Epilepsy? Who me?
Do I look any different from the rest of the crowd?
Epilepsy can affect anyone in the family - even the pets too!
Epilepsy needs understanding
We all swim in the same sea - ervery fish in the shoal is different.
If you think that epilepsy stands in the way of achievement...
...look again.
The poster shows the picture 'Bank of the Oise at Auvers', which Vincent van Gogh painted in July 1890, shortly before his death. In the last two years of his life, van Gogh suffered repeated epileptic seizures.
"My independence depends on
how you look at me." Claude, epileptic
Pierre Guillermit, France
Epilepsie - so what?
Seppo Sarkkula, Finland
Jan Gluich Hansen, Denmark
Joanna Ritchie, Scotland
These 4 colour posters are the prize-winners of a competition held by the International Bureau For Epilepsy in 1994. The theme of the competition was "Epilepsy and Independence".