Family and Friends
If your family member or friend has a seizure disorder, one of the best ways you can help is to learn all you can about this common and treatable condition.
A supportive environment is key to living successfully with epilepsy. The best way to help someone with epilepsy is to offer him or her encouragement, love, understanding, and valuable resources for coping with his or her seizure disorder.
You can find helpful resources to share with people living with epilepsy on the Resources and Tools section of this Web site.
Examples include:
It's important to show a person with epilepsy that he or she is not alone, that he or she has support (whether through resources, friends, family, or support groups), and that he or she can often achieve the same goals for education, career, and family as people without epilepsy.


