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southie · 05-31-2007, 07:50 PM

Teft:

I think you're misunderstanding Sue - she is posting
PSEUDO - meaning "Fake, False, Unreal" ... She's not
implying that all pseudo-seizures are fake.

But on the FLIP-SIDE ......

However, we do have a problem with people who DO
"Fake" seizures - real pseudo-seizures for attention,
for example: we have had a couple of women here that
had performed fake (pseudo) seizures right smack out
front of the public so they would dial 911, because she
had this thing for paramedics. But I can't remember what
the other one was doing it for.

Both of them were which the newspapers labeled it
correctly as fake seizures first before implying it as pseudo
by itself without the seizures terminology if my memory
serves me correctly.

My newspaper archives should still have it as I posted it
several times in the EFA Forums (Epilepsy Foundation).
Then I posted another one in Georgia, from Atlanta Metro
area, and I can't remember the other locations - but every
one of them were women, performed in a public spot, in a
crowded area where they could be seen, where the chances
were very high that someone would dial for help.

It is frustrating to the Medics because they have to treat
every one of them as a real thing. There are cases where
some public have misinterpreted the episode where they
"thought" a person who was in need of medical help that was
not receiving it, and instead, was being handcuffed and put in
a Police Car and being hauled away (due to chronic repetitious
episodes of history of faking it all out), so the public outcry had
sparked a need for media exposure.

But many of us only hear about the "first part" of what appeared
to be a "mistreatment", never hearing the "second part", when
the media then informs the public that there was no mistreatment
and especially when the truth is surfaced.

Rare? No, I don't think so, I'd probably state it's "Uncommon".