What is epileptic mental disorder?

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Epileptic mental disorder is a sudden attack of transient brain dysfunction caused by different reasons. There are various forms of seizures. My uncle suffers from this disease. At the beginning of the attack, he always has a dull look, and his hands mechanically and unconsciously swing repeatedly. At first, he thought it was some neurotic manifestations of the elderly. Later, he found something wrong and went to the hospital for examination. He was diagnosed as epileptic mental disorder and metabolic disorder. Also did not hospitalize, is through the medicine and the diet recuperation control condition. After taking medicine for a period of time, the condition has been relatively stable. The details are as follows.

What is epileptic mental disorder?

Before seizures, some patients may show general discomfort, irritability, irritability, depression, bad mood, often picky or complain about others, etc; It can also be manifested as a variety of short-term abnormal experiences, such as various simple to complex illusions, visual deformation, somatosensory illusions and hallucinations, followed by seizures, so it is also known as mental aura.

Epileptic patients with mental disorders can occur before, during and after seizures, but also in the interictal period, showing persistent mental disorders. After generalized tonic clonic seizures, patients often have blurred consciousness and disorientation. Sometimes there are emotional outbursts, such as panic, irritability and violent behavior (agitation, attack, destruction, etc.), which is called post attack hazy state.

A small number of epileptic patients in repeated attacks for many years, in the case of conscious, appear Association disorder, obsessive-compulsive thinking, victimized anxiety and auditory hallucination and other symptoms similar to paranoid schizophrenia. At this time, the patient's seizures have been less or stopped, but the mental symptoms can last for months or years.

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Some epileptic patients have long-term seizures and gradually change their personality, which is characterized by sticky thinking and emotional outburst. The patients are self-centered, argumentative, rigidly attached to trivial matters, difficult in thinking transformation, lack of creativity, pathological redundancy and so on. When the emotion erupts, it is impulsive and aggressive, self injurious or self injurious and can't control itself.