Olanza, I have a lot of experience -- both personal and professional -- with people who have both simple partial seizures and partial complex seizures.

In partial seizures, the changed electrical activity doesn't impact the whole brain, just a portion or a partial part of the brain. The symptoms depend on which part of the brain is being stimulated by wayward electrical impulses. People having partial seizures usually do not convulse and, in fact, other people may not be aware you're having a seizure. They may think you're suddenly acting a little odd, but unless they know what to look for, they don't think it's a seizure.

Every one of the symptoms you listed -- every single one -- is a known symptom of simple and complex partial seizures. In simple seizures, the person may have an altered state of consciousness and they remain aware of the odd activity that's happening. In complex seizures, the person may not remember what happened and they may suffer a blackout period after the seizure is over in which they look as if they're all there and functioning, but they may not regain normal consciousness for several hours. That would explain losing time and not knowing how you got to a particular place.

Partial seizures can cause hallucinations of any of the sense -- taste, smell, sight, sound, touch and movement. You mentioned visual hallucinations -- colors and objects moving toward you. Seeing ghosts. Many people with partial seizures see ghostly images or faces.

However, you didn't mention auditory hallucinations, like voices. Most schizophrenic hallucinations are auditory in nature. Very rarely are they visual. Seizures can cause a roaring in the ears like a freight train, a tinkling of bells, high pitched tones and even musical notes. But not usually voices giving commands.

Arms and legs moving suddenly are also classic motor seizure activity. The feeling of falling, with the stomach feeling as if it's rising and falling, and of your entire body being pressed or crushed or sucked into the earth are regularly reported.

Partial seizures also cause what neurologists call "mood storms." A sudden change of mood sweeps over the person -- it can be anything. Anxiety, rage, terror, deep sorrow, joy, sex. Religious feelings bordering on frenzy are common. These mood storms are caused by simple partial seizures, but they come on and change so unpredictably that people suffering seizure-triggered mood swings are often misdiagnosed as bi-polar.

When a seizure is over, a person usually loses all energy (feeling unplugged.) They may go into a deep sleep lasting several hours. This is called the post-ictal phase.

You've had a brain aneurysm. That would be enough to cause a person to start experiencing simple and partial complex seizures.

They can be hard to diagnose because the person does not convulse. They may act strange at unpredictable times, but they don't fit the standard idea of seizures. It's hard for doctors to diagnose because by the time the person gets to the doctor, the seizure is usually over.

You explained your symptoms quite well. It's common for people to feel much emotional turmoil when talking about their symptoms and they report much of what they experience cannot be put into words. This can cause doctors who have no special training in seizure disorders to think of the seizure patient as difficult or mentally ill, when the patient is actually displaying classic symptoms of what used to be called temporal lobe epilepsy and is now called simple and complex partial seizures.

You probably need to see a neurologist. If the meds you're taking are supposed to treat both seizures and mental disorders, you may need a different anti-convulsant or more than one seizure medication. Finding a combo of meds to bring the seizures under control can be trial and error and somewhat difficult. But very worth the effort.

All of your symptoms are similar to the symptoms of simple and partial complex seizures. They are not particular common to schizophrenia. And, of course, it's also possible to have both a seizure disorder and a mental health issue at the same time. Many people do.

I hope you will ask your primary care provider or psychiatrist or therapist to arrange a referral to a neurologist. You may need an EEG or other brain wave test and an MRI or CT scan. Because you've had an aneurysm it just makes sense to look for a neurological cause of your symptoms before assuming it's all psychiatric in nature.

You described your symptoms well. If you took that list of symptoms, plus information about the brain aneurysm, a neurologist would know how to proceed to properly diagnose and treat you.

I wish you the best and hope you will come back and tell us how this goes for you.