Focal Seizures with Impaired Awareness (formerly known as Complex Partial)

Do You Know What It Is? Not all seizures look the same.

[Coyoteari]

I never knew these sort of behaviors were/could be seizures. Heck I never knew a person could be up & seemingly functioning during a seizure. These behaviors are always framed as a person having a “psychological break”, or maybe evidence of a developmental disability. I’m honestly horrified that mainstream society has fully mislabeled a p important part of human illness

[Black_SunGod]

Thank you for this I have focal seizures and people need to aware that we are out there, please if anyone encounters someone in the midst of a focal seizure episode please stay calm. Reassure the person I. The seizure that all is well and it will passs, however it goes longer than 5 to 8 minutes please call 911 immediately and don’t leave the person until the paramedics arrive !! Thank you 🙏🏾

[DontLookBehindYou]

I've gotten arrested for public intox 3 times... I should have had a bracelet, but at the time i wasn't fully aware of what was going on. Great video

[nicnac]

I'm happy I came across this video. I suddenly started going through this. It makes me feel better to know I'm not the only person who experiences this. I do want to figure out how to control this. I am getting better at knowing when it's going to happen and "stop" it. Not ever time, but often.

[Major]

I'm very glad I decided to go down the rabbit hole of exploring what seizures look like. Tha k you for this video.

[abdrk]

The biggest problem is the reaction which people give because they are unaware and it's not even their fault but for us it becomes very embarrassing especially in office.

P.S: I once started talking to a lady whom i didn't know, about my work again and again and she freaked out which later embarrassed me alot but thanks to my colleague who just made me sit and just let me recover by myself for which i will be very grateful 🙏

[elizabethaucott]

I've had epilepsy since I was 2. I think complex partials are worse than tonic clonics, in the sense that TC's, people know exactly what's happening, what's wrong. But Complex Partial they either think nothings wrong or your just weird or keep trying to talk to you the same...

[christinehales]

I experience everything on the list, .A parent of a child I was working with made an official complaint as I couldn't communicate with her, very upsetting & embarrassing .When I worked parent of my ' risk assessment was to explain the subtleties of my partial seizures to relatives of the kids I worked with .Stay strong everyone ❤

[Matrix-tzyc]

i have this aswell but i get so scared thinking its going to happen again as my community think its a demon. i try so hard to not show people, when it happens, but its hard so hard to control.

[filledwithvariousknowledge]

I drove for 3 years (it did stop on its own for a year at one point in the 4 years I’ve had it on its own whilst the investigations were on going to be fair and then returned) with it until July 1st because the time it happens was always between 7 to 8pm during supper. On July 1st (2 days before I finally began the medication when the investigation was finished) was the one time it didn’t follow that time of when it happens and I paid the price losing my car (no injuries or to others as I didn’t hit anyone else’s car) but I only remember the aftermath and no driving for a year after last seizure on medication

[YuriyGayevskiy]

It's important to raise awareness, and while these are the classic signs that should alert people, we also should remember that seizures can be very, very complex in their manifestation. I had clonic, tonic/clonic, when I was a child, and focal, absence seisures in adulthood. The post-ictal (recovery) state would last anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes, and in a lot of cases you I had so-called behavioral automatism, which later you don't remember at all. Once, for example, I find myself standing with a bag of burgers outside of the place. While thinking it was weird, still came home, and only next morning came back to find out how the hell I ordered exactly what I wanted and paid for it)) The dude said maybe I looked weird, but all went pretty much normal)

[technology]

I am crying after seeing this, because i also have same things

[trevorodell]

Dude, thank you for putting this together. I'm Diagnosed with these seizures, and have been having them for years, and I saw symptoms in this video that I never even recognized as part of my seizures. It's such a confusing condition that I was blaming half of these symptoms on allergies and ADHD and fibromyalgia, and even had an ER visit with a seizure Last Week where the topic of seizures never even came up. It seems so unreal in retrospect that I've been "zoning out and losing time" by my own accounting, and never put 2 and 2 together.

There is just NOT enough patient education on this, or at least wasn't when I was diagnosed.

[michaelbarclay]

l had the same thing happen to me in glasgow this year left all my shopping bags in the street did not know how l got home scares me these type of seizures

[darcybrummett]

Back in high school, I was seeing the school nurse because I had accidentally jabbed my hand with the point of a pencil. She started doing something with my hand (don’t remember exactly what) and I passed out. They called my mother saying I had a seizure. I now understand why they thought that. It was just my legs jerking which is what they sometimes do especially when if I lie still long enough.

[delphisquirrel]

Holy shit this is me. Just going down the rabbit hole researching Epilepsy after fallin down having a seizure then another in A&E. Then apparently kicking out and swearing three separate times in hospital. I have no recollection of the big ones. And little awareness of coming round from the tonic one where I went stiff and fell and couldn’t move. Because I have been diagnosed bipolar too I was all most transferred from hospital to a mental facility to be sectioned but thank goodness my family vouched for me and said I was no harm to anyone and I said i wasn’t suicidal. And the NHS in the UK is so overstretched I think they were relieved they didn’t have to take me in. My whole life is beginning to make sense, finding myself walking round in circles in my room, becoming aware I’ve been zoned out ages and stuck in my body, visual disturbances that the GP said were silent migraine but I never had pain yet still felt battered and exhausted and confused for days after while trying to raise a young family. They are adults now, and taking care of me as my health is falling apart. Thankyou for this amazing video, it makes me feel less bad about having the odd spliff to relieve my symptoms and anxiety as I wait for the neurologist to sort me out now I’m finally in the system, and thank God for blessing me with three wonderful compassionate, emotionally intelligent and strong children (luckily in their late 20’s now so hopefully this trauma of seeing their Mum in a bit of sticky situation won’t fuck them up)

[Joannahartley]

I live with this.... yesterday was at a parent/teacher conference and was having even though my daughter told them that's what was happening, I found out today that they think I'm either a druggie or alcoholic! I feel so embarrassed, hurt, and just am in tears!

[authenticmslife]

This is a helpful video. I wish I had known more about these before I started having them myself.

[TmanT]

For many years since i was 16 my family all thought that my epilepsy was sleep walking cz id jump out of bed start smacking my brother run up and down the hall way then somehow find my way back to bed. It wasnt until i was 23 when i was using a ride on lawn mower, that i suddenly just jumped up and started doing weird stuff and all i remember waking up and my mouth bleeding bad, so if it wasn’t for this complex partial seizure I wouldn’t have found out i was living with epilepsy pretty much my whole life. I still get it but i treat it more carefully now i used to be a builder but have now stopped working in construction type jobs.

[johnflores]

I'm glad I searched this.. Now I know I'm not the only one 😔😢 this kind of illness makes me feel pity for myself.