Psychiatric Comorbidities of Epilepsy: A Review

Ian Curtis, the famous Joy Division band’s vocalist and song writer had a transient personality. He could show different behaviors at different times and with different people. Sometimes he was angry and spiteful, but more often was compliant and kind. He was diagnosed as epileptic when he was 23 years old. His fits varied in frequency and intensity, and anticonvulsant medication, which he took regularly, seemed to make his mood swings more radically. His frenetic style on stage simulated his own real epileptic seizures. Ian Curtis killed himself at his home in Macclesfield, England. He was 24 years old. The history of his life was recently portrayed in the movies “Control”, launched in 2007 [1].