"A pharmacological link between epilepsy and anxiety?"

Chapouthier G, Venault P (October 2001). "A pharmacological link between epilepsy and anxiety?". Trends Pharmacol. Sci. 22 (10): 491–3. doi:10.1016/S0165-6147(00)01807-1. PMID 11583788.

 

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I found this very interesting personally because I had blunt trauma childhood epilepsy. I did not have anything I inherited but instead was from blunt force trauma to the head.

 

My personal experiences of seizures between age 10 and 15 always were usually when I was upset or disturbed about something. I was usually afraid and upset about a school final or something else in my life. In fact, if I wasn't really upset I usually would not have a seizure at all. So, I could usually feel one coming on days or weeks in advance. Mine usually occurred in the middle of the night when I was asleep which often created a near death experience. 

 

The worst experience was when I tried to run for my parents room when I was right in my body so it would be most like trying to run if you were drunk or altered in another way. So, because of this I ran into the edge of the door with my nose on my way to my parents room which broke my nose and gave me a concussion. I woke up in a pool of blood from my broken nose with my father trying to pry open my mouth with a butter knife so I wouldn't swallow my tongue. 

I guess the point of this is I definitely had a relationship between anxiety and seizures in my own blunt trauma childhood epilepsy began around age 10 when I had a paper route and had to give that up because of the onset of my seizures that ended suddenly when I was 15. No seizures at all ever since.

So, to repeat I knew when I likely was going to have a seizure by the level of my distress in regard to a test, final or whatever in school. I tended at that time to be an A Student. But by age 13 because of feeling somewhat suicidal because of the seizures which were sort of like being murdered each time (I don't think I would have survived seizures like this over 30 without a heart attack or a stroke ensuing) because having a seizure is the single most stressful thing I can imagine. The only comparison is someone killing you with a knife in the heart or an electric chair. 

However, this ended permanently when I was 15.

 

However, between the ages of 13 to 15 my grades tended to drop because I thought I was going to die in one of my seizures. In high school my grades again were mostly B or better.