A blog by Promise Forsuh Twenty-five-year-old Keith Nfore* has suffered the effects of social stigmas connected to epilepsy. This, he tells me, started with his first seizure at the age of 10 when he was left to die because no one present understood what was happening or how to help him. Fearful that he had …

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Examining the myths behind epilepsy takes on a personal meaning for Ashlee Burnett, 20, a Correspondent from Couva in Trinidad. We were introduced to each other when I was 16 years old. Before that, I heard it in a dance hall song, ““Hold mi like yuh really, really, really, really miss me Baby, yuh move …

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