I may be totally wrong here and other regulars in this group please tell me
if I am. I find it a little rude asking people for such things. You have
things you want to keep secret about your situation, yet you are asking
someone to send something (that may be very personal to them) to you. I
don't know about anyone else but I would be a little suspect about someone
wanting a video of this. I don't think you are "sad" but I do think its an
invasion of privacy.
Beck.

Howdy!

I would suggest asking your neuro/epileptologist. S/he probably can show you
a video of a person having a G-M seizure.

There is a BIG difference in what end of the seizure you're on!  I always
gave the "no big deal" speil about my siezures. Then I had a room mate in
college who had GM seizures EVERY NIGHT!!!

I freaked out the first time I saw one!  After the third or fourth I was ok.
After that I had some perception of "what the big deal was" and my
explanations were given with a bit more compassion.

Find some recent posts by Howdy Dave or Julie on the group.   They both list
websites they've developed over last 7+ years, that describe the various
symptoms of various szr. types.
    Under the Idaho (Julie's ) Website there is a First Aid for Seizures
page that describes possible behaviours of the main seizure types (about 5
of them).   Each of the main seizure types have a unique set of possible
behaviours that Doctors use to identify the type you are having.
   Show the page to her.  You *are a totally different person during
seizure onset, since the electrical storms that are occuring in your brain
and nervous system are what produce the seizures. How people around us
behave will determine how easily and safely we might come out of a seizure.

   We did this, from the 'inside' about 3 months ago on the group, and
various people explained how they felt from our side of the seizure fence.
I don't know where to get the History file, unless Google or your internet
provider can call it up.   But since a bunch of us already posted that stuff
back then (early July?),  plus many of the regulars are away on vacation,
you may not get a lot of response to a generic question like below.
  Start first by showing her the First Aid for Seizure chart.  Those will
show her what a 'normal' seizure looks like.   If that's something she might
have difficulty with or handling,  it's probably best you find that out
now....
  This is an International Newsgroup.  While many of the Europe and
Australia/New Zealand regulars are not posting currently, sometimes they
only read the group each 4-6 days. You may get some more direct (on the
group) answers from them, if they didn't already participate before.  For
some of us 'olde ones',  starting over and reposting the stuff over will
either repeat what we've already done, or bore some of the others whose
opinions we might value.

   What are the things she's concerned about that she described to you?  I
assume she didn't just give you that one liner below, and you headed off to
the internet.   A Grand Mal (French for Great Sickness -- named in the
1700s?)  is one of the more common types of seizures. And the commonest
symptoms and First Aid are described in a few sentences on that First Aid
Site I mentioned.    Alternatively, there might be more detail too under the
U.S. Ep. Foundation of America site --http://efa.org  .  You could try those
first.
 (Oh, and most of us don't consider this a problem. It might be a pain, or
take a while to get used to, but it's part of who we are, and we don't
consider ourselves 'a problem'.  I don't know if that helps explain an
earlier post, but at first you sounded like you might be newly diagnosed?
or not used to removing any Labels that might impede us. Once any negative
labels get discarded we seem to adapt to this better.  I  hope some of that
made sense.  )

  The only video I've ever seen was one that was made (possibly in Canada)
called The Centre of her Storms.  It likely wouldn't be much help as it
shows a young woman who had Severe Intractible Seizures since childhood, who
undergoes surgery for the type she had. I don't even remember if they were
Grand mals, just they reduced her functioning severely with their intensity
and frequency.  If you have a local chapter of an Epilepsy Association they
might have a copy of it, but like an earlier poster suggested,  most of our
seizures tend to be unique to some extent- and the type she has in the movie
were Extreme and Severe since her childhood.      /G.

Hi Kenny, I don't think you ask a rude question.  Seeing what a seizure
looks like is part of education.  If you lived in Idaho you could borrow
the video tape from the Epilepsy Foundation of Idaho.  If you live in the
US, I imagine the state you live in would have similar tapes that we have
here in Idaho.  One 10 minute tape I see on the list is entitled Seizure
First Aid.  Real seizures, as well as re-enactments, are used to
deomonstrate Tonic-Clonic (Grand mal) seizures.
http://www.epilepsyidaho.org/library.htm

I would think that other countries would have something similar from their
epilepsy support.

How are your family and friends coping with your seizure disorder?  The
more education for all of you, the more you will feel empowered.

Take care,
Julie Walton, Volunteer Webmaster
Epilepsy Foundation of Idaho
http://www.epilepsyidaho.org

Hi Kenny,

On this Dutch website you can find video's of different types of
seizures. They have been made in a very respectful way and I don't
think there's any need to feel offended.

Even if you don't understand Dutch, you can find the video's by
searching within the webpage for the word "video" (surprise!).

Generalised seizures
http://www.epilepsie.nl/index.php?forcedoc=%2Fartikel.php%3Fid%3D89

Partial seizures
http://www.epilepsie.nl/index.php?forcedoc=%2Fartikel.php%3Fid%3D88

Friendly regards,

Jan