Epileptic patients often develop depression, low self-esteem, irritability and other emotions due to the long-term impact of epileptic seizures and the strange eyes of people around them. 1, depression: this is a pathogenic factor in itself, once suffering from epilepsy, especially temporal lobe epilepsy, the characteristics of depression is more obvious, increased psychological burden, mood, over time will form a more serious mental depression, causing life pain to patients, but also affect the effectiveness of treatment. 2, low self-esteem: because seizures regardless of time, place and occasion, people living around the patient intentionally or unintentionally cause some psychological harm to the patient, social discrimination more serious mental burden to the patient, over time, the patient himself formed a pathological psychology, more serious inferiority complex, and even despair, suicide. 3, loneliness: epileptic patients often feel that because they have epilepsy, work, life, learning when the aspects are subject to certain restrictions, can not be the same as normal people, so it is easy to fall into loneliness, unwilling to join everyone, unwilling to participate in group activities, like to stay alone. Especially in adolescent patients, the sense of loneliness is stronger. 4. Pessimism: Due to the presence of several characteristics mentioned above, patients with epilepsy suffer from great psychological trauma, which is a cause of pessimism. Epilepsy is a chronic disease that requires long-term treatment, which can easily cause serious damage to the patient’s body and mind, shake the patient’s confidence in overcoming the disease, and even make the patient desperate. The purpose of psychotherapy for epilepsy patients: one is to reduce and eliminate the psychological barriers secondary to epilepsy; the second is to treat the seizures themselves. Common treatment methods include supportive psychotherapy, behavioral therapy, family therapy and group psychotherapy.