Like many people, I struggled with denial after being diagnosed with a long-term/chronic condition. For years, I was told: “you need to learn to accept epilepsy”. So I focused on destroying denial. I thought if I could just stop pretending everything was okay, stop wishing epilepsy would disappear, stop pretending that I’d never have a seizure again... Then maybe I’d finally have accepted it. But the more I pushed it away, the less achievable acceptance became. It’s only rece