Do any catters out there have experience with epilepsy?

My wife has just been diagnosed as having a mild form, but in the culture and country we live even this is seen as something shameful as it is considered a mental illness.

We spoke about it and the doctor we saw was sympathetic and I thought that my wife had understood and we could then look to how we go through this together.

But last night after I returned home from a session I found her collapsed on the bed and in a very serious condition. She had drunk a whole bottle of very strong spirit. She never normally touches alchohol. Luckily I got her to a hospital and the doctors and nurses were able to bring her back.

I need to understand and get her to understand that this can be lived with. Local phsychiatric help is not an option as it is almost non existant in this country.