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What is Epilepsy? Causes? Symptoms? Signs? And what is it's relation with demonic possession. I heard some people say a person is demon possessed or it could be explained that they have epilepsy because the symptoms are the same?... (link)
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Epilepsy is simply a seizure disorder. I am a 15 year old girl and was diagnosed with it almost a year ago. A person with epilepsy has had more than two seizures that have no reasonable explanation. For example, blood sugar or fever can cause a seizure. A seizure is caused by a charge of electrical activity that hits the brain. It may affect the entire brain or just one part.
People with epilepsy are in no way possesed by demons! That is simply an ancient myth. Anceint doctors (and still doctors today!) don't really understand epilepsy, so the ancient ones just proposed that they were "possesed".
You also don't have to be born with epilepsy. People who suffer sever head injuries may develop epilepsy.
Epilepsy cannot simply be "cured", some people may opt for surgery to remove damaged parts of the brain. For others, they simply go through life on different medications. However, in alot of cases the seizures may just go away with time, (im really hoping for that outcome!)
I hope I cleared a few things up. Epilepsy is not a horrible disease, it's just simply a brain disorder. And can usually be easily controlled.
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