Dealing with epileptic anxiety

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Having epilepsy doesnt mean your life has to stop. When i first got the news i had epilepsy to be quite frank...i was glad the pieces started finally fitting. All these unexplained twitchings and collapses, being asked who i was, did i remember my name, terrified that guys i had crushes on would actually witness one of my seizures. Strangely enough my mentality is what saved me, and the support of my family. I was very popular in school. Very feisty, fearless, always getting into fights and scrapes with somebody over something. Very likable. For many years of having the illness, epilepsy wasn't even on the menu. It wasn't even my focus. In high school i remember being so popular that when i had my first seizure school was buzzing with the news of it, and even the people who didn't like me were genuinely concerned. It was strange because at that time it hadn't impacted me in any  real way. I just knew that doctors attached these flamboyant coloured wires to my head to check my brain waves, i'd see a specialist to talk about how i was coping with stress every so often and at times i was asked to keep a journal to write down how long my seizures lasted, and the sensations i felt before i had a seizure. The older i get the more i'm starting to think that for the more stubborn, easily stressed, highly emotional of us, epilepsy is your brains way of telling your body to calm down. Take a break. A pause, relax for a bit, Wind down, all those twitches, or may be absent seizures are your brains way of telling your body....listen you need to take it elsewhere. Release your mental frustrations. Be it soothing music, a break from the screen or laptop, free some of the tension, one of the leading triggers of seizures...is stress.....RELAX!! Some meditation might even do the trick