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Posted by River1924 on February 24, 2007, at 2:15:53
What are psychic seizures?
Posted by dbc on February 24, 2007, at 2:43:48
In reply to What are psychic seizures?, posted by River1924 on February 24, 2007, at 2:15:53
Psychic seizures affect how we feel, think, and experience things. Patients may report a “dreamy
state,” transitional between waking and unconsciousness. Psychic seizures can alter language function,
perception or memory. They can also evoke spontaneous emotions (e.g., fear, anxiety, or depression),
altered perceptions of time or familiarity (time slowing down or speeding up; deja vu—new experiences
appear familiar, jamais vu—familiar things appear foreign), depersonalization (feeling one is not oneself),
derealization (the world seems unreal, dream-like), or autoscopy (viewing one’s body from outside).
Posted by Phillipa on February 24, 2007, at 11:32:49
In reply to Re: What are psychic seizures?, posted by dbc on February 24, 2007, at 2:43:48
dcb like dissassociation? Love Phillipa
Posted by dbc on February 24, 2007, at 12:50:23
In reply to Re: What are psychic seizures? » dbc, posted by Phillipa on February 24, 2007, at 11:32:49
No idea i just copied and pasted it.
Posted by notfred on February 24, 2007, at 13:17:18
In reply to What are psychic seizures?, posted by River1924 on February 24, 2007, at 2:15:53
They are a kind of simple partial seizures. "Simple" means no loss of conscious (it is called complex if you do); "partial" means the seizure is localized in one part of the brain (it is called general/generalized if the whole/large parts of the brain have seizure activity).
Where the seizure activity happens in the brain effects how the seizure will present itself & what it will effect. Senses, movement, and thinking or emotions can be effected. As dbc mentioned
psychic seizures effect senses. Some people think of seizures as being convulsions but simple and complex partial seizures never produce convulsions.
Posted by notfred on February 24, 2007, at 13:35:33
In reply to Re: What are psychic seizures? » dbc, posted by Phillipa on February 24, 2007, at 11:32:49
> dcb like dissassociation? Love Phillipa
dissassociation is one of many things that can happen during simple partial seizures.
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