Epilepsy and psychiatric disorders at government mental hospital Peshawar

ABSTRACT

Seventeen patients attending Epilepsy Clinic at Government Mental Hospital Peshawar were retrospectively studied for the type of epilepsy and its relationship to mental illness. The overwhelming majority were young, unemployed males who were brought by their relatives for treatment. All had generalized seizure disorder [tonic/clonic type] and twelve [70%] had an associated schizophrenic illness. The psychosis invariably came on later than the epilepsy. None p had clinical evidence of complex partial seizures. Almost half of patients were on multiple anti-convulsants and had poor drug compliance