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Content:
Hear about the origins of Purple Day, its purpose, the positivity and how to make a difference! With founder: Cassidy Megan!! We talk about how Purple Day was founded, Cassidy's personal epilepsy diagnosis, school, stigma, the diversities of the epilepsies, SUDEP, varying cultural experiences, media portrayals, credible sources of information, and brilliant clinicians!
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Chapters 📖
00:00 Intro
01:07 Meet Cassidy Megan - founder of Purple Day
02:01 Cassidy's epilepsy diagnosis, school, stigma
05:03 Founding Purple Day: how it happened
07:29 The diversity of the epilepsies & their impacts
10:04 Stigma, independence, careers, memory issues
12:30 Worries about SUDEP
13:47 Different causes of an epilepsy
15:20 Hidden epilepsies
16:00 Varying cultural experiences re the epilepsies - e.g. India, Kenya, Uganda, Canada, and UK
18:45 Our Purple Day activities!
20:33 Media portrayals of the epilepsies
23:12 Auras are focal-aware seizures!
24:28 Share your Purple Day positivity with us!
26:09 Credible sources of epilepsy information!
27:26 Brilliant clinicians for epilepsy diagnoses and care!
28:04 Conclusion and thanks
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