My steps in the acceptance of my epilepsy:
Epilepsy! -- What's epilepsy?
Denial
No I DON'T have epilepsy!
Why me?
Why is God punishing me?
I'm some sort of freak!
My life is ruined!
I can't do any of the things that I want to do!
OK I have epilepsy...
Guess I'm going to have to learn to live with it!
Now I'll find out who my REAL friends are!
I am not an epileptic, I am a person who happens to have epilepsy!
Lots of great people have had epilepsy!
Life goes on.
Epilepsy/epileptic what's the big deal?
People with diabetes are diabetic; people with asthma are asthmatic.
It's just a word...
Epilepsy is just one facet of what makes me ME!
This is ME, take it or leave it!
(It took me more than 35 years to get to this last step!)
Some of these steps were simultanious.
I got past some of these steps very quickly (less than a week.)
Some of these steps took several years to get past.
If you had additional steps or if your sequence was different, please share!
Epilepsy! -- What's epilepsy?
Denial
No I DON'T have epilepsy!
Why me?
Why is God punishing me?
I'm some sort of freak!
My life is ruined!
I can't do any of the things that I want to do!
OK I have epilepsy...
Guess I'm going to have to learn to live with it!
Now I'll find out who my REAL friends are!
I am not an epileptic, I am a person who happens to have epilepsy!
Lots of great people have had epilepsy!
Life goes on.
Epilepsy/epileptic what's the big deal?
People with diabetes are diabetic; people with asthma are asthmatic.
It's just a word...
Epilepsy is just one facet of what makes me ME!
This is ME, take it or leave it!
(It took me more than 35 years to get to this last step!)
Some of these steps were simultanious.
I got past some of these steps very quickly (less than a week.)
Some of these steps took several years to get past.
If you had additional steps or if your sequence was different, please share!
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