Deans' stroke musings: Social factors related to untreated post stroke depression

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 25, 2025

Social factors related to untreated post stroke depression

Are you that blitheringly stupid that you can't see you prevent depression by HAVING EXACT 100% RECOVERY PROTOCOLS! Oh you ARE that stupid! How long before you're fired?

Social factors related to untreated post stroke depression

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2025.09.007 Get rights and content

Introduction

Social drivers of mental healthcare (SDoMH), including age, race and ethnicity, insurance, employment, and education, have been linked to the risk of mental illness and the likelihood of receiving treatment [[1], [2], [3]]. Among stroke survivors, untreated depression compounds neurologic disability and impairs functional recovery [[4], [5], [6]]. Even still, older research reveals more than half of stroke survivors with depression do not receive medication or counseling [[7], [8], [9], [10]]. In this study, we utilize a recent nationally representative survey to determine which SDoMH are associated with post-stroke depression treatment receipt.