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This is not seizurism! (This is a question)

Hi anon 👋 thank you for the question

A myoclonic seizure presents as a quick, uncontrollable jerk (or cluster of jerks) of the muscle or a muscle group.

So it can be difficult to tell the difference!

Everyone at some point experiences myoclonus (for example hiccups or that jump you feel when you’re about to fall asleep)

These are harmless.

Myoclonic seizures are different and present in Epileptic or nonepileptic patients.

In Epilepsy the cause is due to generalized abnormal electrical discharge and can be a sign of an impending tonic clonic.

In Epileptic patients it’s highly associated with forms of epilepsy such as Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (JME), Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy, Lennox-Gastaut, and Dravet Syndrome.

It can also be associated with FND, PNES, brain tumors, traumatic brain injury, encephalitis, meningitis, metabolic issues.

There are also two types of it:

Positive: Incredibly similar to a muscle spasm

Negative: Essentially results in your muscle(s) relaxing. This can cause you or something you’re holding to drop.

Diagnosis can only be determined by a neurologist who will typically run a video EEG as it is very hard to tell the difference.

Resources:

Cleveland Clinic

John Hopkins

Mayo Clinic

Epilepsy Foundation

also, both of them love jon (in some sense of the word) and want what they believe is best for him, but they also, on some level, need him to be vulnerable and suffering. elias's reasons for this are obvious and practical, but Martin's more nebulous emotional reliance on Jon needing him is no less relevant. I say this all the damn time, but the fundamental paradox of wanting to take care of someone is that they have to be hurt first. and from jon's perspective, both relationships are fundamentally based in trauma--in very, very different ways, to be fair, but his feelings for both of them are inextricable from the things that have happened to him.