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Marael

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All right. As I may have mentioned to some of you in game I have epilepsy, a very rare and sever kinda that causes cluster seizures rather than single ones. Meaning where a normal epileptic would have one seizure and wake up a little disoriented, I have 5 to 8 seizures in a very short time and wake up 6-8 hours later and can't remember my name and can't figure out what the hell is going on around me. In hte last three months I have had over forty of these type of seizures. This happens to me every now and then when I am under a lot of stress (which I have been having had several family members die recently) or when my body builds up an immunity to the medication that I am taking because I have to take such large doses to control my seizures. When this happens I have a great amny seizures in a short amount of time.

Due to extreme stress and a built up immunity to my mediaction I have been seizing a lot lately over hte last two or three months. My fiance, who lives with me, and pretty much takes care of me in times like this was in Chicago on business for several months.

Imagin if you will, what would happen to you if you put your brain in a paint mixer and ran electric shocks through it. As you can imagine, after so many of those your world starts to be pretty shaken up and the lines between dreams and reality becomes skewed and wavers. You start to hear and see things that aren't there. you can't tell reality from dreams because they both seem real. I have been halucinating rather badly lately. I do not know for how long or how badly it has been. This has happend to me before but it has never been so bad.

A crazy person does not know that they are crazy. That statement is very true. I had no idea what was happening to me until my fiance returned earlier today and took me straight to a doctor. I am now on medication given to schizophrenics to control hallucinations and will be until they can mix and match Seizure medications well enough to control my epilepsy. And until that time I will checking myself into a hospital, leaving this game and this message board for a time.

I do not know how much of what I remember about the last few months is real and what was fantasy. It all seems real to me. As clearity started coming into my mind this afternoon I began reading my journal that I write all of hte day's events in every night to try and figure that out what exactly has been happening lately. The entries for the past few weeks are completely incoherrant and the ones before that are not much better.

So the purpose of this post is not only to explain my coming absense but to appologize for anything that I have done or said over the past few months to piss any of you off unjustly. I have not been in my right mind for quite a while and I may have said things I did not mean to hurt people for no apparent reason or for imagined reasons. I appologize for anything that I may have said that was untrue or nonsensical as it was probably inspired by fantasies, dreams or hallucinations, all of which I was unable to distinguish from reality. As I said, I do not know what parts of the last little while have been real and what parts have not been. I don't quite have time right now to go through and search for all of my posts from the last few weeks so I thought just a general apology would have to do. If you must think badly of me for things I have done, then do so as it is your right. If you do not care to believe what I say here now then do not, it is your right to do so as well.

If there is nothing to appologize for then please disregard this post. I am checking myself into the hospital until I become stable enough to get on without supervision. When I return home I will most likely return to the game and possibly to these boards. I know that this doesn't exactly belong on hte flame board but it seems that more people come to this one than the others and so, it will be read by more people I may have wronged. So, with that, until I return, later all.
 
Sorry to hear about that Marael. Sounds rather strange and convient, but it would explain quite a bit. Good luck in the hospital.

Are there any healthy people on this board? So far in just today we have a woman experiencing her 4th miscarriage, a extremelly depressed smn, and now epilepsy. :shock:
 
Not to sound unsympathetic, but if you are claiming to be suffering from the condition known as status epilipticus (The only form of epilepsy that remotely matches your description) then I am highly skeptical.

Nobody cares if you buy gil, honestly, you didn't need to take it so far as to concoct something like this :( please take a break from this game, it sounds as if it has become very unhealthy for you. :cry:
 
a medical condition like this is far beyond your controll in any way whatsoever and i hope you can unload some stress and possibly return to a more normal life such as your condition permits.
Best wishes
~dark
 
Im sorry to hear that. Please make sure you keep yourself healthy and try to get better soon.
 
I can understand your pain Marael. Even though I am not epileptic, I know plenty about this condition, as well as the fact that I will be a volunteer counselor at Camp Spike n' Wave (a camp specifically for children with Epilepsy, provided by the Epilepsy Foundation).

Be well and take care of yourself. :D
 
Raivyn said:
Not to sound unsympathetic, but if you are claiming to be suffering from the condition known as status epilipticus (The only form of epilepsy that remotely matches your description) then I am highly skeptical.

Nobody cares if you buy gil, honestly, you didn't need to take it so far as to concoct something like this :( please take a break from this game, it sounds as if it has become very unhealthy for you. :cry:

... Who mentioned anything about buying gil?? :?

Marael: Hope you'll get better. Do anything and everything that will relieve stress.
 
Mar, I know we haven't talked in some time, not because you said or did anything to me, but simply because I moved on from our LS... But..

You had always been a good friend to me. You were always very nice, willing to help in a heartbeat, and your capslock rants about killing beastmen (Followed by your 'Mwahahahahaah') never ceased to make me smile.

I hope you feel better soon, Mar, and that they can get you the medication you need to control your seizures. Pains me to hear that you're in such a condition. I'm cheering for you, Miss Ninja.
Take care.
 
Not to sound like an ass or anything but isn't there a warning on every video game packaging or instruction booklet about Epileptic Seizures?

Do you follow these precautions?

http://www.microsoft.com/games/home/photosensitive_warning.aspx

This is just from Microsoft but there is plent of info about it online. I would just imagine some of the animations from Weapon Skills and such could trigger some effects. Honestly, FFXI is not a game that you can just "take a break from playing", especially if you are in a party.
 
MajorHavoc said:
Not to sound like an ass or anything but isn't there a warning on every video game packaging or instruction booklet about Epileptic Seizures?

Do you follow these precautions?

http://www.microsoft.com/games/home/photosensitive_warning.aspx

This is just from Microsoft but there is plent of info about it online. I would just imagine some of the animations from Weapon Skills and such could trigger some effects. Honestly, FFXI is not a game that you can just "take a break from playing", especially if you are in a party.

Having grown up with epilepsy i can tell you that is actually exceedingly rare. When my parents asked about it before getting my first NES game that had the warning (it didn't exists until a little after the NES US release as far as i can remember) they asked my docs. I know they said it was a potential but exceedingly low.

You see the warnings because someone was injured while having a seziure the could have possibly been triggered by a video game. The successfully sued over it.

In fact stayign up all night pre EEGs the doctors even suggest watchign TV and playing video games all night even though the potential is there. It is that tiny.
 
Flashing strobe lights rarely induce seizure. It's usually not an issue for the vast majority of people. Lack of sleep is probably the most common aggravator.

While seizures usually aren't life-threatening, several posters are correct in saying that status epilepticus (back-to-back seizures with no recovery period) is a very serious matter. You must treat it aggressively, and treatment requires intravenous anticonvulsants as opposed to oral medication.

I hope everything turns out well.
 
Rones, don't forget me! I just recieved 10 punctures to the head and almost a concussion in my grandpa's basement... he has spikey stecko and i am too tall for some of the roof. I didn't notice and gave myself a good whack.... :cry:
 
Gah, forgot the most important line ><

I hope treatments go well, even the relatively minor ones (i am sure compared to you) i endured they are absolutely exhausting at times. Which can make the problem even worse for a while....

Not to mention the diet and sleep pattern changes forced on you for testing ; ;
 
WSM, go to hell you piece of shit. If you cant be encouraging to someone who obviously has a pretty serious disorder. then you need to STFU. The girl really believed there were 6 CFH's on Argus, she even mentioned some in LS chat one day. Something really is happening IRL, and yes, she's mentioned family dieing several weeks ago, before the whole Argus thing happened, and yes her cousin is REAL, she doesnt buy gil. She talked to him once, and I asked his name and did a /sea (however the name escapes me at this time :oops: )

In Mar's defense.... she's in a serious condition. Yes she "lied" but only because she didnt know the difference between reality and fantasy.
 
El Curago said:
WSM, go to hell you piece of shit. If you cant be encouraging to someone who obviously has a pretty serious disorder. then you need to STFU. The girl really believed there were 6 CFH's on Argus, she even mentioned some in LS chat one day. Something really is happening IRL, and yes, she's mentioned family dieing several weeks ago, before the whole Argus thing happened, and yes her cousin is REAL, she doesnt buy gil. She talked to him once, and I asked his name and did a /sea (however the name escapes me at this time :oops: )

In Mar's defense.... she's in a serious condition. Yes she "lied" but only because she didnt know the difference between reality and fantasy.

Yea but how should he know, come the fuck on how much sketchier can her story sound? I'm not saying she is lying but you can't honestly be mad about someone throwing cheap shots her way in this situation.
 
[quote="vang]Yea but how should he know, come the fuck on how much sketchier can her story sound? I'm not saying she is lying but you can't honestly be mad about someone throwing cheap shots her way in this situation.[/quote]

yes her story does sound sketchy, and if it weren't for character witnesses, such as people (like myself) who share a LS with her on a daily basis, and have know her for over a year now, I would agree she was a gil-buying liar. However, I have known Mar, and even though her story is a bit "out there" its still truth. You don't want to believe that, fine, that's your business, but don't be taking cheap shots at a friend of mine who's in some serious trouble right now, because I'll stick up for their honor.

btw, Vang, teh cheap shots line wasn't directed towards you.
 
I would like to say two things here. The first is, the internet is the last place you want to be making claims. Of anything from your life.

If you can, in some way prove this that would be fine, but generally people can't. That leaves it up to the speculation of idiots like Wolf, and as you can see that doesn't help you.

The second thing, is that I know very little about the disease of which you speak. Outside the ONE person I have ever known in my life to have it. Good guy, hard worker, committed to his job.

Also had to be held down and kept from swallowing his tongue on a few occasions when he would have a seizure. :cry:

That being said, I have every repsect for people who DO have this condition, and so help me god if you're just outright lying as you seem to have a tendency to do around here I will bring my full attention to infecting every further piece of BS you spew on here.

That's my two gil. Take it with a grain of salt if you have to.
 
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