Introduction With 65 million people suffering from it worldwide, epilepsy is a growing health problem. One in twenty-six people in the United States will be diagnosed with epilepsy at some point in their lives. Epilepsy affects people of all ages and origins (TEF, 2013). Sixty percent of cases are of unknown cause. Seizures affect different parts of the brain and result from different factors such as genetic, symptomatic or idiopathic. Seizures can be expressed as partial (involved in one side of the brain) or generalized (involved in both sides of the brain), and as absent (the person stares for a few seconds), atonic (the person falls to the ground with loss of consciousness), tonic (the patient becomes very rigid and may or may not lose consciousness and falls to the ground), myoclonic (repetitive jerking movements) and tonic-clonic (a series of muscle stiffenings and relaxations and the patient loses consciousness and the patient loses consciousness). patient falls to the ground). Patients may show signs of more than one seizure type occurring in different parts of the brain (Solomon et. al., 2012). The condition is called epilepsy when seizures are recurrent without any definitive trigger such as fever (Burns et. al., 2009). Disease Process Seizures are the result of a misfiring of cortical neurons in the brain that can cause episodes of involuntary contraction of voluntary neurons. muscles (Burns et al., 2009). This sudden and transient disruption of brain function can also influence involuntary motor, sensory, autonomic, or psychic events, in any combination, with or without loss of consciousness (Hay et. al., 2011). The diagnosis is based on a good history. The patient may or may not remember the incident and bystanders may only remember...... middle of paper ......e, RR (2009). The family model of human becoming. Nursing Quarterly. 22 (4). 305-309. Seaburn, D. and Erba, G. (2003). The family experience of “sudden health”: the case of intractable epilepsy. Family Process, 42(4), 453-467. Solomon, N. and McHale, K. (2012). An overview of epilepsy in children and young people. Nursing Children & Young People, 24(6), 28-35. Soria, C., Callu, D., Viguier, D., El Sabbagh, S., Bulteau, C., Laroussinie, F. and Dellatolas, G. (2008). Parental report on cognitive difficulties, quality of life and rehabilitation of children with epilepsy or treated for a brain tumor. Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 11(4), 268-275. The Epilepsy Foundation. (2013). Epilepsy. Retrieved from http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/index.cfm.Zamani, G., Mehdizadeh, M. and Sadeghi, P. (2012). Suicide attempt among young people with epilepsy. Iran