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Epilepsy is a neurological condition. The neurons fire the wrong way and cause lack of sleep, muscle twitching, zoning "petite mal", or full body shakes "grand mal". Epileptic patients often feel alone and unaccepted due to their condition. It is not that they themselves are alone, it is their psychological inability to accept this fact that they are and in this fight they loose what it is that makes them fully functional. Basically the subconscious wraps the mind in a state of a "child like behavior" in order to preserve its utilities and reject the unacceptable fact that the brain is in fact malfunctioning, just as a stroke patient would if they were to find that they in fact had a stroke.

Alcohol decreases a person's inhibitions and slows down thought processes as well as the processing of incoming visual and auditory information. Alcohol also slows down the heart rate and rate of breath revealing stress for those epileptic patients who can tell that they are soon going to have a seizure. These notable events before a seizure are often referred to as an "aura" or petite mal, which may lead to larger event such as a grand mal . Though alcohol is not highly recommended by doctors due to its side effects eg. organ, brain damage, seizure are often know to cause strokes and are just as potentially lethal.

If the seizures are brought on by crowds, large events, sunlight, flashing lights, fluctuating sound/light frequencies, yelling, arguing, and the epileptic patient knows their triggers, it is highly recommended with doctor approval, that the patient go into hospital in order to localize these triggers, then by themselves if they are capable or if they are willing to go with someone, or with someone that will not trigger these stresses that they get away from them if only for a short while at a time.

With a willing patient, due to the lack of stress as a trigger for the consumption for alcohol, these methods should help to rapidly detox the pacient Remember that alcohol is a physical as well as a mental dependance and that brief detox can cause seizures or even death.

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