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What my Stroke Patients Have Taught me About Stress
Due to the fact that I work directly with Stroke patients in a therapeutic setting, I need to keep the details as vague as possible. All of us have the right to anonymity and privacy.
But that’s fine, as the details are not what matter here. It’s the life lessons these brave souls have shown me that I wanted to share with you today.
Stroke might be something that you think of happening to older people. My Grandmother had a thrombolytic Stroke in her 80s. So until my recent experiences, my Grandmother was my first thought upon hearing the term ‘Stroke’.
But as it turns out, Stroke patients can be any age at all. In recent years the average age has begun to creep lower. It seems that youth doesn’t mean immunity.
Why might this be? From what I’m learning from my patients, I suspect stress to be a contributing factor.
Some simple facts
Before I go off on a tangent about my own beliefs and patients’ stories that I’ve heard, we should look at the data.
According to The Stroke Association, somebody in the UK has a Stroke every 5 minutes. A staggering 100,000 people have strokes each…
