This is a major reason YOUR DOCTOR IS REQUIRED TO HAVE PROTOCOLS that prevent your depression and anxiety post stroke. 100% recovery would be the best solution but your doctor doesn't have that or is even trying for that.
Post stroke anxiety(20% chance).
Post stroke depression(33% chance).
These Emotions Increase Alzheimer’s Risk
People with these conditions experience Alzheimer’s symptoms up to 7 years earlier.
Both depression and anxiety increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
People who are depressed develop the symptoms of Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia, two years earlier, the latest research finds.
Those with anxiety develop symptoms of Alzheimer’s three years earlier.
Having multiple mental health problems is linked to developing symptoms of the disease even sooner.
Dr Zachary A. Miller, the study’s first author, said:
“More research is needed to understand the impact of psychiatric disorders such as depression and anxiety on the development of Alzheimer’s disease and whether treatment and management of depression and anxiety could help prevent or delay the onset of dementia for people who are susceptible to it.
Certainly this isn’t to say that people with depression and anxiety will necessarily develop Alzheimer’s disease, but people with these conditions might consider discussing ways to promote long-term brain health with their health care providers.”
The study included 1,500 people with Alzheimer’s disease who were asked about their mental health.
The results revealed that the more mental health problems people had, the sooner they began experiencing dementia symptoms.
Three or more psychiatric disorders together was linked to developing symptoms more than 7 years earlier them.
Both depression and anxiety were linked to a history of autoimmune disorders.
Dr Miller said:
“While this association between depression and autoimmune disease, and seizures and anxiety is quite preliminary, we hypothesize that the presentation of depression in some people could possibly reflect a greater burden of neuroinflammation.
The presence of anxiety might indicate a greater degree of neuronal hyperexcitability, where the networks in the brain are overstimulated, potentially opening up new therapeutic targets for dementia prevention.”
Of course there is also the reverse cause and effect, people who have memory loss, are depressed and lonely because their memory loss makes it impossible for them to get satisfaction from LIFE, not being able to get and do well enough to keep, a job, and the resultant loss of a social life is going to make any person depressed and lonely, therefore the memory loss happens first, rather than being the consequence, and therefore to the disappointment of medical personnel, cannot be blamed on the patient's lifestyle, and therefore if the doctor cannot do anything about the progression of the disease, he should do some research and hard work to try to help his patient.
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