Epilepsy Jo is the woman sitting where I was sitting; from the moment a seizure starts to the moment it ends. It’s Epilepsy Jo who during a seizure picks at her clothes, fiddles with anything within reach, raises her eyebrows, and smacks her lips. It’s Epilepsy Jo who, as a seizure starts, makes a guttural noise like (really terrible) Mongolian throat singing.

Epilepsy seems like a pretty straightforward diagnosis to make. If you have seizures, basically you have epilepsy, right?

Wrong.

It turns out, there are very specific criteria that have been provided by internationally recognized and peer-reviewed collaborations