An epileptic seizure can occur anytime, without any sort of warning or any indication.

A perfectly healthy individual can suddenly have an epileptic fit. When an epileptic fit or seizure will occur can never be predicted by a person and this is an established fact that is widely accepted worldwide. For this reason, it really becomes very important for a person suffering from epilepsy to be always accompanied by someone who will efficiently be able to take care of the person suffering from epilepsy in the event of an epileptic fit or seizure. Thus accompaniment is essential for people who suffer from epilepsy, especially for women with epilepsy.

Epilepsy is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder that ails almost half a billion people in the world today. The reason why it is such a dreaded disease is that no proper cure actually exists for epilepsy. The exiting neuro suppressant anti-epileptic drugs that are available in the market in the present are not efficacious enough to prevent an epileptic seizure or fit.  Also these drugs have a depressing effect so continued usage of such drugs is not at all advisable. So what do people with epilepsy do in such a scenario? More importantly, what do women with epilepsy do in such a case? This is where the importance of self-help groups comes in. Self help groups like really important to advise women on how to tackle their epilepsy, the problems associated with epilepsy, and at the same time provides them a platform to share their opinions, views and stories, which can also in turn help an epilepsy advocate.

Sometimes sharing life experiences can be extremely helpful for people who are coming to terms with their epileptic fits or seizures. For all of these reasons, these self help group can go a long way to help women cope with the complexities that are associated with epilepsy and at the same time, enable them to effectively participation an engage that will not only be beneficial for them, but at the same time, useful and informative. Survival skills can be effectively imparted through the medium of such self-help groups.