Posted by Elizabeth on July 1, 2001, at 16:25:56
In reply to Re: aha! Deja Vu » Elizabeth, posted by Zo on July 1, 2001, at 1:29:10
> > > . . is a classic Temporal Lobe Epilepsy seizure. . .
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> > Partial seizures with temporal foci come in so many flavours that it's hard to imagine any one sort that could be called "classic!" :-) (One could say that some symptoms are "classic," though, such as olfactory hallucinations and deja vu.)
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> Elizabeth. . .I feel uncomfortable with your post. . like it's a corrective. I admire your knowledge, but I didn't come here to speak about my conditions in order to be corrected.I suppose you could call it "corrective," but I think that "additive" is more descriptive of the part you chose to cite. The "classic" thing is just semantics: I was taking an opportunity to comment on the incredible variety of rather curious experiences reported by people with TLE.
(There was a part of my post that I'd call "corrective," but it was a completely different point than the remark you quoted.)
I'm sure that, as a writer, you appreciate the value of clarity. Please don't take my post as a threat or attack of any kind. That's not at all the spirit in which it was intended.
> Do you have TLE?
I would hope that you'd recognise that not having TLE does not equate to ignorance of TLE (and, for that matter, that having TLE does not make one an expert on it). But since you ask, I have had limbic partial seizures, although I don't have epilepsy. I'm also generally curious about the type of experiences that can be generated by temporal lobe seizures, and about the similarity of some of these experiences to those associated with "psychiatric" events (such as panic attacks and dissociative states).
> I don't see any restrictions on PyschoBabble to speaking anecdotally.
Me neither, and in any case, I don't presume to enforce the rules here -- although I don't see any restrictions on disagreeing as such, much less on simply adding to a point made by another poster.
Of course it's okay to post your own experiences. It's also okay to add that experiences that are described in some of the same terms as yours may not have the same cause as yours, or that TLE (for example) produces a number of different types of experiences (not just the type of experiences that one individual with TLE has).
Everybody has something of value to say. I'm sorry to hear that my attempt to elaborate on your post caused you discomfort. Really, the "classic symptoms" issue shouldn't be taken too seriously (IMO).
What type of writing do you do, BTW?
-elizabeth
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