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Epilepsy Self-Management

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Tony, a 32-year-old male, is pleasant, articulate and handsome. Dressed in his dark suit, white shirt, and conservative tie, he looks like any other business executive. Tony related that he has had seizures since he was 6 years old. Over time, the seizure types and medications have changed. A few years ago, Tony elected to stop taking all his antiepileptic medication because of intolerable side effects. Currently, he has several partial seizures and one or two complex partial seizures per year. When he feels a seizure coming on, he begins to count backward in Italian. He explains that he does not know the Italian language very well, and counting backward forces him to concentrate on the task. He believes that focusing on counting serves as a distraction and prevents him from having a seizure.

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Di Iorio, C. (1997). Epilepsy Self-Management. In: Gochman, D.S. (eds) Handbook of Health Behavior Research II. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1760-7_11

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