How serious is the problem?
* Epilepsy is a chronic disorder that may need life time
treatment in special situations
* Epilepsy is more than seizures, an ongoing epileptogenic
process can irreversible damage the brain →Mental health
problems which may persist even with seizure freedom
* Epilepsy interacts with many aspects of health, can cause
both morphological and functional changes within the
brain as well as cognitive and neuropsychological
alterations