... but if he has anxiety issues it opens the door to a whole other story.
How so?
Seizures are not part of a normal anxiety attack, especially ones severe enough to incapacitate him. They do happen as part of anxiety attacks occasionally, but again, we’re talking incredibly severe ones. They also can be caused by anti-anxiety medications. These same medications can have the side effect of intensifying an anxiety episode. As it appears he’s been previously diagnosed with anxiety, it’s not impossible he was on such a medication.
The seizures indicate this was more than just someone losing it. He was having some sort of neurological event. It’s possible (unprescribed) drugs were involved, but it’s very possible something else was at play.
Anxiety drugs can cause rage. They don’t cause people to torture and attempt to murder others. Neither do anxiety attacks.
Yes, they very much do, sadly. Rarely, but again, the attack stopped because he was having seizures severe enough to lose consciousness, and presumably left him in a state so dangerous to his own safety that his battered girlfriend moved him to his bed before fleeing. So this was not a normal event, whatever the cause.
I’m on one such medication. It’s used for migraine prevention. But every month when I visit my neurologist she spends as much time quizzing me on whether I’ve had any bouts of anxiety as she does about my migraines, because while the probability of an severe episode is low, it’s very serious, and we monitor it very closely.
