Comments on: Depression High Among People with Epilepsy

By: Holistic Healing

Holistic Healing — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:35:19 +0000

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By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 16 May 2009 10:22:25 +0000

My name is Peter. I am 40 yrs. old. I discovered I had epilepsy when I was 12. It has devastated myself and my familys life. I dropped out of school in the 8th grade and had to homeschool myself because of seizures. I also developed alopecia due to the stress. I live with these problems in great fear. The one and only thing that keeps me here is my two beautiful girls. They mean the world to me

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:49:09 +0000

I have a sister who is so beautiful, well accomplished but who suffers from epilepsy. I know how her whole life has been a continuous struggle. Till date getting a date is a big problem. She has never been in a relationship longer than 2 months and it is so sad. She gets very depressed and is in fact in therapy for depression.

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:47:33 +0000

It’s easy to sympathize and empathize with them. When one lives with something which is not only crippling but also very embarassing as epilepsy it is not surprising that depression would be high. A lot of teens who have this receive no encouragement from peers to live a normal life. When you are treated like a disease you tend to fade away.

By: Starla

Starla — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:25:10 +0000

It is great to see when connections are finally made and things like this are put together to help so many others who have been brought so far down by this. Jill says it perfectly when she says that it is bad enough to have just one of these afflictions, epilepsy or depression, but to suffer with both at the same time has to be something akin to a bad nightmare. It seems like there has always been a focus on treating one disease at a time with little care for the other ways that these medical conditions could be adversely affecting your life. Doctors and researchers now seem a little more open to seeing what other possibilities may arise and are working to find better ways to treat these things together.

By: jill

jill — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:22:14 +0000

I can’t imagine having to deal with this day in and day out. Depression is bad enough but to have both?

By: Marianne

Marianne — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:42:08 +0000

I once dated a guy who developed epilepsy after being in a bad car wreck. It totally changed his life and not for the better.

By: Fallon

Fallon — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:58:18 +0000

Epilepsy can have such a negative impact upon the lives of those who have it but do not have the seizures under control. It does not surprise me at all that these might be patients who experience higher than normal levels of depresison. Think about how debilitating this disease could be on your everyday life if you are not on the right medications to get the seizures under control and how you may go through life being afraid of what the next seizure may bring and if you or someone else will be hurt as a result. That would be a very heavy load to carry around with you all of the time.

By: Edith

Edith — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:35:54 +0000

I’m sure epilepsy is a very depressing illness when you have to deal with it. The article really opened my eyes that many things in life causes depression.

By: martha

martha — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:04:20 +0000

I have never thought of epilepsy and depression going together as well. It does make sense tho when you have a person who has the seizures and the problems associated with epilepsy to develop depression.

By: Grayson

Grayson — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:02:59 +0000

My boss has epilepsy and is also being treated for depression and has been for as long as I have known her now. Her seizures are very much under control as are the depressive symptoms but I have never given any thought that the two may somehow be interrelated.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:20:28 +0000

That is a very big percentage of depression among epilepsy. With the seizures and blackouts epilepsy has on these individuals, I’m sure it causes a lot of depression. This study was in 200 and 2001, I wonder if this percentage has increased?