Non Epileptic Seizures Quotes

Psychologists need to be interested and learn about PNES so they can be a part of this field. The more people who are involved, the more people will become aware of it. It’s about education, education, education. Educating the public, the medical personnel and everyone across the board.

It is important to understand at the outset, that victims of abuse and other traumatic experiences, need to be able to express their feelings about their resulting trauma without feeling implicated as somehow complicit in the acts forced upon them. This, however, often becomes the case and survivors of extreme abuse and trauma are silenced before they ever have the chance to share their pain, anger or innocence. They become victims, not only of their abusers or of the events which caused their trauma, but of the judgments of a society too afraid to look at such heinous crimes against children for what they really are.

Today, I, and many others like me, still relive the traumas experienced during childhood, through dissociative (non-epileptic) seizures and PTSD, both of which cripple our lives into isolation, inactivity, depression and, often, total despair. Resulting psychological disorders like PNES are the mind’s way of protecting survivors from traumatic memories resulting from real and horrific childhood events.

It is hard, at times, to describe and explain PNES with strangers. It’s also hard because there is no warning for my next episode. Some other illnesses have “clues” to tell you that you may suffer from a flare up of the condition. It is the unknown that I really find very difficult to deal with.

Just organizing your environment can have a calming and stabilizing effect on your mind and reduce your anxiety levels.