Stress yes I know this trigger all too well and the best thing for it is to eliminate it!!! Easier said than done but you are stronger than the stress. Go to a happy place. Make REAL FRIENDS. It can and WILL happen for you. Golden rules take precedence over our health sometimes. Treat others the way you want to be treated and if they can dish it they can take it. I eliminated so much BS out of my life and focused on being and doing better and it worked!!! The moment I started stressing again even slightly, I was having seizures during the whole stressful time.

I believe I had my last brain surgery in August of this year and since eliminating the stress before and after, I've been seizure free💜💯🙏 let's talk and I can help you get through this. Happy Friday and Happy Holidays 😊

@A MyEpilepsyTeam Member Thanks for sharing the name and value of that book!

@SammyJonesli You are absolutely right on the value of any form of therapy as long as you have a good therapist because just being to release all of that pent up stress and anxiety is a major help because too much stress is dangerous not for just triggering seizures but also causing heart attacks and strokes and too many other health problems.

Here is a link to the US National Library of Medicine explaining the wide range of conditions that cognitive behavioral therapy is helpful with.
https://vsearch.nlm.nih.gov/vivisimo/cgi-bin/qu...

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I can't exactly remember what my therapy is... but any therapy will assist. you will find grounding techniques as well as advice on things you are currently dealing with.

before I began, I was having massive stress induced seizures, but I began therapy and began gaining control of my thought process...

since then, I have been les stressed and less anxiety attacks which in turn has lowered a lot of my partials.

Stress is my biggest trigger for seizures although they've gotten somewhat kinda better after 45 years I saw a therapist once which did me no good I guess I couldn't really describe how me, myself and my thoughts were interfering with my everyday life and after having a traumatic brain injury when I was 5 and medical induced into a coma the scar tissue spreading from the inside of my brain out had left me with lots of problems with cognitive issues and unresolved problems I started a journal 5 years ago which along with meditation has help me focus more on fixing my cognitive problems.

I have never seen a therapist because the ones i have been introduced to didn't know what epilepsy was. So i picked up a book called; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy_Made Simple. The author is Seth J. Gillihan, PHD The author talks about 10 strategies to manage Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Panic, and Worry. I am not saying that this is a must read because everyone is different.