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Stroke Often Changes Personality

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1. Although depression is the most common emotional change after stroke, other psychological or mental changes can make the survivor feel upset or frustrated.
2. Communication in all its forms often changes after a stroke.
3. Neglect , a disorder in which the stroke survivor does not pay attention to or notice things on one side of the body.
4. The difference between apathy and depression is that with apathy the person seems not to have emotions or to care about anything.
5. Whether apathetic or depressed, the best response is to let your survivor stay home and be inactive most of the time.
6. Some survivors lose the ability to read people, for instance, they can’t understand the emotional meaning of a message or understand body language.
7. Cognitive deficits are changes in thinking, such as having trouble solving problems.
8. Of all the areas of life that stroke affects, its impact on the survivor’s personality is the easiest for family and friends to understand and get used to.
9. Cognitive rehabilitation helps survivors learn to think in sequence again or provides new behavior to overcome this problem
10. Driving is extremely dangerous for strove survivors with neglect symptom.