Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, September 5, 2013

The antidote : happiness for people who can't stand positive thinking / Oliver Burkeman

This kind of follows the idea that, If you are told not to think of a white bear for the next minute, you will absolutely fail at that task. Telling yourself to be happy falls into the same conundrum,you think of all the ways you aren't happy and the result is that you fail at being happy.  This is why all those motivational talks you go to never work.
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Read it and see if this counterintuitive approach makes sense to you.
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5 comments:

  1. Elizabeth, John, Jack, and LukeSeptember 5, 2013 at 5:05 PM

    I don't see a link...and I think the reason positive thinking "doesn't work for some people" is not because it doesn't work....it's because dome people are to stubborn/rigid to allow themselves to change their thoughts, and/or they are not motivated to actively practice the tools that will eventually retrain their brains to think in a different way. It doesn't just spontaneously occur. You need to work on it, practice at first. Write lists, keep notes, post things around the house. Its the same as changing any habit....how bad do you want it....what are u willing to change to get there?? I think in stroke recovery this should be first? And people that are not working on this changeable component are missing the boat. Don't waste ur time repeating a million exercises that will probably not work until there is an attitude shift. Change the attitude then do the exercises....it's part of the magic.. the future in brain recovery....mark my words!!

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  2. AmySeptember 5, 2013 at 7:12 PM

    So should I tell myself to be miserable??

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    1. oc1deanSeptember 6, 2013 at 9:02 AM

      You'll have to read the book to find out the prescriptions for a better life.Stoicism the philosophy, Buddhism are possibilities. Its not black and white

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