My friend has epilepsy
If one of your friends, someone in your family, or someone else you know has epilepsy, you might wonder what you can do to help them.
Epilepsy affects everyone differently. The type of seizures and how often they have them varies from person to person. There’s lots of information about epilepsy on our website, but sometimes the best way to find out about someone’s epilepsy is to ask the person themselves.
One very useful thing to know is what to do if someone has a seizure, for example.
Although some people are very open about their epilepsy, other people might prefer not to talk about it. Sometimes all you can do is let the person you care about know that you’re there for them if they do want to talk about their epilepsy.
Young people and epilepsy
- What is epilepsy?
- How do you know if you've got epilepsy? Have I got epilepsy?
- Treatment
- Coming to terms with epilepsy
- My friend has epilepsy
- Going out
- Alcohol
- Street drugs
- Hormones, sex and contraception
- School, college and university
- Careers
- Driving
- Dear Debbie and Dear Danny
- Real Lives
- getAHEAD - Teenage girls with epilepsy
- In Focus
Epilepsy Helpline
- UK freephone 0808 800 5050
- International +44 113 210 8850
- Email: helpline@epilepsy.org.uk
- Txt msg: 07797 805 390 info
Epilepsy Action blog
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