I listen to music mainly smooth jazz to calm me, relax me. Before I retired I had an accounting job with monthly reports due and deadlines always and I put a little radio in my office and it made my day go smooth as the jazz I was listening to.

I’m having a tough time with this as well. Currently took medical leave after my last tonic clonic seizure in mid-May due to adding a new med (onfi) and dealing with difficult side effects- extreme tiredness, dizziness and headaches. My job as a Clinical Operations Manager for a Transplant program comes with responsibilities that are pretty intense and require a lot of hours and mental capacity that I just currently do not possess. Short term memory loss is also an issue for me. The inability to work is stressful but I can’t imagine being able to perform my job duties without bringing on more seizures from the stress of the job. This is a new diagnosis for me so still trying to get stabilized and I know everyone’s epilepsy journey is different. I’m trying to incorporate meditation into my daily routine. Listening to calming classical music helps some. Would also love to know what others have found helpful.

For me putting the bad days behind me and savoring the good days has become my way of managing these ups and downs. I’ve started keeping a symptom diary of everything I’m feeling and doing- haven’t really learned anything from it yet.
I hope you can have more good days than bad and please give yourself grace. This is a lot to manage.

I had plenty of deadlines in the past, papers 20 + pages long. First I need to know what kind of paper I am writing, fiction or nonfiction. If it is fiction and the book belongs to me, then I write down/summarize what that page is about, I write that information in the book next to the paragraph I do that every day and night. I take breaks

Deadlines and grants along w/ statistical analysis made me work late. The patients sometimes were challenging. . At the location I worked at my friend and I would take a 3 o’clock break and walk around campus which was approximately 3 miles where we walked and get discount chocolate chip cookies in the cafeteria. We laugh and go back to the grind stone. I had hugging seizures w/ running sz then but the break really helped.