Very true... for everyone. Thats why there is such a thing as reviewing
old material. Of course its harder for us because we have to do more
reviewing than the norm. But of course (again) those with ADD can have it
just as hard. But those that I know who have it are not even able to
concentrate on reviewing, let alone remember it. So while our short term
retention can be poor... its not for lack of trying :o)

Aye, there's the rub! The "files" aren't really deleted, they're just not
accessible at the time you want them...

I find that I have to learn things to be able to remember them.* If I feel
I know something I'm trying to remember but cannot it to the surface, I
leave it for the moment. Later on I'll try again and sometimes it comes.
The other day I was trying to think what the groups of football teams were
called, found it the next day and now I've lost it again. It's not
important, because I don't want to talk to anyone else about it, just
frustrating. I think it begins with d . . . .

Chris L.

*rather like learning to play the piano - after a lot of practice one's
hands know what to do without the instructions having being made at the
surface being aware of the decisions.

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I havent had seizure where I lost consciousness for a few years now. But,
every time I did it took me time to know what my name was, where I was,
who was there talking to me (they were familiar but didnt know who they
were), or where things were. And after I regained some of my senses, I
would be overwhelmed with a huge sense of dread that basically my world
had collapsed. Cant say I ever had the feeling of people out to get me.

Dont tempt me. I did that once and everyone was shocked. But then I started
missing it so it didnt take long for it to grow back :P

I was at a family funeral and this good-looking guy came up to me and kind of
teased me.  Don't you know me, he said.  No, I didn't.  I looked at this
handsome young man for a long time and still didn't know who he was.  It was my
little brother.  He had grown a full beard, his hair was much longer, and he had
lost some weight.  Boy, I was embarrassed.

Barb

To me, their attitude would be worse than aggravating. But they're not worth
bothering about, they know nothing and should be ignored. One day it might
happen to them and they'll get their come-uppance, until them take the
superior attitude!

Mary

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 One of the things I had that first made 'taking control' more difficult
was a feeling of guilt that it was somehow 'my fault', and I should just
learn to 'snap out of it'.
 Even if they described things I had done during a Complex Partial that I
had no memory of afterwards,  they somehow thought I "should" remember what
I did, or what happened.    I had just come to expect that waking up on the
floor, in Emerg. or somewhere I didn't know how I got there, as the 'new
normal'.
  Thank Heavens for my Neuro !  He was the first (at that time *only)
person who didn't suggest it was 'my fault' these were happening.   No
wonder, 200 years ago they used to lock up people they didn't understand or
thought were 'possessed'.  Sometimes we Are 'possessed',  but it's possessed
by a Seizure before it generalizes.

That's why I usually point new people to Julie's Idaho 'First Aid Chart'
for symptoms that are Normal for each seizure type or the whole Site, or
Howdy Dave's Site.

 While I first had a Fear about these apparently random Losses of
'Control',  there was also fear of potential injury or harm (to me) since if
I went into 'the Twilight Zone',  my sense of Fear or Self-Safety seemed to
go on Vacation.  This Medic Alert Bracelet paid for itself within the first
4-6 months I got it, before I reached full control.
   I had been told at the time that these were the New Normal and I should
expect I *might have them 2-3 times a month.   Last one was June 1998, but I
still take the same pill regimen I was using from about 1995. Brain Fog
still comes around, but the stronger Auras, which produced panic back then,
seem to have subsided.  But that took Pill changes, tests, and adjustments
up and down from 1993 to 96.
  Memory Loss is still there, but that preceded the seizures by 14 years
(same brain area -- Rt. Temporal Lobe in my case).  G./

For nearly 30yrs, I was able to live with my epilepsy then I began to get
panic attacks etc and it took about 3 yrs to persuade doctors that there
was anything else wrong with me. Eventually, bi-polar syndrome (manic
depression) was diagnosed and I was prescribed an anti-depressant. Some
drugs are used for both epilepsy and bi-polar syndrome. They include
carbamazepine and .. er .. I can't remember the other one I have known.

Chris L.