National Epilepsy Week

This week marks National Epilepsy Week, an annual UK campaign dedicated to raising awareness of epilepsy. Throughout the week, we’ll be sharing personal stories from people living with epilepsy across our social media channels, highlighting how unique each individual’s experience of the condition can be.

We have started National Epilepsy Week by collaborating on a social media post with other epilepsy charities to show the strength of the epilepsy community. Epilepsy is as unique as the person who has the condition and this week we are highlighting personal stories as well as the work of our incredible team of researchers and clinicians. 

When you are first diagnosed with epilepsy it can feel very isolating and overwhelming. We spoke to Madeline about her experience of being diagnosed at the age of 13 and despite trying many different combinations of medication, and brain surgery, she still has uncontrolled seizures. You can read Madeline's story here where despite the many barriers, challenges, hospital stays and side effects, she is remarkably resilient: Madeline's story

We’ll also be sharing a series of videos of our research and medical services teams, exploring the vital work they do to support residents at the Chalfont Centre, and how their research is helping to improve diagnosis and develop more personalised care. And we are delighted to share Rudy's story, written by his dad, Rick, that truly shows the care and dedication of the team at the Gowers Centre.