Have you ever witnessed someone having a seizure? The first time I saw a convulsion, I was very young, and the experience left a lasting impression. A distant relative collapsed suddenly, his body jerking uncontrollably, while my mother remained calm and handled the situation with remarkable composure. Later, I realized that our community misunderstood his condition—many believed he was cursed. Now, as a medical student, I see how much misinformation surrounds epilepsy. Like mental illness, it carries stigma that isolates those affected.
While talking to a group of men recently, we asked them why they never go for checkup early and one of them said that they were just afraid that the doctor might say that they have cancer. In this man’s experience, he did not believe that cancer is treatable at all
PCOS is a syndrome which means that it is a combination of many symptoms. The three main features of PCOS are; cysts in the ovary, high levels of male sex hormones (androgens) and irregular or skipped periods (anovulation).
I found out that we (especially in my country) have some interesting, unconventional methods of dealing with bed-wetting. Unfortunately, most of them are based on superstition and the belief that
bed-wetting cannot be a medical condition.
