[drdeca]

I don’t understand what point you are making by saying that seizures are an objectively measurable thing.

Are you suggesting “and therefore it can’t be influenced by the specific thoughts a person has”?

I don’t see a reason that something which we (at least so far) can’t objectively measure, but which the patient can report on, couldn’t have an impact on something which we can objectively measure.

I also don’t understand what you are talking about when you mention middle school angst?

It seems like you have the impression that the article is blaming people for having seizures or something like that? But that isn’t at all the impression I get from it.

[tw04]

His entire point seems very narrow minded. We could fill a dictionary full of all the measurable medical issues that stress can cause. We know that things like a smell can trigger memories in the brain completely involuntarily. So to act as if a memory of something that was happening during a previous seizure couldn't be a catalyst for a future one seems naive to me.