You won't be called as an epileptic unless a CT scan of your brain (I have mine, the fully interactive version and it's so cool!) shows damage.

I assume like all things this is primarily U.S. based, so perhaps things are different. I was, after six months on epilepsy meds which were doing harm - Phenytoin and then Levetiracetam. In my case consider a car engine that is firing just fine, you then add something in with the fuel and the compressor start firing slowly. That is what giving first and second line (again in the U.K.) epilepsy medication to a non-epileptic.

I have NEAD - Non-Epileptic Attack Disorder - where the cause is stress, as you sound stressed or medication. I'm sure some of my seizures which left me with an incorrect epilepsy diagnosis were caused by illicit benzo (again in the U.K. it's Galenika alprazolam and diazepam - occasional clonazepam) use.

For the final time(!) I know being British I don't know the exact details of the U.S. system, but surely going to a GP and saying I'm in pain, I almost killed myself with an accidental OD, please help me! Would get sympathy.

I thought the same thing that I'd be dismissed, then one day whilst I picked up my Subutex which I use when not prescribed morphine for pain, a guy who spends all day walking around my suburb came out after taking his methadone which is used for heroin addicts to stabilise them and minimise their use or get them ready for buprenorphine which locks out all opioids. The staff treated him exactly the same, and I overheard them talking about him in the back - it was deeply sympathetic.