Stress and anxiety triggering seizures
Stress can be hard to avoid, but our bodies can feel its impact. For some, stress or anxiety can also be a cause of seizures. And then more stress and anxiety about having seizures can pile on top of that! It can be a vicious cycle.
**Tell us: How do you manage your stress and anxiety to avoid seizures?
Listening to music. Or doing things and a musician. Artwork. Playing with the guide Dog I have. A bigger stressor is when you are around an emotional contagion someone who is controlling and has such aggression due to their own stress and anxiety. All I can do is get up and walk away. My neurologist told me don’t forget seizure triggers include other people.
I have to humble myself and read to try and not have stress or anxiety but I still have it every now and then.
growing plants from seed and taking care of them all summer i nourish them and they nourise me
Dance and weight bearing exercise have been my solace.
I left a work environment at a school that would have broken me. After 5 years and increasingly worse work days with isolation and anxiety/depression escalated from monthly to weekly to daily. The last year was hourly. There was a marked lack of understanding/support. I guess, being an adult, I could regulate myself and deal with things. I had to leave as I knew something would give and it would be me. The healing, while slow, has been nirvana.
leaving a situation that you know is not serving you takes courage. I’m glad you took the steps to do what was best for you💙. Sending positive vibes and well wishes for continued healing. All my best, Julie (team member)
