Epilepsy Day: Throwback To When Fatima Sana Shaikh Shared A Post On IG To Spread Awareness About Disease

Fatima Sana Shaikh, the popular Bollywood actor of Dangal fame, posted a mirror selfie last year to spread awareness about epilepsy, a brain disorder that causes “recurring, unprovoked seizures due to disturbed nerve cell activity living in the brain.”

In 2022, she announced the Epilepsy Awareness Challenge with her selfie and urged her viewers to share their story about epilepsy. 

The Instagram Post

 

 

 

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Wearing a stylish plaid jumper, the actor posted a grainy mirror selfie and wrote that she just wanted to post a photo to talk about epilepsy. “Koi relevance nahi hai photo aur topic ka (There is no relation between the photo and the topic.)”

Shaikh started her note by mentioning what epilepsy is and wrote, “Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes recurring, unprovoked seizures due to disturbed nerve cell activity living in the brain.”

She added that one is often diagnosed with the disorder if they have two or more unprovoked seizures and that it may occur as a result of a genetic disorder or a brain injury, but many people never know the cause.

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Five Facts About Epilepsy

She further added five facts about epilepsy that everyone must know.

• One in 26 people will develop epilepsy.

• There are four main types of epilepsy – focal onset, generalised onset, combination, and unknown.

• Estimates are that around 1/3 of the people living with epilepsy have drug-resistant (aka refractory or intractable) epilepsy.

• Anything someone can do when aware, could be done during a seizure with impaired awareness (walking, talking, eating).

• Almost anything can be a seizure trigger for someone.

She concluded her post by sharing the Epilepsy Awareness Challenge 2022, and asked her audience to participate by sharing their own stories of epilepsy.

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Reactions On The Post

Soon after she dropped the post, her colleagues Sanya Malhotra, Rhea Chakraborty, Rajat Barmecha, and many others commented with heart emojis. 

Her fans also appreciated her for spreading awareness about an important issue. A user wrote, “This really is a very beautiful and helpful post. Thanks Fatima for throwing light on epilepsy, that’s a very good and social topic put up by you through this post.” While others, seemingly missing the point of the post, commented on how cool she looked and wrote, “Killer looks.”

Shaikh was last seen in Ludo, and will be featured next in Sam Bahadur, with co-stars Vicky Kaushal and Sanya Malhotra. She will also be seen in Dhak Dhak with Ratna Pathak Shah, Sanjana Sanghi, and Dia Mirza as leading ladies.

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