Anticipatory anxiety of epileptic seizures: an overlooked dimension linked to trauma history

People with epilepsy (PWE) are more likely to develop psychiatric comorbidities than the general population [1–3]]· Previous studies exploring links between epilepsy and psychiatry have essentially focused on depression and psychosis. Anxiety has been described as the forgotten psychiatric comorbidity in PWE [4]· For a long time, anxiety disorders were considered as the second most frequent psychiatric comorbidity after depression in PWE but anxiety disorders are now recognized as being more prevalent than depression in this population [5–8]·.

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