Deans' stroke musings: Stroke Patients May Face Increased Risk of Suicide

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.

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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.

Friday, December 22, 2017

Stroke Patients May Face Increased Risk of Suicide

What is your doctor doing about this? The proper answer is to get you 100% recovered.
https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20150408/stroke-patients-may-face-increased-risk-of-suicide

Danger is greatest in first two years after the brain attack, Swedish researchers say

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By Robert Preidt
HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, April 8, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Stroke patients are at significantly increased risk of suicide, especially during the first two years following the brain attack, a new Swedish study shows.
Researchers analyzed data from more than 220,000 people in Sweden who suffered a stroke between 2001 and 2012. They found that stroke patients were up to twice as likely to commit suicide as people in the general population, and the risk of attempted suicide was highest in the first two years after a stroke.
Among stroke patients younger than 55, the risk of suicide was five times higher than in the general population. And stroke patients with lower income or education levels were 37 percent more likely to try to take their lives than those with a university education.

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The Umea University researchers also found that stroke patients who lived alone were 72 percent more likely to attempt suicide than those who lived with others.
The risk of suicide among stroke patients born outside of Europe was half that of those born in Europe. This may be due to cultural and religious factors, according to the study published April 8 in the journal Neurology.
Other risk factors linked to increased suicide risk among stroke patients were being male, having severe stroke-related disabilities and depression.
"The study shows the need of both psychological and social support, as well as concrete measures to prevent suicide attempts, in people who have had a stroke and are at high risk of attempted suicide," (Wrong focus you blithering idiots, getting them 100% recovered would obviate the need for this effort. Solve the correct problem, not the secondary problem)study senior author Marie Eriksson said in a university news release.

"The initiatives must also be put in place at an early stage as the risk of attempted suicide is greatest up to two years after a stroke," added Eriksson, a senior lecturer at the department of public health and clinical medicine at Umea.
Study co-author Dr. Eva-Lotta Glader added, "There is a clear risk that signs of mental illness and the risk of suicide attempts among people who have suffered a stroke is underestimated in health care services."

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