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What does a person with epilepsy look like, according to the beliefs of Poles? Myths still alive...

MedExpress Team

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Published Sept. 12, 2024 07:36

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We talk to Alicia Lisowska, president of the Epi-Bohater Foundation, about the results of a study on the stigmatization of patients with central nervous system disorders.

You are the president of the foundation, a mother, a professionally active person, but you also suffer from epilepsy, "which is not visible from you at all." Do you often encounter such a statement?

Yes, just as soon as I heard: "what you can't see from you," I thought: aha, this is the moment. I hear this often, especially from people I didn't know before, when I tell them about my illness. At such a moment I always laugh: then what should I look like, should I just write it on myself somewhere, wear a T-shirt that says "suffers from epilepsy"? What does a perso...

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