Epilepsy is a condition characterized by recurrent seizures that may include repetitive muscle jerking called convulsions. A seizure is a sudden disruption of the brain's normal electrical activity accompanied by altered consciousness and/or other neurological and behavioral manifestations.

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Why post this?

Let me tell you more about myself.

I'm Filipino...

Twenty-Four years old...

Eldest of five siblings...

...and I have Epilepsy.

I only knew that I had epilepsy was when I was in freshman year at college, when I had my first major epileptic attack in school. I was 17 at that time.

But I've been having symptoms since I was in high school.

Having been born 2 months early might have caused it or maybe it's really something that was given to me as a special challenge.

Being an epileptic is hard. I've been through so much that when I think about those times I often want to cry.

I've been discriminated, called names, feared (people in our place think that I have been posessed by a demonic power... a lot more.

At first, no one understood how I felt. They didn't know what to do with me. i went from one doctor to another (both medical, herbal and quacks), psychics, ghost experts, priests, exorsists even to someone that is believed to heal by dancing around yelling names, just so that I could be cured.

But... there is no cure for epilepsy.

To be continued....