Q. About ten years ago I was using speed for a yeas straight. When I stopped I started getting seizures and I was also diagnosed as Bi-polar .It does run on my fathers side. Anyways I recently found out that I do not have true seizures. I believe they are called false seizures. I was told people who have been abused or molested some times have them. I was molested when I was younger. thru I must have booked it out because I started having flash backs around the same time as I got the seizures and bi-polar.

  A. Whether you were or were not molested, it is probably not the cause of the seizures. I think (and pray) that this ridiculous theory died out years ago. Pseudoseizures (the medical name for your false seizures) are invariably related to other psychiatric problems. Get a psychiatric evaluation, see what else is going on, and get treated. Hopefully, the pseudoseizures and other problems will all go away.

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