Dealing with Epilepsy Diagnosis and Misconceptions

Who has been told in the process of being diagnosed that this is all in your head or you are doing it for attention. When I was being diagnosed with epilepsy the one doctor told me that it's all in my head. However EEG said otherwise. They tried diagnosing me with PNES or psychogenic non epileptic seizures. That didn't fly. My seizures weren't produced by stress or mental problems. They were not provoked on purpose. They were caused by a head injury from a car accident in December of 2002. I have complex partial seizures and once in a while I have an atonic seizure. The kind where you just drop. Why would any doctor accuse their patients of being a faker with seizures?! Who'd do this for attention? I have dealt with them for almost 20 years now. Been on as many as six meds at one time. Been in the EMU twice. Have a VNS. Take three meds. I still have seizures despite taking medications. So they are refractory seizures or medically resistant epilepsy. I have lost friends and family from the epilepsy. People judge me all the time. Until they have walked a mile in my shoes they have no right to judge me. I wasn't a candidate for temporal lobectomy. The testing for that was a waste. I can't work or drive. No one who doesn't have epilepsy is really aware of how much it can steal from you. I have lost a lot of what I used to be able to do.