Epilepsy is not terrible for the human body

  There are some phenomena in human disease that are worth remembering: diabetics can have a sweet feeling if they only look at the literal meaning of “elevated blood sugar,” but the damage that high blood sugar can do to the body’s organs is unsettling. Epilepsy is another extreme example: when you are confronted with a patient who is having a grand mal seizure, it can be very frightening. In fact, epilepsy does little direct damage to the body’s organs, but the side effects of antiepileptic drugs are the main culprit.  The indirect damage of epilepsy mainly includes two aspects: first, the suddenness of seizures may lead to traumatic injuries; second, seizures, especially in public, can bring psychological stress to patients and can cause psychological disorders and impairment of cognitive function, the latter mainly manifesting as memory loss, slow thinking, and reduced attention span.  Among the various forms of seizures, spastic seizures (or limb jerking seizures), especially secondary generalized seizures and complex partial seizures, are more significantly harmful to the patient.