The miracle of Dzikr to reduce Depressive Disorder : A two-way blade of Epileptic Seizure

Sulianti, Ambar and Amalia, Annisa Dina (2015) The miracle of Dzikr to reduce Depressive Disorder : A two-way blade of Epileptic Seizure. In: International Conference on Islamic Psychology (ICON PSY), 9-16 Oktober 2015, Yogyakarta.

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Abstract

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder characterized by seizure. An epileptic seizure is a transient symptom of excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. This disease can happen in everyone around the world without boundaries of race and socioeconomic. Epilepsy is one of the most important chronic medical problems due to its manifestation that occur for many years. Thus, the condition of epilepsy can cause prolonged stress which might result in emotional instability to the sufferer. Depressive disorders are the most frequent psychiatric co morbidity in epilepsy but very often remain unrecognized and untreated. The Grand mall epileptic seizure which characterized by abrupt loss of consciousness followed by tonic contraction of the muscles, is one of epileptic type that often impact depressive disorder. A bidirectional relationship between epilepsy and depression that had been studied suggest that depression and epilepsy may share common pathogenic mechanisms and the occurrence of one may facilitate the development of the other and vice versa (Hesdorffer, 2006; Kanner and Balabanov, 2002). Therefore, depressive disorders in people with epilepsy need special attention. This study aimed to understand the effect of Dhikr to reduce depressive disorder as a two-way blade of epileptic seizure. This study is a quasi experimental study using the Single Subject Randomized Time Series Design in a group of two persons. The research subjects are a 26 years old man and 16 years old woman with Grand mall epilepsy and depressive disorder. Each participant serves as his or her own control. Performance prior to intervention is compared to performance during and/or after intervention. To see the effect of Dhikr to reduce depressive disorder, an observation is directed towards depressive disorder signs based on HAM-D-17 assessment. Alpha frequency change on EEG and some memory tests were conducted to observed memory of the subject. The resistance of epilepsy trigger factors was also recorded to see the effect of depressive disorder to epileptic seizure. This study results show reduction in depressive disorder signs including psychological anxiety, feeling of guilt, work and activities in both subjects. Subject who had sleeping disorder shows an improvement. There is an increase memory capability in subject. Both subject have higher resistance of epilepsy trigger factors. This study shows Dhikr reduce depressive disorder in both subjects. Key words: Dhikr, epilepsy, depressive disorder.

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