No PFM,

What occurred last night was not a sz, imo. Your description sounds more like dissociation to me.

Simple partial sz's typically don't last longer than 30 seconds to a minute or so. A partial seizure can secondarily-generalize, and become tonic-clonic, and stopping that from occurring takes a trained person who is constantly engaging the patient with questions to respond to. Personally, I haven't ever been able to prevent a complex partial sz from occurring. I've only heard one person say that they're able to stop a complex partial after the aura began, and I have spoken with literally at least 100 other people with E.

Doctors are typically very careful in making DID diagnoses vs. seizure disorders. This is because a lot of the symptoms of seizures are the same for dissociation. The major difference between the two illnesses is that untreated (or poorly treated) sz disorders do cause physical brain damage. Dissociation is very disturbing as well, but it leaves no physical damage for cameras and electrodes to pick up on. For this reason, while I have experienced dissociation in my own world many times, I was very surprised to find out that doctors must diagnose a person with either DID or epilepsy. Diagnosing the same person with both disorders cannot be done, and E takes precedence over the DID diagnosis.

Hope that explains it better for you, rather than cause confusion. I kind of tend to get lost as I type and new thoughts take place of the old ones, and I can't remember if I got across what I was trying to post in the first place! Pain in the rump brain of mine. Ugh!