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Introduction Mental disorders associated with epilepsy, before the onset of seizures, some patients become mentally ill syndrome, clumsiness, repetition, lack of purposeful action.

Cause

People with epilepsy not only endure physical pain, but also endure mental torture. In this paper, a survey of outpatients with epilepsy found that 25% of people have depressive symptoms, which cause or affect epileptic patients with many causes of depression.

(1) One-sided understanding of epilepsy, lack of relevant knowledge, is considered to be incurable disease, long-term medication for patients with epilepsy, due to long-term lingering disease, long-term lingering, loss of confidence in treatment, loss of fun in life, thinking of symptoms during seizures Embarrassing, I feel that it is inferior to see people who are unsatisfactory.

(2) Difficulties in finding employment and finding objects, family disharmony, and interpersonal relationships are tense.

(3) The economic burden is too heavy. Patients seek medical treatment for the root cause and try a variety of methods to bring serious economic burden to the family.

(4) Insufficient attention to psychotherapy, doctors only pay attention to the therapeutic effect of drugs on patients with epilepsy, neglecting social psychological factors and adverse effects on the disease.

(5) Individual psychological quality, general introversion, and more open-minded patients.

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In the past, the mental symptoms of seizures were episodes, and the situation of each episode was basically the same. With varying degrees of disturbance of consciousness, it has important reference value for diagnosis. If the course of disease lasts for a long time and the symptoms are not typical, the EEG should be repeated several times. It is necessary to give anti-epileptic drugs for diagnostic treatment such as mental symptoms. And EEG improved after administration, it can be used as an important basis for diagnosis.

Before seizures, some patients may experience general malaise, irritability, irritability, depression, often picky, or complaining about others. They may often be characterized by various short-lived abnormal experiences, such as simple to complex illusions. Visually deformed, or somatosensory illusions and hallucinations, followed by seizures, is also known as a spiritual aura. Some patients may suddenly have disturbances of consciousness, dull eyes, chewing lips without purpose, unbuttoning buttons, pulling clothes corners or squeaking sounds, clumsy movements, lack of purpose, and symptoms such as mental autosis may also appear separately. .

Differential diagnosis

It is also necessary to distinguish between mental disorders when diagnosis is pre- or post-seizure. After epileptic seizures, there are often fuzzy consciousness disorder, and sometimes emotional outbursts, such as panic irritability and violent behaviors such as agitation, attack, and destruction, are called sputum states. Brainwave examination can present diffuse slowness of the dominant side of the frontal lobe. Waves, or spikes or spikes in the temporal lobe.

In the past, the mental symptoms of seizures were episodes, and the situation of each episode was basically the same. With varying degrees of disturbance of consciousness, it has important reference value for diagnosis. If the course of disease lasts for a long time and the symptoms are not typical, the EEG should be repeated several times. It is necessary to give anti-epileptic drugs for diagnostic treatment such as mental symptoms. And EEG improved after administration, it can be used as an important basis for diagnosis.

Before seizures, some patients may experience general malaise, irritability, irritability, depression, often picky, or complaining about others. They may often be characterized by various short-lived abnormal experiences, such as simple to complex illusions. Visually deformed, or somatosensory illusions and hallucinations, followed by seizures, is also known as a spiritual aura. Some patients may suddenly have disturbances of consciousness, dull eyes, chewing lips without purpose, unbuttoning buttons, pulling clothes corners or squeaking sounds, clumsy movements, lack of purpose, and symptoms such as mental autosis may also appear separately. .

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