A new report's findings have been strongly suggesting that stroke
patients should be given emotional support after they are discharged
from hospital.It has been found that the patients often are not provided with emotional support from the health and social care services. And the same results in their struggle with the emotional effect that they have to go through.
Stroke survivors, according to the Stroke Association, have to suffer from anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts and many times, from relationship breakdowns. The reason is the emotional effects, which prove devastating just like the physical ones.
Survivors lose their identity and are left mournful for their life, the report said. The Stroke Association said that the patients also felt overwhelmed after being released from hospital. A total of 2,700 people, who were patients of stroke, were surveyed by the charity.
The same pressurized on the fact that they needed psychological as well as emotional help to come out of the trauma of stroke.
"Better recognition of the emotional effects of stroke by health and social care professionals is essential in order to address the need for integrated psychological support for survivors and their families", avowed Cardiff and Vale University Health Board's clinical psychologist, Professor Reg Morris.
