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writes:Im so depressed and annoyed. Im a very self conscious person who had epilepsy as a child. It left me as an adolescent thankfully, but in the last 3 years, my seizures have returned so I have been diagnosed with epilepsy again. Unfortunately I had one in work recently and I was certified off sick but I am due back soon. The thoughts of it are daunting me as I'm so embarrassed it happened infront of colleagues. They knew I had it but the last thing I wanted was them to witness it... Help
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reader, Emilysanswers  +, writes (9 November 2008):
Seeing a seizure makes you realise how they could believe someone was possessed back in the old days.
There is no way anyone is going to laugh at you because they will just have been freaked out by it.
My friend who has them says she just feels like she's fainted and then comes round to see a lot of traumatised, horrified looking people over her.
They will probably treat you a bit oddly because they will want to wrap you in cotton wool but as soon as you act normally and call yourself a big Spaz they'll laugh and everything will be ok.
It might inspire your bosses to send a couple of people on a first aid course which can only be a good thing.
Good Luck!! xx
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reader, Cowboy +, writes (9 November 2008):
My best mate has really bad epilepsy, and I've seen him have quite a few seizures.
Let me tell you that nobody will be thinking you looked stupid, seeing someone having a fit is not funny, it scares the sh*t out of you because you think you're watching someone die.
I know that you won't know what you do during a fit, but if you're anything like my mate, it's probably not as energetic as you imagine it to be.
In most of the fits I've seen him have, it was mostly his left arm that was twitching. and there were a few small jerks of the rest of his body, sort of like he was sneezing. He doesn't thrash around wildly or anything.
I'm pretty certain that everyone who witnessed your fit had more of a traumatic time than you did (you would have been unconscious after all...) and rather than be amused by it, they would probably have been a little shaken up.
People on the whole are generally nice. When you go back to work, I think you'll find that everyone will be relieved to see that you're ok.
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reader, anonymous, writes (9 November 2008): I do sympathise with you having to face this. But there is more to you than epilepsy and I'm sure your workmates will be okay about it.
It may be a consolation to you to know that what you feared has happened so you will no longer fear it. Sometimes the fear is worse than the thing happening.
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