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Originally Posted by AProducer'sWetDream

I find it quite disrespectful towards people (I'm not directing this at you, but to some of the people on social media who have had more 'extreme' reactions) who suffer from epilepsy and go through these intense, distressing and sometimes life-threatening seizures on a daily basis that their experiences are being compared to what happened to Janice tonight. Yes I'm sure it was a terrifying experience for her and she may well have had a panic attack- but the way she collapsed to the floor and lay there did not ring true as being a seizure. If she was having a seizure then one of the first things the medic would've done was to check that she wasn't choking/ hurting her head on the floor.

You don't have to be epileptic to have seizures. The fact that people live with epilepsy doesn't mean that those who have non-epileptic seizures should feel bad for it... If anything the opposite; everyone I know with epilepsy is on meds to help their seizures and I don't have any options other than 'don't stand up too fast' and 'make sure people around you know it'll happen'