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Do people with seizures have a mental illness?

April 26, 2017mental illness people seizures

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Do people with seizures have a mental illness?

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Epilepsy is not a mental illness. It is a temporary change in the electrical function of an otherwise normal brain. Some people with mental illness also have seizures, and some people with seizures also have mental illness, but the two conditions are not the same.