About a month ago, I went with my friends and family to check out the new Mall Millenia. As expected, it was crowded with tons of people and the food court is hectic and busy. I went to order a pan of pizza when this little girl behind me fainted and started to have convulsions on the ground. I was shocked as I watched the girl on the ground get treatment from her parents. She was flat on the ground and was twitching as if she was electrocuted. I had found out that she was having epileptic seizures.
             Epilepsy is defined as a disease that causes a person to fall unconscious, often with violent uncontrolled movements of the body. This was the reason she fell to the ground and had seizures. A seizure is a change in behavioral state, which results from abnormal electrical activity in the brain. Seizures can be resulted from many different circumstances. For example, a big hit on the head, or even just a fever. However, when seizures recur without any obvious causes, a person may be considered to have epilepsy. Extreme emotions and conditions can also trigger the seizure for epileptic individuals. For example, if they had a death in the family, this can easily trigger seizures. There are two major common types of seizures. The first type of seizure is a General Seizure. The true general seizure (" grand mal") is characterized by sudden loss of consciousness, usually without warning. At onset, there is usually general stiffening of the body, often with forceful expiration of air and a peculiar sound as this air passes through the throat. If the person having the seizure is standing, they can immediately fall hard on the ground because all skeletal muscles in the body are forcefully contracting at the same time, there may be biting of the tongue, passage of urine, rarely defecation or vomiting, and sometimes a change in color to a purplish-blue due to muscles of respiration being stuck in the tightened state. This phase us...