Anyone have seizures due to Anxiety?

[AnxiousCanadianChic]

I don’t want to ask too many things at once here but I am wondering if anyone has had a seizure due to stress or anxiety? I had NEVER had a seizure growing up and in October 2013 my mom died and I was a mess but had to pull myself together as I had just start schooling. Come February 2014 when I was done my schooling I had my first grand mal seizure. Went to E.R. cat scan was good and was sent home. A few months later my bf and I went to the grocery store my mom always went to and I had another one. They started me on pills and I haven’t had a grand mal since.... I wonder if stress could have caused it? But then I think the pills wouldn’t of helped.. I now get these “episodes” mostly with high anxiety where I all of a sudden go blank.. If I’m talking to someone, I can hear them but can’t understand what they’re saying. I go to talk and my bf says it sounds like I’m speaking another language, I’ve also been told I’ll start randomly talking about something else( I don’t remember what I’ve said). I also can look at text and see it but it’s all jumbled. These “episodes “ last about 2-3 mins and then I slowly go back to normal. Then of course my already bad anxiety gets worse. So has anyone gotten a seizure from stress/anxiety? Or had similar “episodes “ like mine?

[Hidden]

I have gone blank but didn’t think about anxiety that was causing this. Interesting, I will start my journaling today and write this down to remind myself if I’m anxious when I go blank. I’m also bi polar so I will ask my therapist as well.

[AnxiousCanadianChic in reply to Hidden]

Do you experience the same issues? Like you can’t speak coherently or when listening to someone it’s just sounds like gibberish?

[Hidden in reply to AnxiousCanadianChic]

I haven’t had this problem yet. I think it might be helpful to write this down and let your doctor or therapist answer this. I’m having anxiety most mornings but l like to know what causes your symptoms. Please let me know what doctor says.

[AnxiousCanadianChic]

I’m not aware of anyone in my family ever having seizures and I had never had one until then. My neurologist said it’s normal to get it at any age and yes it could be a coincidence that I developed epilepsy as an adult. For me it’s the episodes I have where I can’t speak,listen or read coherently when I get these “episodes “ which I don’t even know 100% if they are seizures or if my anxiety shifted to include these episodes. It drives me crazy and makes my anxiety soo much worse. 🙁

[mcginnmx]

Sweety I am no doctor but what it sounds like is that you have epilepsy. As my dad grew older he was diagnosed with narcolepsy and cataplexy ( basically epilepsy) when he would scared or over stressed he would have seizures. Maybe ask your family if it runs in the family