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Seizures (Causes)

Black Rose

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Disclaimer: This is my own understanding, not medical advice.

From the pills I take I have medications for convulsions, schizophrenia, bipolar mania, and autistic traits.

They help me to function normally and I want to explain how I think they work to show what might be happening.

A seizure is when a burst of electrical impulses happens in the brain at a size disproportional to common functioning. This is created by an influx of calcium into the brain cells because there is not enough magnesium to stop the influx. At a constant rate, calcium is absorbed into the cell as the signals propagate along the nerve fibers. Magnesium for a short time blocks new calcium from entering and as the calcium leaves the cell.

This is the simple version because many other minerals are at play in electrical conductivity. Any disruption can cause a build-up of chemicals that do not balance out creating huge bursts of impulses. A normally functioning brain cell can send multiple bursts of signals at the same time, depending on where they are connected. But together they can get too much or not enough chemicals to maintain balance.

A brain is trying to send signals in a process. To create a representation of the outside world and to change it based on what needs to be done to survive. So it grows in such a way as to direct where signals go that become accurate. Those directions of signal-sending produce the effects of perception and thinking cognition.

This connects back to my conditions of which might not be fully separable cases. Siezers make the brain lose clarity of what is going on so cannot self-correct the way it needs to. It requires having a more stable environment for me to handle things because stress will not allow me to do certain activities normal people can.

Often I have ideas about things and being unable to get what I need makes me reliant on others keeping to myself with little care for myself.

I have a lack of self-awareness for what needs to be done most often only coming to realize I need to do important things too late and becoming manic.

I believe that to make things better, I need to learn more about my physical health.

That requires getting my living conditions correct to allow for a sense of stability.
 

ZenRaiden

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allow for a sense of stability.
I am currently trying to figure that for myself.
I am stable on the outside, but I still struggle psychologically.
Even though there is nothing wrong with me, my sense of stability is sort of unstable.
Today I feel fine, days before I felt a little on edge.

What do you think you need for sense of stability.

I suspect in my case bit of venting online helped.
 

EndogenousRebel

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I think that communications of large cell networks start spiraling out of control because an irrelevant input is taking the bandwidth of the whole system.

So it's like, most people have somatic responses, and this communicates to their "reptilian brain". This part of the brain that is shared with most vertebrates. It regulates the bodies homeostasis and responds with hormones to most primitive sensory information, like touch.

At minimum the somatic brain is being hijacked. You stop breathing, you bite your tougue. People usually describe a certain mental state, so the limbic brain definitely senses a difference when they are about to happen. But these parts are usually managed by the outer most frontest part of the brain. Does this implicate the insula and broader cerebral cortex?

How this happens, we can speculate?

Where does the problem originate from?
The deep- hidden internal structures of the brain, where we are basically all identical.
or
The latest addition in the cortex of the brain.
or
Somewhere in between in the limbic system.

Why not all of them?

Animals can have siezures too, and they aren't particularly good critical thinkers, but they at least have some emotional limbic system. The only thing that makes me doubt this, is that we have scans of people who have epilepsy, and many of them see abnormalities in their brain on brain imaging.

So is this a whole structural integrity issue all the way down or just the outer shell?

I'm not sure anyone knows why actually for any one individual. A brain as you point out seems like a chaotic place to us, and we don't have initial conditions usually to make informed judgements. This is a challenge that science tries to address, but can't because probably money.
 

Black Rose

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generalized (non-motor) absence petit mal seizures

abnormal electrical activity in both sides of the brain at the same time.

I have not seen a neurologist since 2009

When I took the ADHD med Strattera in Nov 2022 my anxiety was reduced by 80%

I feel anxiety in the right front of my head. (the orbital prefrontal cortex suppresses amygdala over-activity)

It is a selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) medicine.​

TakeChargeOfYourBrain Norepinephrine​

 
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