 [ Symptoms ] something wrong with my head  hello over the past few days i have just been feeling weird it is not really a headache tho i am prone to them but my head just feels funky like there is a sense of lightheadedness it is hard to describe and i can not seem to focus like if i am reading or watching something it just comes over me also days prior to this i had a very sore neck for a couple days which i often get but that subsided i am really worried i have a brain tumor or something i am always imagining the worst case scenario [ Disease ] alcohol and a number of drugs legal and illegal can increase the risk of seizures although a lot of parents might rather avoid the topic it is important to talk about these issues especially if your child has epilepsy it is true that peer pressure can overwhelm any teenager is good sense but your child may have more restraint than you expect if he understands that drinking and doing drugs raise his risk of seizures he really may avoid those substances remember he really does not want to have seizures either