Today is epilepsy awareness day, time to reflect and share the journey with you. What I have learned from the last two years: having a safe lifestyle helps, keeping up with healthy routine, set boundaries, communicate and know your limits. The new world we live in added some obstacles from some of us, access to treatment, immunization, anxiety, and people’s lack of knowledge and empathy. I am very lucky to have a treatment that works, over 26 years living with epilepsy, I have been under the three generations of treatments and experienced different side effects and changes. And still, I am in the lucky ones. Some of us don’t have access or cannot afford treatments. Some policies regarding working or learning with epilepsy are discriminating some of us. The stigma surrounding us is heavy but don’t define us or abilities. All of us can make a difference in our field: Communicate, educate, support, and inspire. If you would have asked me 25 years ago his I see future, I would never imagine I would be able to achieve what I did or dreams that size. But thanks to my family, friends and my will to overcome, this is where I am. I don’t define myself sick and never will. A diagnosis cannot define our life, actions have more power. Thank you for reading. J. • • #purpleday #livingwithepilepsy #epilepsyawareness #epilepsywarrior #epilepsypositivity #artistportrait #march2022 #helloyou #balanceisthekey #findyourpeople #thisiswhoiam (at Tel Aviv, Israel) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbkNWlUKxXT/?utm_medium=tumblr
