This category covers a huge range of seizures including people whose seizures could be sweating, dizziness, nausea, visions, strong sudden sensations of taste or smell, and others. They only last a few seconds during which the person remains fully aware. Complex Partial Seizures People who have these type of seizures practice automatisons. Automatisons are when a person moves around and practices relatively normal actions, such as lip-smacking, wandering, swallowing repeatedly, etc., without conscious. If you're with a person who is having a complex partial seizure you should attempt to steer them so that they don't, for example, wander into traffic, without restraining them.
Epilepsy is old .
This text reflects a belief that seizures are really demons or gods possessing a person. This is a belief that persisted on and off for thousands of years and was still in existence during the Middle Ages. A thousand five hundred years later Hippocrates claimed that epilepsy is a disorder of the mind. However, his explanation wasn't accepted until the 18th and 19th centuries. In the meantime epilepsy was viewed as spiritual, with the example of Christ expelling a demon from a man in whom it was causing seizures.