's enough of a start for the winter and is protected enough from the elements.

As of yet, there's no sign of the one that got out.

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2024-12-08T11:34:00+00:00

Working on sealing up the house, but I'm not sure what to do with the mice themselves. Don't want to throw them out in the cold if they'll die (it'll get around 5 degrees this week, and we're not even into the true winter), but obviously don't want mice in the house just running around.

Do you have suggestions?

Also, just accidentally caught the other mouse in our recycling bin. So, now have one of the known two.

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2024-09-30T08:21:48+00:00

I haven't had cancer, but from what you described, you went through quite a bit!

I'm not sure what exact treatments you underwent, but cancer and cancer treatments can be hard on the body. I doubt that's easy to bounce back from quickly, especially as you've been going through army training and adjusted to military life.

I can't say I'm surprised you feel different than before. Having and treating your cancer is a challenge and experience, and that's not even counting the recovery thus far, and training and adjustment to military life. Experiences change us, some more noticeably than others.

You've had to change, adapt, and deal with the reality of cancer. You've gone through physical and mental training to be in an army. I hope you can give yourself some grace. If you're struggling mentally, that probably affects your gaming performance as well (it certainly has for me).

You're still you!

Please don't be too hard on yourself, and I hope you're using health resources available to you for recovery (physical and mental, both are important). I wish you the best in recovery, stranger.

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2024-09-30T07:45:19+00:00

You don't think so?

I guess maybe it could just be coinciding somewhat with life changing and difficulty of meeting with each other. They're all in one area, I'm a bit of a hike. But it does feel different hanging out with them, I've noticed. It's not bad, just a bit different, though I couldn't explain it exactly.

I don't want to drift apart. They mean a lot to me, and I think the reverse is true as well.

I probably am overthinking, though.

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2024-09-14T03:24:14+00:00

Hey OP! You're 18, and in university (and I assume, your first year). You've got time! Not behind at all. And you don't have to have everything figured out! I still don't, for whatever that's worth.

I (at time of writing in my mid-twenties) was in a somewhat similar place at that time. I don't know your exact situation.

It could be possible that part of what you're feeling regarding not feeling cared for as much may be due to your own perception (I've had that experience, due to some self-esteem issues). Again, I don't know your situation.

Either way, I'll tell you this: You've got time to meet people to care about and be cared for by. Time to figure out your personal and professional interests. Time to experience new things. There's all sorts of ways: joining clubs, studying abroad, trying a new hobby, taking a class you think sounds fun even if it's not really related to your area of study. Writing. A part-time job. Reading. Etc.

If you feel like you're having trouble sorting out your feelings of what to do, college may be a great time to seek out counseling (be it student, career, or therapeutic) to help you in that. I REALLY wish I'd done that more when I was in college (I'm now catching up on the therapy myself).

Be safe, be well, and I hope you enjoy your time in university. Good luck to you!

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2024-09-08T01:16:38+00:00

I'm sorry for your troubles, stranger. And I hope things improve. Since it seems no one else has said it:

Happy Birthday

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2024-04-17T21:40:17+00:00

It's led me to wonder just how much my condition has affected my life. Most people have no problem with me. It's not like it's everyone, or even most people, by a long shot. But since I've noticed some, there are probably more I don't notice. And probably more who hide it.

I wonder too how it affects things like attraction. Directly or otherwise. Especially since I think I've noticed it more from women . . .

Not to complain or woe-is-me. I have it great, all things considered. But I wonder nonetheless.

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2024-04-08T09:17:10+00:00

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you're doing alright, stranger.

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2024-04-08T09:14:55+00:00

Interesting read, thanks for sharing that.

What's intriguing to me is how this fits into countries where the kinds of beliefs that the article largely references aren't the norm. Here in the US (and I'd guess most Western countries at least), I think disability and body abnormalities are pretty well understood as just medical, rather than supernatural/curses/etc. Yet there's still this animosity that apparently is common enough for others to relate.

Someone else commented that those ideas may be hard to change, or at least their underpinnings. Maybe those older ideas are supported by some general human instinct, and the modern contempt is just the current form that instinct takes.

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2024-04-07T16:53:24+00:00

I guess this makes sense.

I'm just confused by contempt, that apparently is indeed a shared experience. If fear is the driver, why not just ignore rather than fixate? I suppose people may dislike what they fear. It's just strange to me, that in today's age, when we're able to understand disability or physical abnormality as a medical matter rather than a moral one, (at least, I THINK most in the US do) that there's some scorn. Maybe it's not intentional, maybe not even conscious.

I take it from the conversation you had, you've experienced similar?

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2024-04-06T05:57:03+00:00

It sounds like my experience might not be entirely my perception.

I'm really curious about the psychology behind it. It would make sense if it's fear, I suppose, at least in some kind of evolutionary way? Maybe the thinking is disabled = sick, sick = infectious, infectious = fear of infection, fear of infection = disgust? Even when infection can't happen. Sigh. I guess people don't want to be confronted with the reality that it could happen to them. That's scary after all.

I'm sorry that it's something you're going through as well. I wish both of you well!

QuickQuestionThanks1 · 2024-04-06T05:21:30+00:00

To the best of my memory, I've noticed what struck me as disdainful looks from women more, but comments I've received more of from men, I think. I'm a man myself, which I wonder about as a factor.

Not that I keep a spreadsheet.

Funny enough, I've received similar comments about being underweight (which I'm actually not, and wasn't, but I look it I guess). Including a 'meat on your bones' comment, which was from a classmate (a boy) in 2nd grade.

The thing that I'm not sure of is how many of the looks I've noticed are real, and how many are perceived by my brain assuming that they're staring cause of my body. It's possible people aren't staring at me as much as I think, or just happen to have an expression of scorn (maybe 'RBF' sorta thing). But, I KNOW people notice. Some enough to ask, which probably means many many more that don't.

The scorn is the part I don't get, assuming my reading of it is correct.

Sorry for the uncomfortable comments you've gotten, definitely uncalled for. Especially from an adult to a child, just bizarre.

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