Are there any comparisons with acute anxiety, that can be mistaken for complex partial seizure epilepsy?
Actually, these people above are wrong… I know from personal experience! I was misdiagnosed with partial seizure epilepsy, and it was only once I’d been medicated for months on mind-numbing carbamazepine without any success, and been given two 24 hour EEG scans, that my doctor referred me to another one – who, thank god, realised the problem was all mental. My ”seizures” were in fact anxiety attacks. When I have a panic attack, sometimes I can forget things like my name, where I live… I can’t breathe properly, and I feel unable to walk or talk… or I wander around aimlessly. This sort of behaviour could easily be mistaken for seizures. Luckily, I’m in the capable hands of a psychiatrist now, who has got me on the right medication and treatment program. It’s interesting you asked, and I hope this helped!
