Epilepsy is a neurological disorder. An epileptic person is someone who is generally prone to recurrent unprovoked seizures, due to extreme and abnormal neuronal brain function. Statistically speaking, there are reportedly about fifty million people in the world with epilepsy. Moreover, almost ninety percent of them have been observed to be from developing countries.

With the modern treatment and medication, epilepsy is something that can usually be controlled with proper medication, but unfortunately there is no cure for this. Sometimes in extreme cases, surgery becomes an option that is looked into. Epilepsy should not be looked upon as a singular disease; in fact it would be wrong to call it a disease – it is more of a culmination of a lot of different symptoms emerging out of abnormal electrical activity inside a person’s brain.

An important reason why epilepsy should not be looked upon as a disease is because a large part of epilepsy syndromes are not a lifelong recurrence. As a matter of fact, some forms of epilepsy occur only in particular phases of a child’s life and is then never known to resurface ever again. It is just that about thirty percent of epileptic people are not able to attain control over their seizures even with the best of medication.

Epilepsy Advocate, a leading organization in combating epilepsy among women, has come forward with and information and media related to epileptic disorders among women. It is a great step because they not only publish information about this condition but also have video documents showing specific women with epilepsy talking about their lives and experiences.

It is said that man fears most what they don’t understand, and this logic applies to the treatment epileptic people get from their surroundings. There is a lot of social stigma and discrimination associated with epilepsy as people don’t fully well understand the nature of this condition. Thus the work form Epilepsy advocate and other organizations help a lot in making people more aware about the need to be caring, understanding and empathetic to those with this problem especially women with epilepsy.