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» Peaches3rn - Poorly researched

Epilepsy IS a disease/condition. Seizures are the symptom. Big difference. Also, where are you getting your statistics? They are also incorrect.

I can appreciate you trying to get the word out about epilepsy, but a writer should be more thorough with her research. (And spelling)

-- posted by Peaches3rn

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» eisforepilepsy - Really Poorly researched

In response to Poorly researched posted by Peaches3rn:
Sylvia McGrath,
Nice try...but you are doing harm to a lot of folks around the world by writing such a badly researched piece on a disorder that is complicated and deadly and has such a very high stigmatazation level. You really should know better than to try to pass off something so light-weight as writing.
Hundreds of folks die each year from E. and millions more of us suffer from the ignorance of fools. Many people still believe that demons cause epilepsy, that the only seizure is the convulsive kind or that people only seize to get attention. Even more people believe that epilepsy is contagious, that exorcism is the cure for it, and that people with epilepsy are violent killers.
None of these things are true, but then neither is your blythe comment that epilepsy is not a disorder at all but only a symptom...
Do us all a favor and write about something else---please!
Cordially,
Paula
E. is for Epilepsy by Paula Apodaca
www.epilepsy-paula.blogspot.com

-- posted by eisforepilepsy

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» Palan - I am still confused by the numbers...

I must agree you're research and my research aren't very close and I'd hate to say I'm better at research, but frankly I obviously am. It's literally sad to see this repeatedly shown time and time again. Then again the Times didn't try to sell me a newspaper for me to tell them I didn't need it as I knew before them anyway...
ep·i·lep·sy /'?p??l?psi/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ep-uh-lep-see] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
-noun Pathology. a disorder of the nervous system, characterized either by mild, episodic loss of attention or sleepiness (petit mal) or by severe convulsions with loss of consciousness (grand mal).
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[Origin: 1570-80; LL epilépsia si]
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dis·ease /d?'ziz/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[di-zeez] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, -eased, -eas·ing.
-noun 1. a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
This is effecting the nervous system correct...

-- posted by Palan

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