2006-11-05 03:50:17 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
You certainly can have a successful life, especially now that the condition can be controlled very well.
All these people had epilepsy and went on to have successful lives and careers:
Writers: Lord Byron, Edward Lear, Feodor Dostoevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie, Vachel Lindsay, Truman Capote
Statesmen: Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Peter the Great
Philosophers: Socrates, Pythagoras
Artists: Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo
Composers: Peter Tchaikovsky, Georg Freidrich Handel
2006-11-05 04:00:09 · answer #1 · answered by Michael 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. I have epilepsy, and have found it no hindrance whatsoever to having a successful professional and personal life. It's really not a big deal at all.
2006-11-05 12:07:17 · answer #2 · answered by MarnenLK 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the first time I argued a motion in court I was nervous as hell and kept getting plaintiff and defendant confused. opposing counsel had a petit mal seizure during his oral argument. He just stood there staring for 45 seconds. The judge woke him out of the seizure, by asking him if there was anything else.
He said no and sat down.
In my rebuttal, I stopped being nervous - if can have a seizure and still argue, what should I be nervous about.
Anyway, at that motion, he won. I eventually won the case, but whatever.
He was very inspiring to me that day.
Sadly, I read that he died from complications related to epilepsy.
He was about 40, but lived his life to the fullest.
2006-11-05 14:23:12 · answer #3 · answered by RandallL 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can have success in life if you suffer from a myriad of disease. The best example I can give is Stephen Hawking:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
Hawking communicates by blinking and eye into a computer. He cannot do much more than blink his eyes.
2006-11-05 11:53:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only thing bad about epilepsy besides myths, is that you can't get health insurance for it.
2006-11-05 16:15:45 · answer #5 · answered by kayef57 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Success is how you define it. So definitely. If a guy in a wheel chair can do anything, so can you.
2006-11-05 11:59:19 · answer #6 · answered by Chainsaw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure you can. In fact, there are a number of treatments and prescriptions you can use to control it so it needn't ever interfere with what you do.
2006-11-05 11:59:05 · answer #7 · answered by Tigger 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely
2006-11-05 11:52:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋