Posted by SD on May 8, 2000, at 16:20:14
In reply to Re: Social Phobia-Epilepsy Connection?, posted by SLS on May 1, 2000, at 9:55:49
... Paroxysmal anxiety and panic attacks occur as episodes representing an ictal event. Chronic states of depression or anxiety occur interictally.
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> Do you experience brief intense episodes or are your anxiety/phobic states more chronic?Chronic. (Since pretty much forever.) Your classic generalized social phobia (social anxiety disorder).
BTW what do ictal and interictal mean?
> * From your citation:
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> "The patients with epilepsy showed significantly higher scores on the basic coping styles MBHI Inhibition style and MBHI Sensitivity style, and lower scores on the MBHI Sociability and the MBHI Confidence"
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> Q: What does a higher score versus a lower score indicate?
>The names of the 'coping styles' are pretty much self-descriptive and I guess could be called 'personality traits' or whatever. Higher score --> more of a fit with that 'style'. So the results reported would be what you'd expect from people with generalized social phobia or chronic severe shyness.
Peace and health,
SD
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