Things that drive me crazy - Epilepsy Message Board

valeriedl · 08-27-2006, 07:50 PM

I've read a few of the new posts about things that people are sensitive to and I have my own question to ask now -

Since I really don't remember much before the sez's (I lost about 10 years of memory and my memory now is still no good) so I have to rely on what family and friends tell me.

I used to be really good with kids. Everyone would ask me to babysit, if someone brought their kid over I'd love it and play with them. But now I can't stand kids. I find myself yelling at other peoples kids in public and hate when friends that have kids ask me over. I hate to invite them to my house because I don't want to have to deal with the kids. The running joke with a few of my friends (that don't have kids) is that "if you don't behave we are going to take you to Aunt Val's"!

I get angery easy too and want to go off on people, I usually manage to keep that under controll, sometimes.

I get upset very easy. If I see someone else crying I have to keep back my tears (even if what they are crying about has nothing to do with me).

I don't know if anyone else deals with this, or if it may have something to do with the meds that I am on?

IJUSTWANNANO · 08-27-2006, 10:42 PM

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aussie308 · 08-28-2006, 05:37 AM

Val, you sound a lot like me. my memory probs. aren't quite as bad as yours but I do have a period of a couple of years I can barely remember. I don't know if it was the amount of seiz. I was having or the amount of med. I was taking. I still have problems with short term memory from day to day though.

As far as not wanting to be around kids, irritable and crying for no reason that's everyday for me. I am very sensitive to noise, can't stand screaming and yelling. i have no patience for anyone. I'm really not on much med. now so I think it must just be that after so many seiz. and so much med. over the years your system becomes sensitive to everything. I'm lucky that one of my kids is grown and the other is almost 17 so he's great about understanding moms moods.

I don't like being this way because like you said it makes it hard to even go out in public.

aunti2egl · 08-29-2006, 09:43 PM

I hear what you're saying about getting angry. I've always had a temper, but WOW, in the last couple of yrs (since I was diagnosed????) I've really gotten worse. I'm suprised sometimes that I haven't lost my job yet. My mom swears it's PMDD, but I don't know. She doesn't get it cause she doesn't have these seizures. As for my memory, I can remember I guess a normal amount of growing up. But as for the seizures I had before I was diagnosed, nada...I only remember the ones I've had since being on the meds and the one I had that was serious (when I was diagnosed)....I hope my new dr. can maybe shed some light and I'd like to have another MRI or be kept overnight to be monitored, I swear I think have seiz overnight.

neurowreck · 08-29-2006, 10:07 PM

I won't even go to certain large discount stores between Thanksgiving and about mid-January since the place is over-run with undisciplined kids who fly out in front of carts, yell, scream, demand stuff (they've obviously never heard the word "no" before). But half the time I wonder where their parents' heads are ( have an idea, but won't post it). They didn't get that way on their own......hire a baby sitter, or make 'em behave !!! If a kid is well behaved, I'll hang with them- if they're brats, forget it. Relatives or not.