News and blogs

Explore Olivia's personal journey with epilepsy, focusing on her strategies for maintaining wellbeing and managing the challenges she faces.

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• Living with epilepsy
• Mental health and wellbeing

Olivia explains how her epilepsy and seizures affect her social life, going out with friends and what her top tips are to look after yourself, and still have a good time!

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• Social Life

Read how Lauren navigates social life with epilepsy, sharing her experiences, challenges, and tips for staying connected while managing her condition.

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• Social Life

Annie is a key member of our Youth Voice Network. In her blog, she discusses her experience with education and her exam top tips.

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• Education & Play

Anoushka's blog shares how life has been at school and college, with epilepsy. Anoushka's top tips might also give you some pointers to help at school!

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• Education & Play

Olivia writes about her experience with epilepsy at school and university.

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• Education & Play

This year’s theme was ‘More Than Seizures’ and we know that epilepsy is more than just a seizure, it can affect young people in so many other ways, so we joined with other epilepsy charities across the UK to raise awareness of these challenges.

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Susanna was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 3, and then high-functioning autism 13 years later. Her blog discusses how both of these diagnoses have impacted her life growing up.

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• Living with epilepsy
• Diagnosis and treatment

Olivia was diagnosed with epilepsy aged 11, and experiences uncontrolled seizures. She shares the challenges she has faced and her top tips in her blog.

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• Living with epilepsy
• Diagnosis and treatment

Read Annie's personal journey of prioritising her mental and physical wellbeing while living with epilepsy, offering insights and advice for others.

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