Epilepsy Talk
How Music Soothes Your Seizures…
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Music is food for the soul, the mind and the body.
Great music, when carefully selected, can change our moods, energize us, calm us, improve our mental focus, lift us up spiritually, and help us become more healthy.
Not surprisingly, music has also been found to have a profoundly positive effect on people with epilepsy.
Tags: epilepsy - music's effects, Jazz, Mozart, New Age, Romantic, seizures - music therapy
You’re a poet and you don’t know it…
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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.
The surprise of epilepsy as a songwriter loses his music
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I always quote how music soothes your seizures.
But what about when it stops and the agony begins?
“Pseudo Seizures” AND Epilepsy – Yes, You CAN Have BOTH!
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Some know it as non-epileptic seizures (NES), psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), or “pseudo seizures”.
And then there’s epilepsy.
Which is what?
Epilepsy Verses “Pseudo Seizures”
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Epilepsy is not a dirty word. Neither is “pseudo-seizures.”
But they both coexist, side by side.
One of the most common complications is the misconception that people who suffer from “pseudo seizures” are hypochondriacs, hysterics, or “faking it.”
Tags: "pseudo-seizures", epilepsy and NES, Epilepsy and PNES, Non Epilepstic Seizures
Epilepsy and Melatonin – Yes? No? Or Maybe So?
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Most of us are familiar with melatonin and it’s purpose: To help you sleep. Or at least to help you get to sleep.
In fact, melatonin is one of the most commonly used supplements in the United States. (Lots of sleepless people out there!)
Common painkillers may fuel deadly superbugs that resist antibiotics
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A startling new study warns that two of America’s most common over-the-counter painkillers, ibuprofen (Advil) and acetaminophen (Tylenol), may have an unexpected role in one of the world’s most urgent public health crises.
In the United States, more than 2.8 million antimicrobial-resistant infections occur each year, and more than 35,000 people die as a result, says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Tags: acetaminophen (Tylenol), common painkillers, deadly superbugs, ibuprofen (Advil)
Kindling — A Fire for Your Brain?
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When you think of “kindling,” think of confusing. Controversy. Cure.
No, it’s not the little twigs for a bonfire!
But the name “kindling” was inspired by a log fire.
A cat’s prayer…
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Just recently, we lost our cat. It was way too soon.
So, I wrote this down to try to express exactly what I feel…
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