Having your life altered in such a way can be a ….problem. Needing a device in your chest to make sure you stay alive is sure to create lots of negative thoughts. Hope he can deal with it, but it is very tough.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-john-fetterman-checked-hospital-clinical-depression-rcna71087
“ Depression is common after stroke, according to the American Stroke Association. It can result from chemical changes in the brain that make it difficult to feel positive emotions, or a psychological response to the stress of the event.
“Post-stroke depression is very, very common,” said Dr. Lee Schwamm, a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who is not involved with Fetterman’s care. “Estimates are, somewhere up to a third of patients with stroke will have depression at some point after their stroke.”
Lee noted that severe depression requiring hospitalization, as in Fetterman’s case, is much less common.
Fetterman “had a life-threatening stroke and extraordinary treatment and amazing recovery, given where he started from, but has been under extraordinary stress and demands on him from the moment his stroke happened and his recovery has occurred in the scrutiny of the public eye, and those are all recipes for behavioral health disorders,” Lee said.”
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