Daja Vu question, should I worry?? - Epilepsy Message Board

HotNicks · 02-24-2004, 07:31 PM

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

scootpcmr · 02-27-2004, 02:51 PM

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

scoot

HotNicks · 02-28-2004, 03:47 PM

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

Timber · 02-29-2004, 06:52 PM

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.

HotNicks · 03-01-2004, 03:01 PM

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.