In Climate: Controlled, Jackie Valentine dismantles the outdated frameworks surrounding epilepsy and reassembles them with precision, history, and hard-earned insight. This is not a patient's memoir-it is a reckoning with centuries of superstition, scientific oversight, and structural neglect. From ancient diagnoses of demonic possession to misunderstood cardiac episodes misclassified as neurological disorders, this book follows the tangled path of epilepsy across time and culture.
Drawing from her own rare form of seizure disorder-rooted in cardiac dysfunction, not the brain-Valentine explores why epilepsy remains one of the most gaslit conditions in modern medicine. With clarity and courage, she exposes how climate change, endocrine disruption, and systemic fragmentation are contributing to an epidemic of misunderstood neurological collapse. This book is part science, part history, part personal investigation-an urgent call to rethink what we label, medicate, and ignore.
Climate: Controlled is not just about epilepsy. It's about the failure to listen.