What would you say to someone who has just been diagnosed?

First of all I would listen, because when you have a diagnose of epilepsy it's usually a big thunder storm in a blue sky and you don't know where you stand, you have a head full of questions, you don't have answers most of the time or just partial answers where you didn't understand what it meant because it's also a brand new language that you have to learn.

And then, afterwards, we can explain what epilepsy really is, what is supposed to be done, and try to make them understand that they can cope with it and so on. It's just there is again no specific answer, except it's always person-by-person and case-by-case, because everything is so different.

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