Epilepsy/stress/employment/type casting

[Alessigodfather]

Hi all,

Just a short note .......

Has anyone been typecast that stress causes your seizures in your employment and that it has become more stressful because of this

[redboat]

Hello Alessigodfather,

I have not exactly been typecast but when I told employers that I had Epilepsy at the end of the interview, their demenour changed and I knew they would not give me the job. If I hadn't mentioned my epilepsy I would have been hired. But you have to divulge your medical history.

I use to go home, have a cry and then in the evening a sz would occur. Then I thought .......

I told them it was controlled with medication ( how can you prove that it is or isn't ). I was hired, felt better, moods improved, no grand mal sz just absence one's. No problems.

Yes there is typesetting..... work your way around it.

Good Luck