“Counseling is not for everyone. Some don’t need it, and some don’t want it. If a person or a family doesn’t want it, then it will be of no use to them. All you can do is leave the door open for them to come back later. Another possibility is to try to connect a [...]
“I’ve certainly seen good counseling done by nurses, psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, and doubtless many others. But I’ve also seen well-trained counselors who may be excellent with other types of problems but who feel uncomfortable working with kids or with adults who have epilepsy. To be a good epilepsy counselor, a deep knowledge about epilepsy [...]
The human brain contains about 100 000 million nerve cells, each of which is connected to many others—perhaps as many as 50 000 others. The brain is the organ of our thinking and of our memory. It integrates information from the outside world and so allows us to perceive objects and events around us. It [...]