The Truth About Seizures No One Talks About | Seizures, Sex & Suicidal Ideation
Sickboy
CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
What happens when your brain betrays you with seizures that arrive without warning and leave you depressed for days? Meet Landis, a writer and podcaster who developed epilepsy after brain tumor surgery at age 32. In this illuminating conversation, she breaks down the reality of living with seizures that arrive without warning, including the four-day depression cycle that follows each episode. From creating a post-seizure self-care system complete with personal reminders, to experiencing fascinating "auras" where her brain conjures fictional characters like "Mrs. Bit Binder," Landis shares it all with remarkable honesty and humor. She also discusses how epilepsy affected her dating life (including having a seizure during some hanky panky sexy times!), the service dog who detects her seizures before they happen, and how this condition has simultaneously limited her independence while deepening her appreciation for life's small moments. A powerful reminder of resilience in the face of chronic illness.
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| 0:33.9 | Did you get caught up in any kind of awkward situations where like the seizure kind of made an appearance in the most inopportune moment? |
| 0:42.7 | Yeah, that definitely happened. |
| 0:45.1 | I was dating this guy, and we were over at my place. |
| 0:47.8 | He was making dinner because I don't cook, you know, and got a little distracted, and he was in the middle of the task and um all of a sudden i just |
| 0:57.8 | hear hello are hello like what's going on you know and i'm like i am i'm just like uh what when you |
| 1:05.7 | say in the middle of a task just so that we're all on the same page what task are you talking about |
| 1:09.9 | let's just say he was at risk of hurting his neck. |
| 1:12.4 | Yes, thank you. |
| 1:13.4 | Yes, he was. |
| 1:14.0 | And everybody knows there's only two ways that you can hurt your neck. |
| 1:17.9 | Getting rear-ended or cuddlingus. |
| 1:22.6 | Aren't those different words for the same thing? |
| 1:28.6 | I'm going to start this one off with a question for you, Landis, right off the bat. |
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