Incognizant Cause of Misdiagnosed Seizure

Rate of misdiagnosis of epilepsy is high. In a study, 23% patients were found to have been misdiagnosed as epilepsy and 26% patients referred as refractory epilepsy were misdiagnosed. Among children with falls and funny turns, 23% have seizures while 42% patients had syncope (of different causes) and 35% had myriad of causes. 39% children diagnosed to have epilepsy were misdiagnosed. We present a misdiagnosed case of seizure disorder that turned out to have Gratification Disorder, a cause that is not commonly known beyond paediatric department and which confuses neurologists since it mimics epilepsy and movement disorder.