Alright, I'm 18 years old and am a HUGE worrier. I have a sort of anxiety disorder similar to my mother and have been going through a huge worrying period lately. Seizures have scared me evr since I witnessed one in grade 8. Anyways, I get deja vu every now and then and read somewhere that it can be a form of simple partial seizure, so should I be scared. I mean I've talked to my friends, who have said they get deja vu all the time, but for some reason ever since reading that it could be a type of seizure it scares me. It's kinda like a rare thing for me, not EXTREMELY rare, but rare as in it doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes when it happens I'll feel like something bad is going to happen. I mean to me it's almost as if I've connected so many bad things to deja vu from reading stuff about seizures that if I get deja vu it just scares me for a bit because I think it's something more. Anyways, should I be worried about something like this?? Please give your input

Is deja vu the only feelings you're having? Is their a smell or taste along with them?



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no, nothing like that, just the feeling that I've already lived the exact same moment before.

Pretty much everyone gets deja vu. It's true that seizure-like activity is the cause of deja vu, but everyone has this once in awhile. It sounds creepy, but it's not dangerous, it doesn't lead to other types of seizures or epilepsy, and it's normal. If it led to bigger seizures or epilepsy, everyone would be epileptic!

So, yes, deja vu is a "type" of seizure (sort of), but everyone has the experience once awhile, and it doesn't mean anything dangerous.

k, I just worry about it so much because for one, I'm going through a really rough period in my life. I'm actually on medication for anti-depression/anxiety, and the deja vu really started to worry me because like I get it every now and then, but I've gotten it like 3 or 4 times in the past...almost 2 months, so it is freaking me out because I've never had it that often before.

I was alright for a while, things seemed to be getting better! And then for some reason I started worrying about Deja Vu again!! I don't know why, I know everyone gets it from time to time but still. I've read alot about deja vu and simple partials and have some questions. First of all I do not have E, and am very sympathetic to those of you with is, however I continuously worry about it! My deja vu consists of the following:

-Doesn't happen very often at all, I can have periods of years without deja vu
-Feeling that I've already lived this EXACT same moment in my life before, almost as if I've dreamed about it.
-I can talk perfectly fine when it happens, a few times I've even said "whoa, deja vu!"
-Sometimes I'll get a feeling that something bad is going to happen, but it's not an EXTREME feeling
-It will last maybe a few second at the most
-Seems like an almost dreamy feeling, because it's weird! lol
-Afterwards I am completely fine, go about life!

I know that everyone gets deja vu every now and then, but what I've read about the connection with TLE and simple partials has scared me. I have no other symptoms when I get deja vu. Also I've read that the difference between normal deja vu and epileptic deja vu is the post-ictal stage of sleepiness, headaches, brain cloudiness, which I have none of after I get deja vu. I guess my questions are: 1. Can a simple partial be JUST deja vu? 2. If I was having simple partials would I not have a post-ictal stage afterwards?

Any insight you guys can offer would probably help set my mind straight!! Thanks alot