QuickStart Guides for the Newly Diagnosed

If you have just developed epilepsy, you may have to make some adjustments in your life, but in general the chances are excellent that you will be able to live, work, and function in society just like everyone else.

These QuickStart Guides are designed to help you learn more about epilepsy -- from living with it, to types of treatment.

Epilepsy is what you have, not what you are.

While there may be many challenges to life with epilepsy, and many frustrations, too, for most people it is possible to go weeks, months, even years without seizures. When seizures are more frequent, the difficulties may be greater. Even so, most people with epilepsy want to live active, fulfilling lives just like everybody else. They see epilepsy as a part of their lives, and that's how they want others to see it as well.

• About Your Treatment
• Living With Epilepsy