stress?

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Hello! My name is Linda and I live in Sweden. Just now a friend of mine called and told me her daughter, 15 years, fainted in school on thursday last week. She was unconscious for three hours and had muscle spasm. The ambulance came and when she woke up at the hospital she didn´t remember anything. The doctors at the hospital said it must be psycological. The same thing happened in March earlier this year and since then doctors have taken loads of tests, eeg, ekg and so on. Now when they can´t find what it is they say it must be stress. The girl is at good fysical health, mental health as well. She doesn´t drink alcohol or take drugs. No eatingdisorders or anything I can think of. She is a quite happy girl. Doctors say it isn´t epilesy. After the first attack she slept about 20 hours a day for weeks. She´s been sleeping like that since thursday when she had the second attack. Can this really be caused by stress? Grateful for answer! Linda

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Jeg vet ikke om du leser norsk, men svarer deg uansett på norsk i første omgang. Slike langvarige og kraftige krampeanfall er relativt ofte ikke forårsaket av epilepsi, men hva de egentlig skyldes er det vel ikke noen fullstendig enighet om. Stress kan være en årsak, men det finnes også andre.

Her er en link som sier noe om non-epileptic seizures : http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/Non-Epileptic-Attack-Disorder-(NEAD).htm

Hvis du googler "pseudo epilepsy" eller NEAD vil du kunne finne mange gode linker.