Epilepsy Talk
You’re a poet and you don’t know it… | September 15, 2025
Inside of you is something special waiting to break out.
Maybe you’re an artist…actor…architect…painter…poet…
philosopher…singer…or someone you just don’t know.
Because, quite simply, there’s another side to that electrical mischief that epilepsy produces.
Some types of epilepsy can spark inspiration, enhance creativity and bring out the latent artist in you.
It’s just waiting to be discovered.
In fact, researchers claim that often these surprise talents are often associated with temporal lobe epilepsy.
In this case, the sides of the brain, where memory and feelings reside, are intermittently seized by those “electrical storms” which produce the spark.
Although the seizures may be undetectable to observers, they can prompt hallucinations, religion, fury, fear, joy and an unquenchable desire to create, even after the seizure is over.
Just look at Leonardo Da Vinci…Richard Burton…Edward Leary…Lewis Carroll…Chandra Gunn…Susan Boyle…Prince…Danny Glover…Tony Coelho…Lindsey Buckingham…Bobby Jones…Jason Snelling…Rick Harrison…Katie Hopkins…George Gershwin…Joan of Arc, the sky’s the limit!
So you may not know it, but you may have some surprise artistic talents hidden away.
Give it a try. Dabble a little.
Try a little drawing, painting, writing, singing, acting, or whatever talent moves you.
It’s exciting, energizing, rewarding, all-encompassing, and I must admit, a wonderful escape.
Like turning lemons into lemonade!
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Would love to hear more about the “why” Why does the creative spark happen? How to keep it going… Do you have some resources? Thank you so much!! Have a beautiful day ❤️ Sue
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Comment by Sue Keenan — September 15, 2025 @ 12:49 PM
I find that for many, that electrical spark, is literally what spikes creativity.
I found that when my epilepsy was at its worst, my poetry was at its apex.
Coincidence? I don’t think so.
My research is only in the stories and works of others.
Many times, a breakthrough brings creativity.
And oftentimes you just have to listen to yourself and let your imagination run free!
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Comment by Phylis Feiner Johnson — September 15, 2025 @ 1:01 PM
I do believe our own need for transformation brings on so much creative flow🙏❤️. Wishing you the best and would love to see more of your poetry. What an inspiration to the page/group🙏🙏 Sue Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer
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Comment by Sue Keenan — September 15, 2025 @ 1:20 PM
I agree with you about transformation lighting up a creative fire.
Sometimes what can be so ugly, can inspire a work that’s breathtaking in its beauty.
My poetry is anything but breathtaking. It’s kind of pedestrian.
You can see bits and pieces here.
But if you really want me to let lose, email pfj@pfjohnson.com in about a month.
(I’m at the beach and my poetry journals are at home.)
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Comment by Phylis Feiner Johnson — September 15, 2025 @ 1:34 PM
Omgosh❤️❤️❤️enjoy the beautiful beach and all it fills you with!! So nice talking with you! Have a beautiful day! Sue
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Comment by Sue Keenan — September 15, 2025 @ 1:41 PM
It IS inspiring – I have to admit it. But right now I’m reading and working (as usual) on Epilepsy Talk. Which is where my present inspiration lies. ♥️
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Comment by Phylis Feiner Johnson — September 15, 2025 @ 1:52 PM
I hope it brings you joy and blessings. Thank you for all you do with your research and resources. Sue❤️🙏
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Comment by Sue Keenan — September 15, 2025 @ 2:08 PM
YOU are my joy and inspiration!
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Comment by Phylis Feiner Johnson — September 15, 2025 @ 2:14 PM
Thank you🙏❤️
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Comment by Sue Keenan — September 17, 2025 @ 5:00 PM
Also the immortal creative talent Fyodor Dostoevsky, who wrote one if his greatest novels (The Idiot) about a protagonist (Prince Myshkin) with epilepsy—and Julius Caesar, whom we may not remember as a writer, and yet he wrote the beautifully composed memoir, Gallic Wars, which every Latin student reads.
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Comment by Arthur Johnson — September 15, 2025 @ 2:01 PM
Arthur, I never knew about Julius Caesar as a writer, no less his memoir Gallic Wars!
Thanks for the insight. It’s fun learning all these facts!
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Comment by Phylis Feiner Johnson — September 15, 2025 @ 2:20 PM
P.S. Caesar was likely not born with epilepsy, but undoubtedly sustained serious blows to the head in combat. Like Alexander the Great, Caesar was famous for leading his legions into battle.
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Comment by Arthur Johnson — September 15, 2025 @ 2:04 PM