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Anxiety and depression symptoms were assessed through the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS-A and HADS-D), the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II). Quality of life was determined using the QOLIE-10. Patients were divided into three groups: patients with epilepsy (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 395), psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 56), and combined (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 33). A univariate and multivariate regression analysis was performed for variables associated with quality of life.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> Of 493 patients, 45.0% had structural etiology, and considering epilepsy classification, 43.6% were of temporal lobe origin. In addition, 32.45% of patients had a previous psychiatric history, 49.9% of patients had depressive symptoms in BDI, and 30.9% according to HADS-D; 56.42 and 52.63% of patients presented pathological anxiety scores in STAI-T and STAI-S, respectively; and 44.78% according to HADS-A. PNES and combined groups revealed a higher incidence of pathologic BDI scores (64.29 and 78.79%, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001) as well as pathologic HADS-A scores (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.001). Anxiety and depression pathologic results are more prevalent in females, HADS-A (females = 50.7%, males = 36.8%; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.0027) and BDI &amp;gt; 13 (females = 56.6%, males = 41.0%; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.0006). QOLIE-10 showed that 71% of the patients had their quality of life affected with significantly higher scores in the combined group than in the epilepsy and PNES groups (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.0015).<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusions:<\/jats:bold> Subjective anxiety, depression, and reduced quality of life are highly prevalent in patients with refractory epilepsy. These symptoms are more evident when PNES are associated with epilepsy and more severe among female patients. Most of the cases were not previously diagnosed. 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