Feeling Very Depressed After an Epileptic Seizure a Few Days Ago

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’).

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’).

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