Waking one morning at a friend’s home, Sophie Hillyard found herself struggling with textbook symptoms of a crashing hangover: a pounding headache and waves of nausea.
Sophie Hillyard, 28, (pictured)| suffered a dissociative or non-epileptic seizure (NES). The condition, unrelated to epilepsy, causes seizures in about 13,500 people a year in the UK.