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“Every great achiever overcame the greatest obstacles.”

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“I'm not an epileptic but you're an arsehole. I'm important. I matter. I can do anything. I'm a sexy, strong woman that happens to have epilepsy. Do you get it? I have epilepsy but it's not who I am.”

Epilepsy Epileptic

Book:Electricity

Source: Electricity

“Electricity is life but electricity is an invisible fist punching up your spine, knocking your brains right out of your skull.”

Epilepsy Epileptic Seizure

Book:Electricity

Source: Electricity

“[Epilepsy] gave her an adversity to fight against. It had shaped her personality, the need to be careful and secretive, and the ability to see things a bit differently from the neurotypical. She granted that this feeling of having a broken brain that required her to be sensitive, to look always inward to survive, might be why she turned artist.”

Artist Neurodivergent Epilepsy Epileptic Neurotypical

Book:Flies to Wanton Boys

Source: Flies to Wanton Boys

“Changing is never a problem. The problem begins when we change ourselves just to fit into someone else’s opinion of us. In trying to be enough for them, we forget that we were already enough for ourselves.”

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Book:Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote

Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote

“Suddenly, it seems obvious to me: Only fantasy books can make sense of the skewed reality in which I live.”

Reality Fantasy Epileptic David B

Book:Epileptic

Source: Epileptic

“In an electroencephalogram… one of her seizures was almost identical to an orgasm... Nothing happened during a seizure that couldn’t happen outside one, except that Roselyn was not in control of it and it happened all at once. Since then, she had experienced hundreds of orgasms and dozens of seizures and, though she didn’t come close to finding the latter nearly as entertaining as the former, it was always in her mind. In the midst of Dryden’s often machine gun lovemaking or her own considerably more directed and soft ministrations, it was always in the back of her mind at the moment of climax—this is a tenth of a seizure, this is a fifth of one.”

Sex Orgasm Epilepsy Epileptic Seizure

Book:Flies to Wanton Boys

Source: Flies to Wanton Boys

“His father was an epileptic, and his sister was an imbecile.”

Epileptic Imbecile

Book:Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study

Source: Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study

“Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.”

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Author:Stephanie S. Covington

“Prosecute the stress not the passer”

Stress Management Stressors Kill The Stress

Author:Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Depressed people become unable to remember happy times, or times when they even had a normal mood. The very concept of a normal mood itself becomes alien. I’ve had more than one depressed participant offer me a pained smile during an interview when I asked, -When was the last time you felt like your usual self? – These are the disorientations of chronic depression.”

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Book:The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

Source: The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic