Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Learned helplessness

Is your doctor preparing you to be helpless in your stroke recovery? Is she using the comment 'All strokes are different, all stroke recoveries are different'? I can easily see that comment shutting down all hope of ever recovering. Along with no stroke rehab protocols you are basically screwed. I somehow managed to figure out that whatever recovery I wanted I would have to do all the work. This was probably helped by my ex-wife saying to me 'you are on your own'. She was a PT and even though my PTs tried to involve her in helping do some exercises it quickly became obvious that there would be nothing forthcoming there.  I really should thank her for setting the stage for my recovery through my own hard work.
More about that here from the You Are Not So Smart blog;

How we learn and unlearn to be helpless

 

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