When the brain has hiccups (seizures) it places mental health workers in kind of a bind. Psychiatric medication can exacerbate a seizure disorders causing seizures to take place if a person is not on medication to stablize their condition. What is amazing to us is people often forego their seizure medication for years and only want to treat their psychiatric symptoms.
A Seizure disorder is a brain ailment. Sometimes it is from heredity, sometimes it is from a head injury, and sometimes it is from substance use. Why clients argue vehimently about being sent away from our facility to take care of their seizure disorder is baffling.
Have you ever had a seizure or seen somebody having one? It isn't a very pleasant thing. Each time the brain has a seizure it causes brain damage. Fast forward to being elderly, Dimentia is a real concern for those who have had brain ailments. Wouldn't you want to protect your brain? It seems obvious to most. However those with a mental illness will complain and even throw fits if they don't get the elixer that fixes all their problems. And in all actuality we prepare the scripts, keep them in the client chart, and in as soon as a day later - after visiting a medical doctor the client can waltz in and out of here with their psychiatric prescriptions.
Somebody came in today who had been off of their medication for almost a year, and when we found out they had a seizure disorder we sent them away - as usual. The reaction from them was amazing! It was as if they wanted to argue their way into a grand mal seizure!
I had a client with a seizure disorder that was relentless. When the person was an infant the disorder started. As a teen they developed a learning disability, as an adult the seizures became so debilitating that eventually had to be solved with radical brain surgery. Why risk this? Why argue with the professionals that have experience with this?
May you all have great mental health.
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