Some may be arranged with your physician as an outpatient. The outlook for someone with seizures usually depends on the cause of the seizure. Investigation by a physician is usually needed to discover the cause or at least exclude some causes. Most seizures related to medications, drugs, minor head injury, for example, will resolve without specific treatments and do not indicate an ongoing seizure disorder or epilepsy. Most other seizure disorders can be effectively managed with proper medications given under the guidance of your physician or neurologist.
Some seizure disorders are difficult to control despite medications and other therapies.
This situation is rare. A subclass of seizures is known as pseudo-seizures or false seizures. These are not truly seizures at all, but rather represent a condition in which someone fakes realistic-appearing seizures because of an underlying stress or psychological disorder. Prognosis for these is very good and is related entirely to resolving the person's underlying disorder with counseling, not antiseizure medications. For many people with recurrent seizures, one key to prevention is taking prescribed medication on a regular basis.