What are the main symptoms? Can i get it in older age? I'm 25 and I feel some symptoms but I want to confirm

What’s the difference between seizures and epilepsy? Are they the same?

It's epilepsy awareness month. There are a few factors in play that may give a person a higher chance of developing epilepsy including brain infection, age, and having seizures in your childhood that were not caused by epilepsy.

My sister is diagnosed with epilepsy.. can you share some positive stories about coping? She's depressed now

People often say pain is temporary as a motivator but it’s not true for everyone.

”But you don’t look sick”. Maybe I don’t, and that’s both to my advantage and disadvantage. People don’t perceive me as ”sick” and treat me as a normal-functioning person. However, they don’t see everything that’s going on on the inside, therefore they treat me as if nothing is wrong. How could they know? I don’t just go and shout from rooftops that I have epilepsy. Many wouldn’t know what that means and treat me like an alien. But I’m sick and that’s facto. For me and many others, epilepsy is an invisible disability. It’s not always obvious that a person has the condition unless they have a seizure - pretty much the definition of my case.

To live a happy and full life, it's important to learn how epilepsy can affect you, your rights and responsibilities, and how to find support and resources. Epilepsy is so much more than seizures. Below the surface, living with epilepsy can mean days spent in bed, missed appointments, and alternate days when we seem 'fine'. There's so much more to epilepsy than meets the eye. We know that epilepsy comes with hundreds of possible combinations of symptoms, many of which appear invisible to outsiders. Most people don't see the many signs that the people living with this condition experience. In order to break the stigma, it is necessary to maximize visibility of this disease. The more we know, the more understanding and empathy for those affected.💜🙌