If a person is epileptic, can extreme emotions trigger his seizures?`?
“Many people with epilepsy say that sleep deprivation, and increased alcohol consumption lead to an increase in seizure frequency. The reason is that all of these situations change your brain’s excitability. Your brain is very sensitive to these changes, and if there is a big enough change from normal, you may begin to have a seizure. Emotional stress also can lead to seizures. Often you will feel a loss of control. In particular, the kind of emotional stress that leads to most seizures is worry or fear. One study found that in some patients, anxiety—another term for worry and fear—led to hyperventilation (over-breathing) and an increase in abnormal brain activity and seizures. Other emotions that have been linked with stress and seizures are frustration and anger. How can I decrease my chances of having seizures? -Follow your medication schedule very closely. A patient survey showed that the number one reported cause of increased seizures was missed medications. When you don’t take yo
