Many people with epilepsy not only suffer from the disease after the illness, but also face tremendous psychological stress. Due to the lack of understanding and fear of epilepsy, people with epilepsy are likely to be ostracized by some fields and groups, especially in social interactions, studies and work, which can lead to low self-esteem and a sense of despair. Parents of children with epilepsy also often worry about whether their children’s future will no longer be bright because of epilepsy after they learn of it. In fact, epilepsy is not a curse from God. Even with epilepsy, people with epilepsy can still enjoy a normal life and have the same possibility of success as most people. The incidence of epilepsy is high, and there have been many great people in history who have suffered from epilepsy, but this did not stop them from climbing the ladder of life and gaining the applause of the crowd. Let’s take a look at some of the lesser-known greats with epilepsy. Van Gogh, the genius painter who left us many wonderful works, nowadays, almost no one does not know him and his works. The sunflowers he created, the starry nights have touched countless people, and casually taking out one of his paintings can fetch a jaw-dropping price. Few people know that such a genius was also an epileptic. We do not know how his seizures affected his work, but one thing we can say for sure is that they did not completely cut off his chances of success. Napoleon, the founder of the first French Empire and Emperor of France in the nineteenth century, has attracted more attention than anyone else in the history of France. He possessed genius military and political talents, led his armies across Europe, Africa and North America, and was invincible wherever he went, and his enemies were terrified of him, and he is still regarded as a rare genius military man in history. In his legendary life, he left behind the Napoleonic Code, which has had a profound impact on the legislation of many countries today. Few people believe that this hero on the war horse also suffered from epilepsy. Nowadays, if you search for Napoleon anywhere, you will rarely see traces of him and epilepsy, and it is assumed that such a hero must have been almost perfect physically and intellectually. But the evidence suggests that Napoleon did suffer from epilepsy, only the epilepsy doesn’t seem to have done much damage. Dostoevsky, a famous Russian writer of the late nineteenth century, is known as the “progenitor of modernist literature”, and people say that “Dostoevsky represents the depth of Russian literature”, and his masterpiece “Crime and Punishment” has long been classified as a world masterpiece. Later studies have speculated that the delicate and subtle expression of psychology in his works may be closely related to his epilepsy. His epileptic seizures caused him to have frequent hallucinations, melancholy, and sensitivity, which also helped him in a sense to be more subtle and unique in his creative work. He wrote the novel “The Idiot”, in which an epileptic is the main character, mirroring the author’s own epileptic seizures and signaling the immense creativity contained in epileptic patients. Over the centuries, many other epileptics have achieved great success in this field, such as Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prize, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, the poet Byron, Dickens, Mohammed, the founder of Islam, and many others. In today’s society, people with epilepsy are found among the elite in all walks of life. Even if you have epilepsy, you still have the opportunity to succeed through hard work, which requires the patient and his or her family to be strong and optimistic together.