Depression in Epilepsy

Hello, and welcome to Epi-Center! In today's episode, we’re going to be talking about depression. Last week, we discussed comorbidities, describing the parts of life that seizures don’t explain, but that are just as real and just as serious. In today’s episode, we will dive deeper into specifics, mainly depression and what it looks like for someone with epilepsy.

TRIGGER WARNING: There is brief mention of suicide.

Resources used to research:

• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/epi.13514
• https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/CPJ.0000000000000874
• https://www.thejcn.com/DOIx.php?id=10.3988/jcn.2014.10.3.175
• https://thejcn.com/DOIx.php?id=10.3988/jcn.2021.17.2.176
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21269285/
• https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng217/chapter/9-Psychological-neurobehavioural-cognitive-and-developmental-comorbidities-in-epilepsy
• https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2009-11664-010