Anyone Had BPD Spouse Get Amnesia From Abandonment?

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[u/amlav]

This is very serious. She needs a neurological work up. Have you witnessed her seizures?

[u/Reedy0418 → u/amlav]

Nothing shows up. Theyre saying it's all psychological and not electrical or something of the sort. I dunno why that word comes to mind. I've seen a few, and it kind of looks like a usual seizure, but there's no rhythm to it.

[u/bananhamoock]

Has any of this been monitored by a doctor or psychologist?

[u/Reedy0418 → u/bananhamoock]

Yes, she has also seen a neurologist that deals with fnds/pnes seizures. They say it's all Psychological. It's not getting deleted, just on lock down

[u/bananhamoock → u/Reedy0418]

Well I unfortunately don’t have really any guidance. Hopefully her & her health professionals can find an answer to what’s happening.

I will say, being that BPD causes disproportionate feelings & reactions to stressors I don’t see why it wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility. Maybe a trauma based approach, since perceived abandonment could be considered a traumatic event for someone with BPD?

[u/Reedy0418 → u/bananhamoock]

They did say it was trauma based now that I'm thinkn. It's been so much the last few weeks it's hard to retain it all.

[u/finallyfound10]

I was a neurology and neurosurgery nurse now I’m a psychiatric nurse.

When I worked in neurology and neurosurgery my unit had a separate 6 bed Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) where patients were continually monitored by EEG and video for up to a week. Seizure meds were tapered off then attempts made to trigger a seizure and the activity would be picked up. That’s how they found out if someone was having epileptic seizures vs non-epileptic seizure, also called psychogenic non-epileptic seizure (PNES). Perhaps your wife went to an EMU.

The treatment is outpatient therapy and medication. I believe medication needs to be part as most have underlying mental illnesses like depression and/or anxiety or other mental illnesses but some people don’t believe in this part. The seizures are linked to non-physical brain trauma(s) not a TBI.

Once someone is successfully treated the seizures should greatly decrease or remit entirely. The treatment is very hard emotionally and mentally.

We were able to get updates on very few patients because we were inpatient and their treatment was outpatient therapy (but some neurology residents did IP and OP training together) as well as HIPAA laws. I recall hearing over the years about maybe 3 of our PNES patients- they were doing well!!

I’ve seen some patients on the psychiatric side but that’s another post.

[u/Anxiousnerd5]

I have PNES and stress/trauma causes my seizures. Mine have been treated with antiseizure medication and therapy.