Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan

I wear a lot of green, but I do identify very strongly as Irish. I mean, I'm from Ireland.

I wear a lot of green, but I do identify very strongly as Irish. I mean, I'm from Ireland.

Yeah, exactly. It's 100% Irish, but I've lived in England for a long time.

Yeah, exactly. It's 100% Irish, but I've lived in England for a long time.

Yeah, exactly. It's 100% Irish, but I've lived in England for a long time.

Yeah, so I run seizure clinics and most people who are referred to me, they've been having a variety of different kind of convulsions or other types of seizures. Usually they come to me with a pre-existing diagnosis of epilepsy. And in the best week or the best year, a fifth of those do not have epilepsy. The seizures they're having have a purely psychological cause.

Yeah, so I run seizure clinics and most people who are referred to me, they've been having a variety of different kind of convulsions or other types of seizures. Usually they come to me with a pre-existing diagnosis of epilepsy. And in the best week or the best year, a fifth of those do not have epilepsy. The seizures they're having have a purely psychological cause.

Yeah, so I run seizure clinics and most people who are referred to me, they've been having a variety of different kind of convulsions or other types of seizures. Usually they come to me with a pre-existing diagnosis of epilepsy. And in the best week or the best year, a fifth of those do not have epilepsy. The seizures they're having have a purely psychological cause.

So their brains are shutting down for a purely psychological reason. And that's something that we as neurologists see all the time. That is so common. As I always explain to patients, our brains shut down in certain overwhelming situations all the time. You know that sort of you're really overloaded with information. You're listening to the radio.

So their brains are shutting down for a purely psychological reason. And that's something that we as neurologists see all the time. That is so common. As I always explain to patients, our brains shut down in certain overwhelming situations all the time. You know that sort of you're really overloaded with information. You're listening to the radio.

So their brains are shutting down for a purely psychological reason. And that's something that we as neurologists see all the time. That is so common. As I always explain to patients, our brains shut down in certain overwhelming situations all the time. You know that sort of you're really overloaded with information. You're listening to the radio.

You're trying to hear a sports result or a particular thing and you miss it like 10 times. And you keep rewinding and rewinding and rewinding and missing the same thing multiple times.

You're trying to hear a sports result or a particular thing and you miss it like 10 times. And you keep rewinding and rewinding and rewinding and missing the same thing multiple times.

You're trying to hear a sports result or a particular thing and you miss it like 10 times. And you keep rewinding and rewinding and rewinding and missing the same thing multiple times.

That's dissociation. That's what our brains do to protect us in moments of being overwhelmed. It's like everything in the body. Some people have too much hair. People have too little hair. Everything goes a bit wrong in some way. And this thing called dissociation, which is designed to just help us to control the overwhelming amount of information in our environments. sometimes goes wrong.

That's dissociation. That's what our brains do to protect us in moments of being overwhelmed. It's like everything in the body. Some people have too much hair. People have too little hair. Everything goes a bit wrong in some way. And this thing called dissociation, which is designed to just help us to control the overwhelming amount of information in our environments. sometimes goes wrong.

That's dissociation. That's what our brains do to protect us in moments of being overwhelmed. It's like everything in the body. Some people have too much hair. People have too little hair. Everything goes a bit wrong in some way. And this thing called dissociation, which is designed to just help us to control the overwhelming amount of information in our environments. sometimes goes wrong.

And when it goes wrong, it can cause people to faint. It can cause people to collapse. It can cause people to have convulsions. And it's so common that this would be part of the bread and butter of a neurologist job.

And when it goes wrong, it can cause people to faint. It can cause people to collapse. It can cause people to have convulsions. And it's so common that this would be part of the bread and butter of a neurologist job.

And when it goes wrong, it can cause people to faint. It can cause people to collapse. It can cause people to have convulsions. And it's so common that this would be part of the bread and butter of a neurologist job.