Living Well With Epilepsy is a comprehensive and trusted source of support, education, research and news for people living with epilepsy and their loved ones.
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder caused by electrical disturbances in the brain that result in seizures. Reviewed by a board-certified neurologist.
Stigma can make you feel ashamed, embarrassed and it can make you lose your confidence. Try to remember that you are not your condition.
Living Well With Epilepsy has launched a new mobile and web app just in time for Purple Day. The app, called Epilepsy Storylines, is designed to help people living with epilepsy as they manage their daily routines and communicate with their caregivers. This app is possible thanks to a partnership with Self Care Catalysts. Epilepsy
Kathryn writes the blog, Kat's Temporal Lobe Diaries. She writes, "I have seizures. It’s simply a part of my life, as much as every other thing.
Audra of His Life With Autism writes about, "the fun and exciting adventures of a child on the Autism Spectrum and a mother who loves him to pieces."
Soo writes the blog Soo's Epilepsy Corner. Soo is living with epilepsy and has dedicated her efforts to raising epilepsy awareness.
A gallery of epilepsy Epilepsy is often an invisible condition. Yet, to those of us who live with it, treating the disorder is anything but invisible. In celebration of Purple Day 2014, Living Well With Epilepsy proudly launches the Picture a Cure for Epilepsy online exhibit. The photos Early in 2014, Living Well With Epilepsy
The team at Living Well With Epilepsy is thrilled to announce that Emily Donoghue, who writes Emily's Perspective, has been shortlisted for a Young Epilepsy Inspirational Shining Star Award.
Living Well With Epilepsy’s Epilepsy Blog Relay™ is an epilepsy awareness movement to designed to maximize collaboration and eliminate stigma.
Living Well With Epilepsy is a comprehensive and trusted source of support, education, research and news for people living with epilepsy and their loved ones.
It's time for the annual epilepsy funding update. Each year I take a look at the funding going toward Epilepsy research and compare it to funding toward other disease states.
Leading epilepsy health information hub and community sharing authentic personal stories.
On Thursday 26th March 2015, I had the incredible opportunity to attend the Young Epilepsy Champion Awards at the London City Hall to represent Living Well With Epilepsy. I write monthly columns for Living Well with Epilepsy and it was an honor to attend the awards on behalf of the founder, Jessica K Smith. Young
Adriana Wears a Painted Purple Ribbon In Loving Memory of Chelsea Hutchison Lost to SUDEP (http://www.chelseahutchisonfoundation.org/)
Seizures have been a part of my life for 15 of my 34 years. Initially medication was able to control them. However at the age of 31 things changed. I had to give up driving & my teaching career. Thanks to brain surgery I have been seizure-free for a year.
There are four amazing shows slated for March and April in honor of Purple Day. Tickets are on sale now. Don't miss this chance to hear some great music.
I took a week off of my job as a behavior analyst, to volunteer an epilepsy camp counselor at Camp Coelho . It changed my life.
There are so many things I could be doing with my life. People like me, who have severe seizures, aren’t able to live life as normally as we would like.
Jon Scheinman and his family are more loving and more energetic than any family I've met in a long time. They have kicked off a national effort called "Lemonade for Livy," to raise funds which will go to the Epilepsy Foundation to support epilepsy research. How it all started Lemonade for Livy started several years
