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Epilepsy & Seizures | Last Active: Jul 16, 2021 | Replies (7)

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Hi @yvette1961
What kind of seizures do you have? Are they focal or generalized?
I usually have focal complex seizures (temporal lobe epilepsy), some few motors, and more non- motors. During those seizures, I lose my capacity to speak, though my husband says I still can communicate with some signs.
For example. Last Friday, I had a complex seizure (non-motor) and confused my eye drops with rescue spray, applying my eye drops as a rescue spray. My husband tried to help me by giving me the rescue spray, but I refused and I did not let him apply it. I understood I became somehow aggressive, which is usually not the case. This last Saturday I had another complex seizure and I have let my husband apply the rescue spray without any problems. Same situations, different reactions. All that, I naturally do not remember, he tells me afterward.
As @artificialsugar also mentioned, when I come out I start talking, but it is usually not understandable. It takes a few minutes, usually. I agree with @Isittll, strange behaviors are possible during seizures.

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The strange behavior exhibited in temporal lobe psychomotor seizures is often mistaken as mental behavior. The kids in school thought I was a mentally ill person to begin with because of my seizures.