Posted by Noa on May 3, 2001, at 15:50:58
Anyone here with depression who has a close relative who has epilepsy?
A relative with epilepsy has been beset by an awful depression. The pdoc says it is due to epileptic brain activity. He asked if there is any history of depression in the family. My case was cited. In response, the pdoc asked if I had ever had an EEG done.
Now I am curious about this. A great aunt had epilepsy. Two grandparents (different sides of the family, both genetically unrelated to the great aunt) had depression. I always thought the great aunt and the younger relative's epilepsy were unrelated to each other, that they were more likely due to some sort of birth-related phenomenon (the younger relative's birth was difficult and long, the great aunt was born at the turn of the last century, both home births).
Any thoughts?
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