“…Increases in Stress Levels and the Problem of Treatment Adherence. Epilepsy patients not infrequently have comorbid pathologies, including psychiatric [20,[22][23][24], and they have a greater tendency to form suicidal ideations and a greater frequency of suicide attempts [25]. In the Russian population, the number of epilepsy patients with depression, affective-anxiety, and other disorders is very high, though as shown by our observations, a majority of these patients avoid seeing a psychiatrist [22].…”