How to diagnosis epileptic seizures with symptoms from similar to psychotic

Abstract

Epilepsy is a brain disorder characterized by a persistent predisposition causing epileptic seizures. Epileptic seizures occur suddenly and can cause a variety of symptoms, including unusual physical symptoms and altered consciousness, movement, and sensation associated with brain localization. However, the general understanding of epileptic seizures is that it results in loss of consciousness and generalized convulsion, and when there are other symptoms, there are many cases in which misdiagnosis as a mental illness/symptom is sometimes made. Cases with a chief complaint like a seizure suspected of being mental illness are introduced to the general hospital psychiatry from other departments. Although these are seemingly difficult differentiations, if the features of epileptic seizures are visible, a differential diagnosis can be made even without an accurate the EEG reading. In this article, we also present actual cases and explain the epileptic seizures that are easily misdiagnosed as mental illness and symptoms of mental illness.