What are the misconceptions about epilepsy among people with epilepsy?

  I believe many people understand that many people with epilepsy have seizures that cause many problems for patients and their families because they cannot predict when and where the seizures will occur. Due to the social prejudice and discrimination that exists, most patients will try to hide their condition and worry every day about whether they will have a seizure in public, which causes a lot of physical and psychological damage to the patient.  This, combined with the fear of the physical and psychological side effects of long-term medication, causes patients to become psychologically overburdened. This situation will soon lead to pessimism and loss of confidence in learning and life, especially in patients with intractable epilepsy, and even to anorexia. A few patients with epilepsy will go to the extreme, as the seizures are not controlled within a short period of time, the patient loses confidence in the treatment and also has doubts about the treatment level of the doctor, and non-compliance with medical advice becomes a common phenomenon. The mood of healing often drives patients to fall for traveling doctors and con artists. Patients and their families often listen to the advertisements of secret recipes and experimental prescriptions, and frequently travel around.  In addition, a significant number of family members have misconceptions about epilepsy. Most epilepsy starts in childhood, and young and ignorant children are not aware of the disease itself, but the parents’ intentional or unintentional attitude has a great impact on the mentality of the child. Parents often have complex reactions to the diagnosis of epilepsy, shame, anxiety, frustration, and powerlessness, which lead to a depressing atmosphere of mystery and despair in the family.  At the same time parents are overly protective of the affected child and are afraid to let the child do anything independently, causing the child to grow up overly dependent on parents and lose the ability to live independently. Some parents go from one extreme to another, losing confidence in the child’s future and adopting an attitude of giving up, neither giving active treatment to the child nor educating and guiding the child in all aspects, making the child sink deeper and deeper into the disease and poor psychological state, making treatment more difficult.