Living with a Silent Illness

By Serenity Tipton

There are hundreds of thousands of individuals living with Non-Epileptic Seizures (NES) and Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Events (PNEE) all around the world. This powerful, packed book explains in detail what all of the medical terms are, along with important information for individuals living with NES PNEE. The information in this book is for both the individual living with this illness as well, as their caregivers.

This book does not contain chapters, but sections, such as Seizures Disorder, Mental Distress, Abuse, Personal Stories, along with Testimonials of other individuals I had talked to. This is not a one size fits all type of book. There are so many different names and diagnosis for these issues, which many doctors, neurologist, and psychiatrists find it hard to describe what exactly the diagnosis should be. With anticipation by reading this book, it will help individuals and their families to better understand what Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures, and Non-Epileptic Events.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 14, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524692308

Serenity Tipton

Serenity Tipton is a freelance writer, who had started out by writing poems, and short stories. Serenity was 16 years old when she began writing poems. She loves to write short stories, poems, and has now ventured out to writing books. She also has several degrees, Associates Degree in Business, along with a Bachelors Degree in Science Communications. Serenity Tipton is sincerely invested in the causes, she has written about in her book Serenity is not just the author, but also a victim and survivor of sexual abuse, mental abuse, physical abuse and a survivor of psychogenic non-epileptic events. Mrs. Tipton has also published a few websites, “World of Change” http://world-of-change.webs.com/ and “Living With Non-Epileptic Seizures” http://livingwithnon-epilepticseizures.weebly.com/ . She has a passion for writing and wants to educate others and to be mindful and aware of Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES), and the severity of this illness. Serenity Tipton is from Southeast Missouri, and a proud mother of three adult daughters.

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Living with a

Silent Illness

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Published by AuthorHouse 05/23/2017

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Seizure Disorders

2. Non –Epileptic Events

3. Epilepsy

4. Triggers

5. Mental Distress

6. Anxiety / Anxiety Disorder

7. Abuse

8. What is Sexual Violence?

9. Rape Victims

10. Life’s Baggage

11. Serenity’s Experience

12. Serenity’s Episodes

13. Doctor’s Notes

14. Stress

15. Testimonials

16. What’s in a Name

17. Mental Illness

18. Find the Answer to Your Questions

19. Definitions

20. References

Welcome to, Living With A Silent Illness, A different look inside the world of Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Events, and how they affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals. People from all around the world and from all lifestyles are living with this illness every day of their life. This book had been written with personal experiences, specialists, doctor’s notes, along with other individual’s opinions and testimonies, in addition to how they feel about living with Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Events (PNES) Non-Epileptic Seizures (NES). In this book, you will also find clinical research along with other information about Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Events, the silent illness.

SEIZURE DISORDERS

Seizure disorders come in many forms and are often misdiagnosed. There are over 10 million people living with some type of event disorder, or seizure disorder, other than epilepsy. There are many types of seizure disorders, which do not have the same characteristics of a regular seizure since these types are more of a silent type of event. These types of events or attacks are also known as; psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), psychogenic non-epileptic events (PNEE), non-epileptic events (NEE), pseudo-seizures, and non-epileptic attacks (NEA). Many doctors and specialist are uncomfortable with explaining what NEE is or stands for, when giving a patient a conclusive diagnosis this can often confuse the patient and their families. With no certain diagnosis or taking a chance of being misdiagnosed, usually happen because there is not enough information out there for the doctors or specialist to tell their patients about their seizures or events