Yes, for some of us. Medications can also give us depression and anxiety from side effects of the drug.

I would say yes.

I think it' possible and is dif per person, I think it does with me a little bit now and then, sometimes a little more, but I handle it my way and am ok with, I do my daily routine of prayer and bible study which makes me comfortable and relaxed what comes about, that is my answer.

I think so

I guess there's a lot of factors, and everyone's situation is different. In my case, I was only officially diagnosed at 62. It's different than a diagnosis when you're young, because it's become all you know, but f from my own perspective, there's been a stark line drawn between the "old me" and the "new me". To directly answer your question, yes, epilepsy contributed to my depression and anxiety. I also have to deal with Complex PTSD (from child abuse and neglect) and intergenerational Bipolar 2 that also contribute... all diagnosed in a six-month span. It's difficult for me and my psychologist to discern the degree of involvement separating the roles of these respective conditions. I have emotional dysregulation because I was told that my cavernous angioma, the presumed focal point of my seizures, is on my RTL and right next to my brain stem, and the RTL plays an important role in processing emotions. Additionally, my seizures' electrical paths seem to have extended to my amygdala. It's been a lot like experiencing the different five stages of grief... (1) denial, (2) anger, (3) bargaining, (4) depression, and (5) acceptance. Add to it the changes and restrictions of everyday activities, no driving, no ladders, no swimming without a companion, drugs, likely for the rest of my life, always a possibility of emergency surgery for a bleed, should I even survive it, the memory, sensory, dexterity, balance and drug side-effect issues. I can drive again, but the thought of bad consequences has taken the joy out of a former pastime and many other things I once enjoyed have really taken a hit or have been taken away forever. Six years now with a psychologist addressing the CPTSD has kept epilepsy on the back burner, now mostly controlled. The rollercoaster of initial poor management and gross overmedication by my first neuro, my "second opinion" doctor, truly a gem, and his plan for subsequent necessary weaning to introduce new and gentler pharmaceuticals, and the deaths of my parents and last abuser, my brother, all within a few years, ultimately burst the dam. I cracked, with the most intense tearful anxiety attacks ever, and depression like never before. They described it as a straw that broke the camel's back... the surfacing of the effects of the full blown CPTSD I'd suppressed my whole life. So far, with them stepping in, it's proven to be manageable with a trauma-trained specialist psychologist and her recommendations to my epileptologist. I will say this: I'd always considered the term "anxiety attack" as nothing much more than a buzzword of the 2000's, coined by lightweights. It's a real thing, believe me, and more intense than anything I've experienced before. It's a relief to have psychotropic meds calm me down in order to address all of this with a psychologist.