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Article IndexBY BOB HOLT
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
The fall TV season is about to begin, and networks are promoting their new programming and retuning favorites.
A promo for the Dr. Phil Show’s exclusive interview with Casey Anthony’s parents reads as follows:
"Casey Anthony's never before revealed medical condition may have contributed to Caylee's death..."
Fox News reported that Casey Anthony often suffered 'Gran Mal Seizures.' Cindy Anthony told Dr. Phil McGraw that Casey Anthony’s former fiancé Jesse Grund in September 2008 told Orange County police that he had called 911 after seeing Anthony have a seizure in November 2007.
Casey had reportedly suffered at least two more seizures: one while home on bond in 2008, and another while in jail between 2008 and 2011.
Cindy Anthony called the seizures evidence that Casey had a mental health condition that may have incapacitated her while her daughter was allegedly drowning, and made it difficult for her "to tell fact from fiction.
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Unfortunately, the fact remains that a child is dead.
Such a seizure is generally caused by epilepsy. Chuck Carmen, executive director of the Epilepsy Association of Central Florida, said, according to the Palm Beach Post, "A mental condition with psychogenic seizure is possible, but her actions would be more in the mental disorder area and not epilepsy. I would say it is not plausible to have epilepsy and this scenario be carried out. I would think this is a very far stretch."
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder, NOT a mental disorder.
This is truely an outrage to the epileptic community.
Anyone who thinks that Dr. Phil has grossly erred in his interview with the 'Anthony's' has obviously had little or no training in psychology themselves.
Phil, Cindy and George, this show was all about the money honey
If Caylee was supposingly drowning and Casey couldn't help because she was supposingly having a seizure, well... wouldn't she have drowned too? One would think she would've been in the pool with her baby daughter.
Plus a seizure wouldn't explain why Caylee's death wasn't reported until 31 days later. Nothing but a murder can explain that.
Cindy should've thought it out before using that excuse.
However all that said, it is a great disservice to people who suffer from epilepsy to cast them so negatively. Casey was able to have a driver's license.
Certainly Atty. Baez would have made a case for the "accident that snowballed out of control" to have begun with a grand mal seizure rendering Casey unconscious and with postictal amnesia.
AND if that was the fact, why was she not discouraged even prohibited from taking George's Sunfire?
I wouldn't watch those two b.s. their way through another interview on a bet. If this is supposed to be the Anthonys finally facing up to what their daughter did, I'll take a pass, thank you.
The other issue with this whole "Caylee Law" to make it a crime not to report a missing child; Caylee was never missing! Her so called mother new exactly where she was while wasting everybodies time who was searching for her. There NEVER was a missing child!