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Stroke Can Effect Your Personality Quakertown

Some survivors experience apathy and don't seem to care about anything. "People often mistake this for depression because survivors are content to sit and stare at the wall all day," says Dr. Spradlin. "The best response is to get them active and moving. Give them a choice of what to do or where to go, but make it clear they have to choose to do something, they can't just lie in bed."

Other survivors experience neglect, an attentional disorder in which the patient does not pay attention to things on one side of the body. Neglect can run the gamut from someone who doesn't recognize paralyzed limbs as their own to those who ignore food on one side of the plate or words on one side of the page. Neglect occurs most often in right-hemisphere strokes and thus results in inattention to the left side.

Of course, driving is extremely dangerous for anyone with this disorder. Read More

Source: American Stroke Assoc ®

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