Should Epilepsy Have Its Awareness Month Essay

Awareness is used to tell people about a certain cause, teach how to prevent the cause from happening, and help people fund towards the cause. There are many things that are not caused diseases that have awareness months’ such as teen nonviolence dating. I believe that Epilepsy should have its own awareness month because how many people really know what it is, how it affects people, the way it is treated or how much it costs.
Epilepsy is when something in your brain is triggered and when that happens a person falls to the ground and has what is called an epileptic seizure. Some people know when it’s coming but others are less fortunate and can be sitting in their chair and all of a sudden that persons on the floor shaking like a tree that’s going through an earthquake. Afterwards it’s terrifying for that person because he/she might not remember anything before the seizure. The saddest part is a person can’t do anything to help because all a person can do is watch, and make sure that the person having the seizure does not extremely hurt himself/herself. I’ve seen people joke around about …show more content…
Epilepsy is received through multiple ways blood line, triggers such as light sleeping late, change in diet, sometimes the doctors don’t even know why. To get “rid” of epilepsy a person must try multiple types of medication that could have so many effects on a person’s body and until the right medication is found for that person it’s all a leap on chance. Through this entire process a person could go through a lot such as learning to re-live their life, because their a multiple of things people with epilepsy might not be able to do not because they can’t , but because their family is afraid. Things like sports, carrying new born children in their family, going somewhere alone, cooking, driving etc. The family is worried about the person who has epilepsy and the person who has epilepsy entire world is