Focal Dyscognitive Seizure (Complex Partial Seizure) 

The accuracy of this acting is incredible. This is literally the exact scenario every time I have a seizure, down to every small movement he made.

i appreciated that in the demonstration, they didn’t apologize afterwards, just said “hey, this happens sometimes, just bear with me”. As someone who apologizes for my symptoms beyond my control, it was just nice to watch that

Then there’s me with my sister acting like nothing is wrong being all like “we walking? I’ll come too”. Just moving stuff out of the way if needs be. She can hear and appreciates that I’m not talking to her any differently but still there for her.

I have complex partials! I think it's important to note that a lot of people have a state of confusion after and don't just snap right out of it. They might need 15-30 mins to get the bearings again, but nothing to worry about! Just don't expect them to make a whole lot of sense.

Complex-partials are what I've always known my whole life. Some employers' awareness that I was epileptic has kept me from jobs, but the employers I've had, thank God, have always been helpful to me like this man's and they realized it was such a dramatic thing as a tonic-clonic.

This happened to me at work. Was sitting at my desk typing and suddenly felt an indescribable flood of sensations in my head. Like my brain was pumped with electricity. Visual/aural hallucinations. Blacked out for a time; woke up and noticed a long line of random letters on the screen. Was woozy afterward. I knew what it was from a prior episode. I told my boss and she drove me to the hospital. They put me on meds (divalproex), which have proven effective. I worked from home for 3 months, back when doing so wasn't common. I told a few colleagues about the seizure. Word got around to some of the nasty people in the office: One idiot said that I was lying, and that I couldn't have had a seizure because I hadn't been "rolling around on the floor." smh

my dad has partial complex seizures! He has them relatively frequently, and if he ever goes more than 2 weeks between a seizure that's when we start to pay more attention since the next seizure he has usually will have a longer recovery period for him than normal. The signs my dad have are he will pace back and forth, his hands will shake (and if he is doing such as smoking we will take the cigarette away from him so he doesn't injure himself), he almost always drools and sound like he's choking a cough (he hasn't had issues breathing, it's usually just because he'll build up salavia in his mouth very fast during an episode), his eyes twitch, and when he's first recovering he will have very incoherent speech ( either mixing up words, continuing a fabricated conversation his mind gave him during the episode, or ask where someone is). Whoever is with him typically will hold his hand (he has a death grip if you don't tell him to be careful), and talk to him while he goes through the episode. There's been a few instances where he will try to bite someone's fingers after we hold his hand (mostly bc he thinks we've given him food, but he stops trying to bite after we tell him to). He has seizures as a result of a fetal stroke, he had very mild seizures as a child (and was once misdiagnoised as just having "heart burn" by a doctor as a result), but in his mid/late twenties he had a grand mal seizure after several years of being seizure free. Since then he's been dealing with partial complex seizures on a frequent basis. The only time we had to take him to the ER for it (besides when he had his first grand mal seizure) was many years later when he got extremely sick and began having grand mal seizures without warning. After he got sick (i honestly can't remember with what, the doctors just said he had a high fever that could be making the seizures worse), he had a grand mal seizure in the kitchen and I was the one who discovered it. I didn't call 911 but did make sure he was physically okay from start to finish, and i informed my mom (who was at work) about it as soon as he was aware of his surroundings again. He ended up having another grand mal seizure hours later when i was explaining to my parents the step-by-step events of the first episode, and that's when my mom decided he needed to go to a hospital. That was approximately 5 years ago, and he's only had partial complex seizures since then. Everyone is effected by epilepsy in different ways, so be prepared to by flexible, and always make sure the person having a seizure has everything they need while recovering!

I guess my aunt was dealing with partial seizure during her childhood. As she would stop talking, walking, eating, or other body movements and would constantly stare for upto 15 mins. When it ends she would feel headache, unbearable headache. And when she took medicines it stopped, it is cured though any form of seizure is incurable. But she is still suffering from headaches 🤐😬😬

Unfortunately, I killed my career by having these.... or can I say THEY killed my career! I went from a VP of a company - lost 4 jobs from having them, ended as a customer service rep - and am now disabled..... sit at home all day... no driving etc.. sit at home. Would love to be working and have a career! They started at age 46. SUCKS!

This is great info. People need to know what their seeing should they encounter this.

generally you are aware of the seozure having happened and wouldnt ask "it happened again". Plus you wouldnt snap right back to your usual state after it ended. Often after it ends ill be trembling and fall asleep for a long time

Very good short demo. Appreciate it a lot.

Had my first one of these recently. Possibly as a side effect of having a stroke Last year.

I actually apparently had a focal seizure during a Zoom work meeting yesterday and since I was at home my boss ended up calling my parents (who live on the other side of the country) and letting them know what happened. I was feeling pretty disoriented in my own one bedroom apartment so I had figured something like this had happened! (Unfortunately during a work activity I had a grand mal seizure once, but not my first, and they sent me to the hospital ER).

These are in fact focal seizures. They also can be accompanied by migraine head aches. Which can be miss diagnosed. You can have a serious migraine feel pain or no pain and there is also confusion that follows. Been there through both.

I can feel it coming in my head, like a pressure feeling , so I relax, and prepare myself to loose control over my body, I lie or sit down otherwise am going to fall, it feels as if am drawing back into my self, i feel like am in the Center of my head while it becomes dark around me. It takes all my energy away while its happening. I feel panicky and scared. I can feel it in my head at first it’s like a some sort of pressure coming down and consuming me. My brain starts to shut of and I am very sleepy . I get very sleepy and tired when it’s happening. My head falls down to side when am laying down or forward if am sitting up straight, and my eyes close I start saying prayers in my head because I get anxious. I can hear things happening around me so am conscious but at the same time I am detached. I can’t talk while it’s happening nor can I respond to anyone or move my body, my body feels limp and weak.. i get a rising feeling in my stomach like when you are in a roller coaster and it’s going down fast, also i get this feeling of nauseousness in my stomach. I start to swallow a lot during it and for abit more after it. It last for about minute and a half max or 15 secs minimum, then I come back again slowly to myself. I feel weak and tired after it. I feel fine 10 minutes later When it’s for 15 sec or so less symptoms present themselves and when it longer like a min or so then all the symptoms show. Or Annabelle Lande what is witnessed exactly if you you don’t mind sharing hun x This is what I experience below I get a warning that it’s going to happen, the warning feels like am going to blackout. some sort of sensation comes down from my brain and consumes my head and body. It’s very hard to explain I get a feeling of extreme dread and fear. I have started to relax now, and prepare myself to loose control over my body, so I lie or sit down, when it is happening. (My last one I didn’t have a warning ) The next stage feels as if am drawing back into myself as if am fainting, while my eyes become dark so I close them. Am still aware of what’s happening, I dont loose consciousness. This experience takes all my energy away. My brain starts to shut of and I get very sleepy and beyond exhausted while it’s happening and afterwards aswell. My head falls down to side. I tell my self to be calm and that it will be over soon (in my head) I feel very anxious and fearful during it, a feeling like am about to die. I get a feeling like when your stomach drop when you are on a really fast rollercoaster going downward. It’s aaccompanied with a feeling of nausea. I start to swallow rapidly during the episode and also a while after it has finished. I can’t talk while it’s happening nor can I respond to anyone or move my body, and I don’t have the ability to snap out of it my body feels limp and weak I can’t lift my arms or legs and I can only stare blankly. I don’t have control over my body so I have to let it run its cause. As am going more and more into this state, any noises, eg tv, any small talk, cars, radio or whatever else quietens down and for split second I dont hear anything at all but before long they start to pick up the volume again as am coming back to myself. It lasts for about minute max and 30 secs min I am aware of everything happening from start to finish I come back again slowly to my normal self. I feel weak, sleepy and tired after it.

Here's my story: I was 16 when I first had a blank episode . To elaborate: I was doing my physics homework and all of a sudden (without any prior feeling) I just went blank ,like I didn't exist for that particular moment ,then slowly when I started to get conscious of my surroundings I was really confused like what happened...., I didn't mention it to anyone....then such epidodes kept on repeating only that I was now able to tell when is the next one going to come on because I got signs that I was about to blank out and it was such a strange deja vu kind of feeling and my surroundings seemed strange too, I would go blank then come back forgetting what I had done the entire day, but slowly slowly remembering it on trying, this used to happen 4 to 5 times a day and 2 to 3 times a week and by the end of day I would be dead of tiredness and headache...,I didn't go to doctors because 1) I didn't know how to describe that absolutely strange feeling and 2) I am scared of them So the matter remained undiagnosed for more than 2 years and I continued to suffer trying to find answers from people and God Then I joined college, however classes were online, the entire week I had really overworked myself eating less etc and I was feeling little anxious, irritated and restless before I went to sleep . The next morning I woke up to find my mother and sister sitting beside my bed asking if I was fine, I saw the watch and just realised it was 7:50 am in the morning, I am never that late , but I asked them what happened, so what I came to know is my sister who sleeps with me called for my mother and my mom said I was shivering violently so she asked was I feeling cold , abd my sister said it looked like a seizure(I was seizing badly enough to shake the bed which woke her up) they seemed scared but I hadn't realised exactly what was going on , I felt confused and dazed and everything seemed new and unfamiliar all the day my mother even asked what's on my tongue, I said I burned it while drinking coffee ,so then I went to bathroom and got ready thinking how can I have seizure it must be something else, then checked my tongue in the mirror and saw it cut into deep lines, I was like oh..I really have bitten my tongue ,my lips had gone blue too and my entire body muscles ached so much like I had done some heavy strenous physical activity and there was lactic acid accumulation all over and the entire day I felt sleepy ...Obviously my mom then took me to doctor who referred me to neurologist to go within 2 days, I had no further attacks since that one, I got nervous and started researching on net about epilepsy when I came across the types and when I read the description of complex partial seizures I was like this is it , all my symptoms match , atleast now i have words to describe to any doctor, (i didn't know those blank episodes were periods of unconsciousness) however I didn't diagnose myself I found courage and told neurologist whatever happened in whichever words i could. She immediately started me on Levera. But my mom wasn't ready to believe it ,because it was just one episode of seizure and I was also later found to be covid positive that time but asymptomatic, so as Ordered MRI came back normal and EEG too was normal, but I was having issues with levera so went to another doctor so Sir gave me Sodium valproate and Breveteracitam (which I currently am on but I still have those blank episodes though with reduced frequency) but still for hearts satisfaction and proper diagnosis we went to another really reputed and trusted govt hospital , there too MRI and EEG both came normal, and now I am dying within insides with the fear I always carried people believe I am faking it or it's psychological ,but I am not, I really don't make all this up and I myself don't know what's happening, what to do if no one trusts me.. If anyone has any advice I would be happy to have it.

I got complex partial and sometimes can leads to tonic clonic. For minimal fits like this. I might got confused and disoriented for usually an hour or two. I even forgot who am I and what am I doing before. For serious fits like tonic clonic, I'd get confused for days.

Watching this made me😢 I have a TBI and suffer from these and gran mall seizures. I have a a VNS and lately I've been having more than normal. I was on the phone with a friend today and the next thing I knew there was a sheriff deputy at my door. I started acting stupid and he called 911

Yes ,the same as me .I'm now 66 ,plagued with these for 48 hours EVERY week Many of them back to back with s lot of confusion ,wandering ,picking at my fingers ,sitting towards the edge of the chair ,unable to communicate ,flickering eyelids ,random vocalisations ..My new Epilepsy team have said the many videos we' be sent are inconclusive There are no obvious physical signs to them .I'm still in limbo.I have a pattern to them they occur on the 6th /7th day every week Why ?? No knows .

When I have seizure it's just like I suddenly woke up.. Don't know when it start nor stop..

My husband just started having these at age 63 only we didn't even know what they were until they happened in the ER. Very scary for the loved one watching them go through this. Yes, it takes about 15 to 30 minutes to be fully functional again, and that is in the case it is just one seizure. My husband went through five of them within a few hours and it affected his memory, both short- and long-term. He's been on Keppra since and has not had a reoccurrence but cannot work or drive for up to six months. Is this really connected with Epilepsy and why so late in life?

>agent 47 when you leave the controller to go pee

This makes me sad

Great video. It happens to me 3 or 4 times a year. Especially when on aeroplanes or public presentations. God I now hate PowerPoint. 😅

I have partial seizure also

That's not what it's like, at least afterwards it isn't. You don't just "snap out of it" and everything is all hunky dory, it takes like at least 15 minutes to get it together again

My sister has this type of siezure but she falls down and is confused afterwards

I think my Neice has this. It’s just more severe but it starts of like this. It just started out of the blue. Now she has some that she stops breathing and has to be hospitalized. Her father has dementia and was diagnosed before the age of 55. Both started around the same time. Another family member just told me their house is riddled with black mold from a hidden leak. Has anyone ever heard of that happening? Mold causing seizures and Dementia?

poor guy feels so embarrassed

it is amazing acting but you left out the postictal confusion that may last for hours sometimes

I get accused of being drunk for slurred speech I've left many jobs and restaurants out of embarrassment. Wtf happened. I have good videos. My eyes droop and I've trouble talking but I thought I was OK. I have a history of seizures unfortunately 😕. The eeg was fine but 6 month later I got one. Friends had seen them. I often get accused of being drunk. NO.

Looks more like a petit mal seizure than a partial seizure 😬