Looking after yourself

How complementary therapies can help to promote your wellbeing and underlying health as well as reduce your stress levels.

A balanced diet from different food groups helps the body and brain to function, helping us to stay healthy. This may help reduce the risk of seizures for some people with epilepsy.

Epilepsy and seizures can affect people in different ways. Support can mean finding understanding, ways to cope, or to feel more in control about living with epilepsy. Here are various ways that you can find support if you need it.

Epilepsy affects everyone differently. Some people with epilepsy may find that problems with their mood or mental health can affect their epilepsy and how it is managed. How you feel may be different and your view of epilepsy may also change over time.

To live full and active lives, and look after our physical and emotional wellbeing, we all need time to rest, relax and exercise. How we spend our leisure time is important and individual to us all, whether or not we have epilepsy.