Snowden (who really does, apparently, have epilepsy) helps an epileptic.

[MADem]

134. YOU were the one who rather eagerly dragged "fear" into the room, not me.

You'd think a health professional would be the last person to do such a thing, but you were the first. Way to set the example and the tone. And then to make an accusation towards me when YOU were doing the ooohing and aahhing is a bit rich, frankly.

I brought up electroshock for the exact same reason I brought up strokes, and more recently CP and seizures, and any other condition that has a "brain insult" component to it. Further, I happen to know someone who had the procedure, as I mentioned. I also know a few people who have had strokes, from mild to severe. Here, let me bring up playing football with no helmet or an unsuitable one, we can throw that in the mix as well. How about getting hit in the head with a baseball? Getting knocked out in the boxing ring? Why is one "scarier" than any other? It's the brain taking the business end of it, no matter what the source--THAT was the point I was making.

ANY time the brain takes a hit--or several--as a consequence of any of these conditions, or something else entirely, it is impacted. Changes happen. Sometimes the changes are slight, other times they are profound. Sometimes they make things better. Sometimes they make things worse. Sometimes, they just make things ... DIFFERENT.

To pretend that "nothing happens" though, is just absurd. Actions have consequences.