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Well hello everybody. have not written here for a while. Most of you are probably wondering as to why? Well no reason in particular just been busy. The Holidays really took a lot of energy out of me, then I have been looking for work to support my family, no luck so far.

I know I promised you guys a series of articles on the famous people that were ill with Epilepsy, I will get to it one of these days.

Next week I am starting a new hardwood flooring project so I will not be on for the next few weeks. But I am hoping this empty post of promised is better then nothing. So enjoy, I would like to hear some feed back on my post or some ideas as to what to do next with this blog. The reason I am not writing more often is that no one actually reads so there you go. If I feel like some one is reading this stuff let me know and I willmost definitely get my act together.

Another cool thing I am working on for this blog is to get one of my friends to write about his experiences with autism. So we will see how that goes.

Till next time.

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So the first 3 main articles for the epilepsy series are done. Whats next you might ask? Wasn’t it enough with the previous articles. Are we not bored enough?

Who ever thought that shame one you! The previous articles were not boring, they were educational. Even I liked them and I am a hard critic on stuff like this.

So lets talk about what we learned during those articles. The first thing we learned is What is Epilepsy so read that article if you missed it.

Then we went ahead and explored some of the symptoms of epilepsy in this article Epilepsy symptoms another great article, if I do say so myself.

And the last of the 3 article series that we had was the one on first aid for a person having a seizure. You can read about it here First Aid

So thats a little summary for you guys. Now the next series I am planning on writing about the famous people that had epilepsy. I think it would be pretty interesting to find out about the big names that we keep hearing about in school and media. Some very surprising names pop out.

Like Hugo Weaving better known as Mr. Smith from the Matrix trilogy. Another name you might recognize is Vladimir Lenin and one more for you guys Julius Caesar. So those three are just few from a long list, but I will not be making an article on everyone that was ill with epilepsy.

So till next.

Kronick

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So let get to the article of First Aid to a person who has just had an epileptic seizure. Before I actually describe the steps you need to take in case this happens to someone next to you, I would like to point out a few reasons why you need to know this.
he Grand Mal seizure does, so it is better be prepared. The second reason you need to know this is so that in your honest try to help you don’t instead injure the person, I don’t know about you but having a seizure is bad enough without having to wake up to something being broken in my body. And third reason just so that you can help in the time of need, it will make you feel better I promise.First off, the person going into the seizure loses all motor skills. The person how has just had a seizure can not control them self and most likely will fall. Now if you read my previous articles on this I describe that not every type seizure has this kind of effect on people but the Grand Mal seizure has that effect on a person.

by Mark Bukumunhe

So lets get on with it then. Most of the informtaion here is going to come from Epilepsy Foundation. Some of the stuff will be me adding

things that I thought would matter to you.

Here are a few steps of precaution that you should know about:

1. Stay calm and help those around you do the same.

2. Do not try to restrain the person having a seizure from moving, it will only injure them

and you.

3. Time the seizure with your watch, a seizure should not last more then 5 min if it does the paramedics should be contacted.

4. This one is very important keep the area around the person clear of anything hard, heavy or sharp.

5. Loosen ties, collar or anything around the neck that may prevent the person from breathing.

6. Put something soft, like a shirt or a jacket, under the head of the person having the seizure.

7. Turn the person having a seizure onto one side. This should help keep the airway clear. Do not try to force the mouth open with any hard object or with fingers. It is not true that a person having a seizure can swallow his/her tongue. Trying to open their mouth may only injure the person or you.

8. Don’t attempt artificial respiration except in the unlikely event that a person does not start breathing again after the seizure has stopped.

9. Stay with the person until the seizure ends naturally which should be around 3 to 5 min. if that does not happen call 911 and explain the situation.

10. Be friendly and reassuring as consciousness returns. Imagine your self in the situation what would you like to wake up to?

11. Offer to call a taxi, friend or relative to help the person get home if he seems confused or unable to get home by himself.

12. Do not give the person pills, water or food until the person is fully alert.

So there you have it a few simple steps that can prevent a serious injury for a person. Armed with this knowledge you could actually prevent some pretty bad things from happening to a person near you.

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Hey everyone, thanks for reading this totally off topic post. It might not matter to other people that you are doing this out of the goodness of your heart, but it matters to me! So a little updated is in order for my loyal readers.

First things first, I wont be able to post that article on first aid for a person suffering Epilepsy seizure, due to the fact that I will be busy this week with work and a youth conference that I am taking a part in. Work has picked up in the most unexpected time right before the conference starts. And as nature has it all the preparation that I had to accomplish for this conference were laid off till the last moment. That means I will be running around like a chicken with its head cutoff this holiday season. Sad but true.

I have also pulled out a classic game to calm my nerves and want you guys to check it out down here:

This has been my favorite game of all time since 1998, pretty much the time I learned about video games.

There is a pretty cool story about this game,(well at least cool to me) we started it playing it I was in 7th grade in school, and everybody who was anybody played this. Almost the whole school chattered about the strategies they are going to pull of tonight when we have our regular school wide tournament. It was an amazing sense of beloniging. But here is the funny part, our English teacher played with us. It was so unreal for us to see a teacher that is not in a classroom always trying to be the example or sounding smart. We sound our English teacher as a normal dude who played Starcraft and just acted like a normal guy. It was quite the experience for us.

Our English teacher played this game while he was in collage, and once he became a teacher he played with his students to get a better understand of what moves them and how they work. I thought it was an ingenious way of utilizing your Dude skills to be a cool teacher. So there is that.

The holiday season right! What are you guys doing for this Thanksgiving? I would like to hear your plans and destinations. What are you most thankful for?

Other then that not much has changed or happened. I hope to see you all after this week.

Kr0n1ck

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As promised here is the second article on Epilepsy. I decided to write this article about the symptoms of Epilepsy, but before I get any further into this article let recap a little bit on the previous article.

So what did we learn in the first article? First things first, what is epilepsy? We found that epilepsy is a neurological disease. Which by the way does not qualify it as a mental illness, so before everyone starts getting on their warhorse to march down to my castle and siege it, I will admit it myself: The first article in the Category of Mental Illness is not about a Mental Disease.

If you want to know why this disease was picked as the first for this series you will just have to read the first article right here What is this word you say “Epilepsy”? So go ahead give that a read if you are interesting in find out what Epilepsy is.

So neurological disease, what is that? Neurology just means a specialty that deals with nervous system, things like movement and senses.

That should summarize the main point of the first article, so lets move on to the topic of this article “Symptoms”.

So what are the main symptom(s) of Epilepsy? Seizures. These seizures break up into a few categories:

1. Generalized seizures, also known as the grand mal seizure

2. Partial or focal seizures

3.Absence seizures, also known as petite mal seizure

These are the three main categories of the seizures that happen when a person is effected by Epilepsy. Now lets get into detail about each one so that we can better understand them.

Grand mal seizures are the ones that effects all areas of the brain, thus the whole body gets effect when this seizure occurs. If you were to be present at the moment that this happens you might see the following things: the person experiencing such a seizure may cry out or make some sound, stiffen for some seconds, then have rhythmic movements of the arms and legs. Often the rhythmic movements slow before stopping. Eyes are generally open. There have been reports of the person having a grand mal seizure to also start foaming at the mouth. The person may not appear to be breathing. The person is often breathing deeply after an episode. The return to consciousness is gradual and should occur within a few moments. Loss of urine is common. Often people will be confused briefly after a grand mal seizure. Grand mal seizures don’t last very long usually a few minutes. A seizure that lasts longer then three to five minutes is very unusual and a doctor should be contacted.

Partial or focal seizures is when only part of the brain is involved. Depending on the part of the brain having abnormal electrical activity, symptoms may vary. So for example if the part of the brain that is responsible for the movement of your arm is effect then the effect would be a rhythmic movement of your arm. The oblivious the difference between a grand mal and the partial seizure is that in grand mal seizure everything is effect and the partial seizure only the certain parts are effect. The other symptoms of the partial seizure are lip smacking, picking at the clothing and/or strange sensations. Another symptom that should be mentioned is the partial complex seizure. When a person effected by epilepsy looks dazed or confused, this might mean their are having a partial complex seizure. The term complex used by doctors to describe the state between being fully alert and unconscious. This is not as frightening as the grand mal seizure, but it is still uncomfortable for the person experiencing it, I would think. I my self have no experience with epilepsy aside from hearing about it and reading about it. So if any of these sounds a bit insensitive, I am sorry. Lets move on to:

Petite mal seizure are usually very small and sometimes are even unnoticeable. The petite mal seizures include things like staring blankly into the distance, rapid blinking and/or other small movement. The person effect by Epilepsy may experience many of these in a day. Also these seizures are the most common in children.

These are the most common 3 types of seizures, but there are others especially in small children.

In my next post I would like to talk about how to react when you see a person going into a seizure, what to do and what not to do. This a good topic for anybody human, because you never know when this might happen to someone next to you, and it is a good idea to be prepared for anything. A person going into a seizure has no control over him/herself and is absolutely reliant on the people around him/her. It might be you or me, and it will be up to us to guide that person to safety so they do not hurt themselves.

See you guys next time.

KroNick

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It is another pleasant evening of free time for yours truly :) As promised the articles on Epilepsy, here they come one by one. That last bit even rhymed a little bit . So did that, scary. But back to the topic. This is the first article in the mental illness category, and it isn’t even a mental disease. I know, but be patient maybe I will actually write something about the mental illness. All good things come to those who wait, right? But back to the topic of Epilepsy, I’ll try to explain why I picked this  for my first article. I was going to write my first article on Schizophrenia. I decided to research this topic the old classic way, you know by actually going to the library and reading books on the subject and then trying to sound really smart and intelligent. But as luck would have it, all they had was books on Epilepsy. Is this a sign from the blogging gods? I don’t know, you decide, the fact of the matter is that you are getting articles on Epilepsy. So off we go…

I gave great thought to how I was going to  start the series about Epilepsy, and came to the conclusion that you might not even know what it is. So what the heck is Epilepsy?

Here is the definition from Wikipedia:

Epilepsy (from the Ancient Greek ἐπιληψία epilēpsía) is a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures.^[1][2] These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain.^[3] About 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, with almost 90% of these people being in developing countries.^[4] Epilepsy is more likely to occur in young children, or people over the age of 65 years, however it can occur at any time.^[5]Epilepsy is usually controlled, but not cured, with medication, although surgery may be considered in difficult cases. However, over 30% of people with epilepsy do not have seizure control even with the best available medications.^[6][7] Not all epilepsy syndromes are lifelong – some forms are confined to particular stages of childhood. Epilepsy should not be understood as a single disorder, but rather as syndromic with vastly divergent symptoms but all involving episodic abnormal electrical activity in the brain.

Pretty simple, if you know what all those words mean up there. (copy paste ftw) But for those of you who like me have no idea what that means you might need a more simple explanation. So I went ahead and tried to put it in simple terms, the way I understand it.

Epilepsy is basically a malfunction in the electrical system in your brain. Your brain, like any super computer, sends electric pulses (80 per second approximately) to relay information, such as: feelings, emotion, movement and other.

So what happens exactly? An epileptic seizure happens. What that means is: the electrical signals are sent too fast or there are too many sent at the same time. The receiving end can not comprehend it at that speed and amount, so if your system had a circuit breaker it would simply shut down until it was reset, but since we don’t have a circuit breaker what happens is everything gets jammed up. In worst cases the person having an epileptic seizure falls to the ground and starts shaking and twitching involuntarily. This can be quite frightening if you are seeing it for the first time.

This is in very general terms obviously, I could go into great detail of how or why, but I wont, at least not yet. This is only the first article on this topic. I aim to write at least few more articles on this subject, detailing the symptoms and outcomes and maybe even treatment of this disease. How successful I will be, only time will tell.

Till next time yours truly,

KroNick

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Whats new you might ask? Well a lot actually. Like what? For one I have figured out what my next topic will be on this blog. Now don’t hurt your self trying to guess. I will give you some hints

One of the great generals had a neurologica disease

1. Its has to do with seizures

2. It is a neurological disease

3. Napoleon Bonaparte had it.

4. The name starts with E

Did you guess it yet? No? Well alright I’ll give you some time to figure it out. While you work that out I’ll list a few other things that are new on this blog.

I think I mentioned before the theme is new and I am working on getting it just perfect for my readers. I also changed the name of the blog a few times, who would of thought it would be so hard to come up with a name that is both interesting and not boring. I am still deciding what to do with the post that are not related to the main topic. I am leaning towards just leaving them be and move on.

Not very many visitors on this blog yet, but if you are reading this please post a comment or something. Let me know what you guys think.

So did you figure out what the next topic for this blog is going to be? If you have awesome 10 cool points for you! If not don’t stress the answer is “drum roll” ……… EPILEPSY! I know its not exactly super mysterious mental disease (that is if its a mental disease at all) but you maybe surprised on how interesting it turned out to be. Like it or  not our brain can do a lot of things, one of them is making mistakes. But I will get into the topic more a little later this week I hope or maybe the next, as soon as I have enough information for my readers to consume.

Thank you for your time and patieance,

KroNick

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So I have decided what my main theme for this brand spanking new blog is going to be (drum roll……)  Mental Illness.

In my humble opinion Mental Illness is the most fascinating type of illness or disease, by that I mean such illness as Schizophrenia, Hallucinations, Epilepsy and many more. If you have read my About page you would know that I am of Russian origin, the phrase that stands for mental illness in Russian if translated in to English word for word would come out to be Soul Sickness. Now I am not saying that either phrase is more accurate than the other but I do think one completes the other. People that see things that aren’t there, are doing so on a mental level and it is so real to them that they actually react to it in the physical world. Its like dreaming but being wide awake.

There are many reasons why this happens to people. Most of these people have had some sort of trauma in their childhood, but not all. Sometimes these illnesses are caused by things such as loneliness or low self esteem.

And I will try to get into that a little more as we progress with the rest of the articles that I will try to research and post here for you guys.

So many great people have been suffering from these diseases and disorders, and not only survived but became great people of history, such as Isaac Newton, Abraham Lincoln, John Nash among many others, but I will get more detailed on this later. Here is some things that I have personally watched and read and loved:

A Beautiful Mind this is a movie about the great mathematician John Nash, one of my favorite movies of all time.

Sending in the Clowns by Kris Ralston, I bought this book at Kris’s book singing in Federal Way Mall. I found it pretty intense so give this a read a good book.

Secret Window  Johnny Depp Another great movie on something we call split personalities. Its really cheap and its good movie for the price check it out. (plus its got Johnny Depp)

These are just a few of things out there where people tried to depict their understanding of the subject or their opinion on the matter.

The most amazing thing, to me, about these diseases is that they are not physical in reality, but mentally a person cannot tell the difference. Lets take schizophrenia, one of the symptoms of schizophrenia is hallucinations. A person thinks he sees or hears something when in fact he does not. What happens is that one of the sense in human body sends a false signal to the brain which then gets interpreted by the brain and creates a real image or sound for the person. Pretty bizarre stuff.

For example a lot of people would swear they heard someone yelling in the middle of the night, and the scream was so real in fact that they got out of their bed got dressed whet to the place where they heard the scream and found nothing, but not giving up they ask the people around them did they or did they not hear the same thing and are astonished to hear that no one else heard what they heard.

That’s a hallucination of sound. Your hearing sense sends a signal to the brain saying “Hey I hear a scream this is what it sounds like” and the brain in turn says “Whoa that’s intense thanks for letting me know, I need to go over there and check it out.” That’s when you turn your head in the direction of the sound and try to process it.

The scary part comes when you realize that it did not happen and you are just hearing things. What is your next step? What do you do? That’s what I am going to try to research on these topics and hopefully give you guys some advice. Just to be clear I have not had any education in this field, these are just my thoughts and hypothesis, stuff that I came to by sitting countless nights wondering how all of this happens, and why.

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Hey there again! Still nothing new and exciting to point out. Still working on becoming the best blogger in the WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD! Not really but you know things are hard.

Does anyone know when the economy is coming back to what it was before? It seems every time I turn around another small business went bankrupt. Who did this to us? Did we do it our self? I talked to a few of my friends the other day about it and they all blame it on the banks, and the Government. I don’t think we can blame any one institution. With all my heart I do believe we shot ourself in the foot.

Who is to blame for all those credit loans we took out? Sure we can blame the Banks, but really? didn’t WE sign the papers? Now many small banks are dead because of this? Which leads me to believe not even the banks knew what was coming. The stock market took a dive, people are running out of excuses and who to blame, even if we do find that one guilty party so what? That will only give us satisfaction on a mental level but nothing more then that.

What we need to do now is stop looking for the guilty ones and start looking for a way out.

What do you guys think? post a comment.

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