Do TLE and Geschwind Syndrome Inhibit The Ability to Live a Meaningful Life?
However, people with TLE and Geschwind syndrome have meaning in their lives in other ways. For example, renowned Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky found meaning in his life in writing novels. He achieved success writing classics such as "Crime and Punishment." Surprisingly. Dostoyevsky found a sort of bliss in his psychic seizures. Dostoyevsky once said "happiness unthinkable in the normal state and unimaginable for anyone who hasn’t experienced it… I am in perfect harmony with myself and the entire universe" (Hill). Furthermore, renowned neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran writes that his patients claim they see "the true meaning of the universe" for the first time in their lives and they are comforted through these experiences (Hill).