Synopsis: Stuart McCallum wrote this book to tell the story about his life battling epilepsy. It starts on a cold day in October of 2003, in Melbourne, Australia, the day of his brain surgery. But before describing the surgery and its challenging aftermath, the story reverts to his upbringing in the far northeast of England. At age seventeen, he began to have his seizure auras: déjà vu sensations, nausea, and headaches. In retrospect, since he describes himself as being "dazed," some of these were probably full complex partial seizures. He saw many doctors, obtaining few answers. Some of the answers he did receive were wrong: for example, the one that declared him to be having psychological episodes and in need of placement in a sanitarium for his mental health. He was put on mind-numbing doses of antidepressant medication. His father rescued him, and Stuart returned to his family home in Australia. Once home, he had his first full convulsion and his diagnostic mystery was solved. Stuart had epilepsy.

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