Also, some people develop severe headaches after a seizure. The tutoring would help if he or she has a learning problem due to brain damage relating to the tumor or the seizures. It's not known whether growth hormone affects seizures, but we do know that some hormones do affect seizures, particularly estrogen and progesterone. Most people with epilepsy are normal mentally. However, depression is very common in people with epilepsy and may even precede the diagnosis of epilepsy.
Many people also become depressed because of their epilepsy.
Other psychiatric disorders may be more common in individuals with epilepsy, but it is often because of an underlying brain disorder which causes both the epilepsy and the mental illness. Epilepsy by itself does not cause mental illness. I have had epilepsy since I was eight years old. I don't have seizures more than one every couple years. I take phenobarb and dialantin.