How can you tell if a person is faking a seizure?

Answer 1

Lots of people fake seizures as well as other medical conditions. The most common reasons:
1. Personal gain - like getting out of jail and put into a hospital, getting out of work, etc. This is known in psychiatric terms as ficticious disorder.

2. Mental disorder - they actually believe they are having a seizure, they believe they are having the symptoms and their body accordingly caries out the physical manifestations. This happens sometimes in post -traumatic states - like if a soldier is forced to kill someone he will lose feeling in his trigger finger after that. It's the bodies way of protecting the mind. This is known is psychiatric terms as somatiform disorder.

ANYWAY, there are LOTs of different types of seizures and they don't necessarily have to involve jerking motions - in fact some seizures consist of only blank stares : they are called absance seizures. The only definative way to tell if someone is faking is to do an electroencephalogram (EEG) WHILE they are having a seizure. that is the ONLY 100% way. Hypothetically, you could try eliciting pain and see if there is a response, if not they are likely having a seizure, but this is NOT diagnostic!

Good Luck
speak with a neurologist (specialist in seizures) for more info

Answer 2

I think it would be very hard to fake a real seizure. My uncle has them all the time and it is scary to watch and hard to sit there knowing we can't do anything for him until it is over. At first he gets a blank look in his eyes like he is not really there and then his whole body stats to convulse very hard and crazy, sometimes he is able to yell out in pain because his muscles gets so tight and hard. I think you would be able to tell from the face if it is fake or not my uncle gets a face that is pure hell and pain and all we can do if move everything so he doesn't hurt himself thrashing around afterwards he is so tired sometimes he can sleep for over 18 hours. I don't understand why someone would fake something so awful.

Answer 3

give him antiseizure drug
if he gets an overdose after the minimum dose he's a big motherfaker