katrine wrote:
Triangular_Trees wrote:
When i have my seizures, I'm most apt to punch/kick people while accusing them of doing something to me. When I was little I was punching my sister, claiming she had stolen my sock. During my last seizure i was punching the doctors at the hospital as I honestly believed they were torturing me - I was defending myself. The doctors didn't see it that way though and tied me to the bed which is just about the worst response they could have had
Wow - this sounds like my son, what kind of epilepsy do you have? He has temperal lobe epilepsy, and used to have horrific rages where he accused us, doctors, teachers ect. of torturing him. But I never connected him accusing people of other things (like pushing him) with epilepsy, so please tell me more!!
I voted sometimes, but maybe this really relates to comorbid epilepsy and ADHD and the behaviour this leads to - after getting these two conditions under control, he's very much changed.
Complex partial in the right frontal temporal lobe. I'm not sure if thats the only kind I've ever had though, as I was diagnosed with epilepsy at 6 months old, and had seizures off and on throughout my childhood.
The only seizure I remember myself is the one where I thought the doctors were torturing me. I saw myself lying on a cold metal table in an operating room, with three male doctors standing in front of me. They were holding a giant drill -type thing and sticking it in me. Then they were laughing at the pain they caused. if not for the fact that I know that couldn't possibly have happened without my being injured, I definately would have been very vocal about it - ie writing letters to the hospital director, encouraging my family to sue the doctors, etc. The memory seems completely real. I don't remember any of the other attacks - I've just been told about them
I just happened to look up frontal lobe damage, and looking at the results of that, makes it seem very likely that any seizure in the frontal lobes can cause someone to accuse and attack another. Though you would of course want to check with a neurologist on that. I also know that swearing something happened, when everyone else said it never did, is one of the signs of having a seizure.
21 Jan 2008, 4:01 pm
