Feeling Very Depressed After an Epileptic Seizure a Few Days Ago

I'm sorry to hear about your seizures you are also still having all these years later, I think the week or so [in my case its usually about that long] following it is the worst part, everything feels unfamiliar and you just want to get back on track again, but your brain isn't ready yet, is how I find it feels like. Sleeping is one of my main activities in the aftermath period, I usually find myself sleeping as much as I am able too

SJH1994 said:

So I was diagnosed with epilepsy nine years ago now, due to a build up of things on my mind recently, I had a fairly big seizure in the early hours of Friday morning.

Due to a near death experience 52 years ago when I was 3, I have been having Psychogenic Non Epileptiform Seizures, more simply and sensibly called stress induced seizures.

SJH1994 said:

Although it was three days ago, I'm at that point now where although I don't feel ill, I still don't feel myself, ie everything doesn't feel quite "right", and I also feel very depressed.

That’s one of the problems with seizures ~ the more intense the seizure; the more your neurological networks and physiological systems get re-written and depleted, with toxic hangovers on account of stress induced free-radicals and also inhibited recovery rates due to autistic burnout . . . just making things so much harder to cope with and much much easier to lose track of.

SJH1994 said:

. I know epilepsy is quite commonly paired with autism, I was just wondering if anyone else who has epilepsy ever feels the same after experiencing a seizure.

Stoicism and sarcastic-ironic humour is how I mitigate the depression to lesser or greater degrees successfully, what with depression being a cruising for additional bruisings. I also take advantage of not being able to think or talk linguistically after seizures for however long depending upon severity ~ and instead deeply and gently breath through my distressed feelings and emotions as if my bladder and bowels are my lungs and my feet are my nostrils (as a grounding methodology) breathing as if into and out from the the earth (which helps the shot-away airborne division state of affairs involved with feeling all shot away and swollen or numb brained after minor or major ‘nerve-quakes’).

Ah, that makes sense.

I suppose it's good there is a reason and you can do something about it.

Take care of yourself.

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Ah yes, Grand Mal seizures are what I have too

I was until recently not taking my medication properly [accidentally], I made the mistake of only taking one tablet every night and not one in the morning as well, as I should have been doing. Hopefully things will improve now I am taking two tablets.

That's good, you are going in the right direction at least. 

Of course I don't mind answering that question. 

He started with epilepsy around 7 years old. 

He has Grand Mal seizures and had a number before he admitted he wasn't taking his medication properly.

Since he's been taking his medication he's been okay.

Hi Lonehare12

Thank you, I seem to gradually be feeling slightly better bit by bit each day, but not quite there yet.

If you don't mind me asking, was your husband diagnosed with epilepsy later in life or early on in childhood? I developed it nine years ago in my early 20s, but this was my first bigger seizure in almost exactly four years

HiSJH1994 

That sounds really tough.

My husband has epilepsy, and he often feels out of sorts for a few days after a seizure too.

It seems quite common to feel low or not quite yourself afterwards, it’s a lot for your body to recover from.

I hope you start to feel more like yourself again soon.

Take it easy for a bit if you can, your body needs rest.