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I think we have a new difficult child in the family
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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 172140" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>Back before the 60's and 70's, all doctors knew about partial seizures though they may not have called them that. Then came the psychological upswing of the hippie era. Suddenly everything was learned behavior and people could just chose not to have problems if only they wanted to. Acceptance of that theory varied, of course, but I've mention my roommate who told me I could stop having seizures if I just decided to. And some really believed you could cure the common cold or cancer if only you decided not to have it.</p><p></p><p>In that era, all but convulsions and absence seizures-- grand and petite mal -- stopped being identified as seizure activity and became behavioral issues. Even neurologists I've had poo-pooed partial seizure activity. But my GP who was the first doctor to address my epilepsy immediately recognized that the problems I had which ended <em>the day</em> I started Dilantin were types of seizures. He was older and had gone through school in the 40's. He learned things much differently than those who went through school in the 60's and beyond.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 172140, member: 1498"] Back before the 60's and 70's, all doctors knew about partial seizures though they may not have called them that. Then came the psychological upswing of the hippie era. Suddenly everything was learned behavior and people could just chose not to have problems if only they wanted to. Acceptance of that theory varied, of course, but I've mention my roommate who told me I could stop having seizures if I just decided to. And some really believed you could cure the common cold or cancer if only you decided not to have it. In that era, all but convulsions and absence seizures-- grand and petite mal -- stopped being identified as seizure activity and became behavioral issues. Even neurologists I've had poo-pooed partial seizure activity. But my GP who was the first doctor to address my epilepsy immediately recognized that the problems I had which ended [I]the day[/I] I started Dilantin were types of seizures. He was older and had gone through school in the 40's. He learned things much differently than those who went through school in the 60's and beyond. [/QUOTE]
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