The Epilepsy Network (TEN) / News / How I Learned to Confront My Epilepsy – Mark McAllister, journalist with Global News Toronto opens up about living with epilepsy
“It took two years after being diagnosed with epilepsy for me to reach the point where I wanted to talk about it. Two years of struggling to try and understand what the condition was and how it was going to affect my overall health. Two years of discovering the impact it would have on my everyday life. Two years of being afraid that other people’s perception of me was going to be different.
The difference in my case was that there were many others, beyond friends and family, who already knew I was dealing with a medical condition. They had seen me experience a seizure before anyone had figured out what it was. There were a lot of questions. I just wasn’t prepared to answer them yet.”
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