The harms of epilepsy are many-fold, with the most significant impact on the quality of life of the patient being cognitive impairment, mood disorders, and adverse reactions to medications. These harms not only affect the person with the condition, but become equally burdensome to those with whom they interact.

Impairment of cognitive function in patients with epilepsy

Cognitive function is reduced to varying degrees in patients with epilepsy compared to normal, including memory loss, lower attention span, and intellectual decline, especially in patients with frontal and temporal lobe epilepsy.

This is because epilepsy itself can lead to alterations in the organization of the brain over a long period of time due to recurrent seizures, which can affect the cognitive functioning of the patient. The primary cause of epilepsy has an adverse effect on brain function.

Regardless of the type of epilepsy, patients have some degree of brain function impairment. Once cognitive decline occurs, it will lead to limited social participation and social adaptation, which greatly affects the quality of life.

Mood disorders in patients with epilepsy

Mood disorders in patients with epilepsy have the highest prevalence of anxiety and depression.

In the central nervous system of epilepsy patients, there is an impairment in the expression of GABA receptors, a neurotransmitter with inhibitory effects, which disrupts the original balance of neuronal excitability and arousal, resulting in mood disorders. In addition, the patient's lack of correct knowledge of the disease, the seizure has a sense of fear, fear of another seizure, in the long run, nervousness and anxiety, poor mood, depression, the production of psychological disorders is not surprising.

Misunderstanding and discrimination by the surrounding people routinely bring heavy psychological burden to the patients, thus seriously reducing their self-knowledge and evaluation, causing them to gradually develop anxiety and depression disorders.

Apart from the harm that recurrent epileptic seizures bring to patients, affecting their social, occupational and schooling situations, the consultation and treatment costs of long-term use of antiepileptic drugs will also bring about a certain financial burden to families, and their related issues of security, education and employment will also become a burden to the family and society.

Therefore, epilepsy is not only a medical issue, but also an important public health and social issue that requires the participation of healthcare professionals, the patients themselves and their families, friends, and coworkers to improve the quality of life of people with epilepsy.

Whether we are children, students, or adults, seizures can cause our lives to be disrupted.

Frequent seizures are physically and mentally damaging to the patient. First of all, the main damage is to the brain, which can lead to the death of nerve cells in the brain. Long-term seizures can affect the cognitive ability of the patient, resulting in a decline in learning ability. Especially for children and students in the learning stage, they may show "weaker" compared to their peers. The gap between them and their peers may also affect their mood and personality, causing psychological stress and mental disorders.

A survey has been conducted on the adverse effects of epileptic seizures on the lives of patients, with driving problems being the most common at 60%, unpredictability of seizures at 55%, learning difficulties at 45%, independence at 40%, social problems, health problems, and work problems at 35% each, and marital and family problems taking up 18% of the total. From these data we can see that the problems encountered by people with epilepsy are not only their own health problems, but also more social problems and even family problems. In addition to this, people with epilepsy are more vulnerable to accidental injuries, especially when the seizures are accompanied by loss of consciousness. It also makes the mortality rate of people with epilepsy 10 times higher than that of normal people.

We need to accept and help epileptic patients with a more tolerant attitude, especially for some children patients, both in education and management, they are more difficult than normal children of the same age, so it is even more necessary for society and parents to be patient and tolerant.

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