Adedoyin Oseni the founder of Mary Special Needs Foundation shed some light on epilepsy.
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that is characterized by electrical activity in the brain when the activity starts there’s an unusual behavior with the person which could be non-movement such as staring, seeing a vision, having funny smell or thirst, feeling of anger, anxiety, and depression or with movement such as twitching, lip-smacking, jacking, hallucination amongst others.
She stated that stigmatization and exclusion are so huge in our part of the world because of lack of information and there’s a myth surrounding epilepsy that it’s contagious, people with it are not smart, not intelligent, they cannot get married, they cannot work like any other person and these are all wrong assumption.
She acknowledges that once epilepsy is properly managed it’s not likely to cause huge damage, because when someone has a seizure and he doesn’t get the intervention, care or support that the person needs it might give a fatal result and all it needs is action, all one needs to do is assess the situation, push up the person’s head, time the seizure, look for an identity, never restrain and if there’s a need call the ambulance.
