if you are referring to someone who has displayed anger type behavior it may be due to a combination of factors such as med side effects, frustration, worry, fatigue, etc.
I don't know if you mean generally or when they have seizures. If you mean after the seizure think about it the person wakes up doesn't know what happened. I have two daughters who have epilepsy and it has changed their lives dramatically. It is not easy for the person with epilepsy or the parents of the epilepsy patient. When they come out of the seizure their brain is trying to come back. You should explain the comment you made better than I maybe could answer it better.
There is a long list of things associated with epilepsy and the world in general that leads to problems that cause frustration.
1.) A lot of medications used for epilepsy have neurological and emotional side effects that mess with the bran in ways that you can only imagine. This can lead to moments of extreme anger from small issues.
2.) Not very many people in the world know very much about epilepsy and tend to jump to a lot of false assumptions about it. For example a lot of people assume that all types of epilepsy has seizures triggered by strobe lights. In truth there are many types of epilepsy that is not triggered by strobe lights.
3.) Driving limits. If your life consist of repeatedly loosing your license then getting it back the repeat over and over it gets annoying. it interferes with the ability to make plans and schedual things.
To some it up it is mostly because of how it effects daily everyday life and creates problems that epileptics have to deal with that normal every day people without epilepsy would never imagine having to deal with. Please keep in mind this is only based on my opinion of life growing up with epilepsy. Some people might disagree.
Hi,
I just like to say hello to all you people as I am a new member to this site and have epilepsy.
My veiw on angry is that medicine that you take it's side effect can cause you a lot of emonitional feeling, as I have a problem in controling my feeling when I am angry due to fit and when I worry when I am feeling a fit is coming on.
I have to disagree with you on this......I take Keppra but it doenst make me angry..good job really as i work in a pre-school lolol in fact it has done the opposite i enjoy my life more than i did before..no i cant drive and yes at first i was devestated when i had the seizures as i hadnt had one in 14 years but i arnt one to mope and get frustrated..it would not only bring me down when i did it would bring the family down to so i just get on with my life as i have always done You only have one life...live it, if it kills you die happy
I have to disagree with you on this......I take Keppra but it doenst make me angry..good job really as i work in a pre-school lolol in fact it has done the opposite i enjoy my life more than i did before..no i cant drive and yes at first i was devestated when i had the seizures as i hadnt had one in 14 years but i arnt one to mope and get frustrated..it would not only bring me down when i did it would bring the family down to so i just get on with my life as i have always done You only have one life...live it, if it kills you die happy
Take care
Andrea x
Hi Andrea,
I am happy to receive your reply, I have 1 to 5 fits in a day or 1 a week has my Complex piation is not controlled and the medicine I take I read and it does say that I can have mood swings or anger to anxiety feelings.Anyway I have a lot of stress from my family and I have not worked for 18 years because of fits in school and when I finish my GCSE 20 years ago.I Believe people do not know how epilepsy effects a child and a adult.
Hi Lamb,
Well I take Pregablin,Tegretol Retard and Keppra.
Kind Regards
A.Dar
When i as diagnosed with epilepsy the first time round (i was 12) i was put on tegretol i cant remember of any side effects only if i took 800mg it felt like i was in a washing machine everything would be spinning..not a nice feeling lolol got me out of doing any school work for an hour though as the writing on the blackboard wouldnt stay still lolol anyway that got reduced to 400 mg twice a day then over the years was reduced down to 100 mg......14 years later i am on 1000mg of keppra. My memory is one of a goldfish... lololol but that is the only side effect i get
I know that I have trouble dealing with people, mostly kids around 10 or so.
I will yell at them in the stores, I recently went to a movie with my dad, we went to see a kids movie (even though I'm 33) and I ended up telling the little kid that was sitting behind me to be quiet.
I'll also complain about things at resturants, stores, movies (maybe I should stop going to those!) and other places. If it makes me mad I act on it. Usually it just comes out before I even realize I'm saying it. This makes my family mad and I usually get a lecture afterwards.
I am on Tegratal, Lamictal and Depacote (I know I problay spelled those wrong) and I also have a VNS implant.
I posted about this in another thread so it's kinda good to know I'm not the only one. I'm going to ask my neuro about this at my next appt.
Hi--You made me laugh--I am an "epilepsy" people. I guess I get mad because I have to keep repeating myself, because nobody seems to get what I am trying to tell them--how's that?
I tend to agree wholeheartedly about the frustration that we are not allowed to feel--I mean, wasn't I told to get in touch with my feelings years ago? My, My.. So instead we're all supposed to walk around like the Stepford Wives or whatever because they really don't know how to deal with this and those of us are living with this nonsense actually know more about our situations than....and on and on....
I feel that you are genuine in your feeling, so I need to be that way with you.
I chuckled when I first read this, but I must say that many years have passed since my diagnosis and I still do not have much professional information, yet plenty of other nonsense. Hence, the bitterness and the anger. I try to hide it most of the time, but with each passing episode my frustration at the whole
thing makes me madder and madder. After all, seizures are only, thankfully a part of me, not the whole me. I managed to go through school and college, became a teacher, then boom! Little did I know how it would be this life altering thing those many years ago, but that applies to many things, right?
It is quite a learning experience to say the least and I've learned alot about me, but I'm at a place where no one wants to listen to me. I guess I won't bend any more ears or is it eyes right now--PtC Just always adjusting--a shorter version
zizo kiko: I haven't seen you respond to any of the posts here. Now that you've heard people say why they're angry I'd like to hear what you have to say. Do you have epilepsy? I bet you don't. If you did you'd understand. It's a life altering disease. I'm angry because none of the meds I've been on have ever worked and they have alot of bad side effects. I'm angry because I can't drive anymore!! I'm limited to what I can do now. I have to get other people to help me go where I need to go and it's not always convenient. I'm also dealing with a juvenile diabetic. I'm under alot of stress. I'm also dealing with menopause!!! That alone, without the epilepsy, is enough to make you angry and change your moods. My hormones are out of whack!!! I agree with other posters here that the doctors don't listen, they just want to drug you. There's no easy solution and it's an endless battle to try to do something to try to feel better. It's not fun! I'm a FREAK now to people. I don't have much of a social life anymore because if I have a seizure people overreact, so I just decide to stay home and stay away from people. I know who my friends are and I have a good church family that I can count on.
Let's hear more of your experiences.
I'm not on this board much, and I certainly haven't posted in years, but this one grabbed my attention immediately.
I'm on topamax, but spent 13+ years on dilantin and am dealing with the aftermath of side effects from that and you could maybe say that I'm angry about the headaches, other meds I've had to take to control them, osteopenia and those meds, and the resulting other side effects on my liver.
But, in general, I do not consider myself an angry person. Anticonvulsants do control my seizures. It's just a pain in the butt dealing with the other stuff. I spend a lot more time with headaches.
To say everyone with epilepsy is angry is a very gross generalization, don't you think? Dealing with some aspects of it may make us angry, but being angry in general is overstating it a bit.
i had epilepsy for a long period of time and i wasn't always angry but i have to say it turned me from an active and cheerful kid then to a self isolating pessimist. i think it does make some ppl angry over the fact that they are somehow disabled. that was why i isolated myself in the early stages.
You only have one life...live it, if it kills you die happy
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I tend to agree wholeheartedly about the frustration that we are not allowed to feel--I mean, wasn't I told to get in touch with my feelings years ago? My, My.. So instead we're all supposed to walk around like the Stepford Wives or whatever because they really don't know how to deal with this and those of us are living with this nonsense actually know more about our situations than....and on and on....
