[Impact of epilepsy on personal and professional life].

IMPACT OF EPILEPSY ON PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIFE. Epilepsy is more than the occurrence of seizures and their direct consequences. Epilepsy is a chronic, often ostracizing disease, which has repercussions in many areas, both personal and professional. Knowing about these repercussions (on schooling, employment, driving) and inform patients about them, so as to offer them solutions adapted to their individual situation, is essential and forms part of the overall management of epilepsy. Numerous resources exist and can be made available to patients, although there are disparities in access to certain resources depending on where they live.