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Family And Loved Ones: Their Role In The Road To Stroke Recovery

When a person suffers an ischemic stroke, the brain is damaged. An ischemic stroke is a condition where the brain doesn’t get enough oxygen because of a blockage (called a blood clot) in the blood vessel, When the brain doesn’t get the oxygen it needs, permanent damage can occur.

The stroke victim can suffer from paralysis, speech defects, and vision problems. Ischemic strokes can also impair the person’s ability to be cognitive as well as affect one’s moods and emotions.

Changes in Personality Caused by a Stroke
When a person suffers a stroke, a part of the brain that affects mood and behavior is impacted. It can cause several changes in the personality of a stroke victim. Some of the changes a person who suffered from a stroke may be the following:

  • Depressed – After a stroke, a significant change in the behavioral personality of a stroke victim is depression. This is caused by biochemical changes that happened in the brain cause by the stroke.  A depressed stroke victim often feels hopeless, are fatigued, sleep poorly and do not eat well.
  • Apathetic – A person after having a stroke can be apathetic. Apathy is when a person is indifferent and unmindful of the surroundings and is content with not doing anything.
  • Impulsive – Another personality change a stroke victim may experience is impulsiveness. This is when the person does not think ahead and often does something too quickly, on impulse. The normal brain pattern of deciding whether to do or not to do something is impaired and the resulting behavior is impulsiveness.

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Posted on November 30, 2011

Post-stroke Seizures

Photo from the Internet Stroke Center

According to the website of the Internet Stroke Center, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) latest statistics estimated that every year there are about 15 million people who had experienced a stroke. It is also estimated that of these large number of stroke victims, at least 5 million succumb to their stroke and that at least another 5 million people are left with permanent disability.

A stroke victim can be left with one or several disabilities depending on the gravity inflicted by their stroke such as problems with mobility, speech, logic and others can arise after a person experiences a stroke.  These disabilities target certain parts of the body – the face, the upper extremities, the lower extremities, etc.  However, what is not seen by other people is that the stroke has a lasting imprint on the brain of the stroke victim.

Aside from the noticeable disabilities identified another potential problem patients and caregivers should be wary about are seizures and epileptic attacks after their stroke. Among the elderly, experiencing a previous stroke is the usual cause of experiencing a seizure attack in the future.

What are seizures?
The brain works in a systematic way. It receives data from our five senses (sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste), collects these data, analyzes them and then sends out corresponding “reactions” back to our five senses.  However, during a seizure, the electrical activity in the brain becomes disorganized which causes a person’s body to spasm. Instead of giving out the correct message (reactions) to specific body parts, the brain is now causing the body to spasm.

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Posted on November 20, 2011

Support groups can help recovery faster

It has been said many times in the past that “No man is an island.” It is a saying that reflects real life where a person would eventually need someone to survive the daily grind of life.

Because humans are such social beings, they feel the need to be loved and accepted. Abraham Maslow had illustrated this need in his Hierarchy of Needs. It falls under the third category which is love and belongingness.

All humans aspire to be a part of a family, a group, a clique, etc. The group that the individual aims to be a part of eventually helps mold that individual’s personality which then makes the person whole. An individual can experience his true worth if he or she is a part of a larger group.

Members of a group usually have one thing in common. A common bloodline, a shared history, a common goal, having the same aspirations, these are just some of the things which make people to band together.

If an able bodied person needs this kind of ‘attention’ then it follows that people with physical disabilities would also require such need. Stroke survivors are not exempted from such need.

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Posted on September 21, 2011