Picture a Cure: Gearing up for Epilepsy Stigma Awareness Month

If you were busy increasing epilepsy awareness on Purple Day, you may have missed Picture a Cure: an online exhibit when it was featured on the home page. The exhibit is now featured prominently in the main navigation and the sidebar for easy access.

You will find photos from Living Well With Epilepsy readers brave enough to share what one day of epilepsy looks like in their world. Photos were submitted from all around the globe including: Uganda, Australia, England and throughout the USA.

Continue to submit photos

The Picture a Cure exhibit will be featured on the home page again on June 1 to kick off Epilepsy Stigma Awareness Month. So Living Well With Epilepsy is continuing to accept photos.

As before, I’d like these images to illustrate the diversity and quantity of medicine/food/vitamins/electricity it takes each of us, every day to treat epilepsy. I’d also like to show what epilepsy stigma looks like to you.

A few ideas

Your picture may be:

A suspended license
A job rejection letter
An email breakup
Makeup to cover scars
Where you hide your meds
Anything you do to try to feel “normal”

To participate please use the form below to send in your photos along with a caption or note.

Submit your pic

Be sure your picture:

Is a large or high resolution picture (from your phone is fine)
Includes a caption
Includes the type of seizures you have
Include country
If US include the state

You DON’T have to:

Show your face
Give your name
Provide personal details

A few suggestions:

Send photos in focus
Send big or high resolution pics
Send as many pics as you want

Deadline to Submit: May 16

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Thank you in advance for your submission.

Jessica K. Smith Founder and CEO; Executive Director

Jessica Keenan Smith is a patient advocate and epilepsy community leader with more than 15 years of experience. As Founder and CEO of Living Well With Epilepsy and Executive Director of ASENT she bridges the gap between the scientific and patient communities, with a particular focus on the needs of the epilepsies. Jessica Keenan Smith is Founder and CEO of Living Well With Epilepsy, an award winning online resource for people affected by epilepsy to share stories and access in-depth information on the disease. Since 2009, Living Well With Epilepsy (https://livingwellwithepilepsy.com) has been featured in Forbes, Wired, NBC, NPR and the cover story of Epilepsy Advocate Magazine and has partnered with companies such as UCB, Lundbeck, Sunovion, Eisai, and more. Ms. Smith is also the Executive Director of the American Society for Experimental Neurotherapeutics (ASENT) (https://asent.org), an organization that brings together leaders from industry, academia, government and advocacy who are engaged in bringing drugs and devices to market across all neurologic disease states. In this role she is responsible for leading a successful scientific journal and annual scientific conference with speakers from all over the world.

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