Written by admin on 2011-07-12T16:41:09+0000">July 12, 2011 – 4:41 pm
What happens if your confidence is wrong and your child has another seizure? You and your physician will explore why that seizure occurred. Did your child forget her medicine? Not enough sleep? Does she have an infection? Does the medication need adjusting? You may find a good reason. If you don’t, you will have to begin your power of positive thinking all over again.However, you’ll be right about her not having a seizure far more often than you’ll be wrong. And, since the consequences of being wrong are not within your control, this framework may help you and your child achieve a positive approach to living.Another approach involves the realization that medical risks of a recurrent seizure are minimal and that, as in the past, your child will quickly recover from the seizure to resume his normal activities. You may even be able to accept the social consequences and not be overly concerned that you or your child will experience embarrassment. It may be easier for your child to do this if she has a good understanding of seizures and if you have been able to educate her school and her friends that although having a seizure is unpleasant and interrupts activities for a short while, these activities usually can be resumed without any real harm.Different people use different methods of coping, and some may need to use more than one. Your physicians and other advisors may recommend that you try a particular approach, but you and your child will have to find your own way to minimize anxiety and to cope.*190\208\*
