Statistic cited at the UIHealth.care website shows that 40 to 50 percent of patients who survive a stroke develops post-depression. Strokes-related effect varies, depending on extent of damage to tissues The impact can be either mild nor stronger, from challenges in finding words to paralysis, weakness, loss of motor control, and disturbance in thinking, feeling, writing, memory, speech and emotional functioning.
Many patients who survive stroke feel fear, anxiety, frustration, anger, sadness, and a sense of grief for their physical and mental losses according to the United States National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Clinical depression may result to a sense of hopelessness that disrupts an individual's ability to function. It appears to be the emotional disorder most commonly experienced by stroke survivors.
Symptoms of clinical depression includes sleep disturbances and a radical change in eating patterns that may lead to sudden weight loss or gain, lethargy, social withdrawal, irritability, fatigue, self-loathing, and suicidal thoughts. Antidepressant can be a treatment of post-stroke depression.
However, antidepressant medications such as Zoloft can cause Zoloft birth defects which is evident in the case of the Hodge family from Ohio filing a Zoloft birth defect lawsuit against Pfizer, the manufacturer, and Cardinal Health, the distributor of Zoloft.
They claimed that their son was born with anencephaly, a neural tube defect that is described as the absence of a large part of the brain and skull. It was only for 18 hours that their child lived and died due to birth defect. The defect is caused when a woman takes Zoloft or another antidepressant in the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI's) class of drugs while pregnant.
The D106 website defines SSRIs as a class of medications used as a treatment of psychological conditions, including depression and anxiety disorders. What is involved in a person's mood is serotonin which is the chemical in the brain.
The low supply of serotonin in their brain make some people feel depressed or experience anxiety attack. The increase of levels of serotonin in the brain and improving the mood of a patient is caused by SSRIs.
In the recent study conducted by the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, researchers strongly believe that both physical and intellectual impairments are significantly improved when a post-stroke depression is successfully treated with an antidepressant medication. However, there can also be an option which is a psychological counseling.
What is being advised is a careful supervision and monitoring of toxicity and the several side effects caused by the prescribed antidepressant drug such as Zoloft which can also cause Zoloft birth defects.
Many patients who survive stroke feel fear, anxiety, frustration, anger, sadness, and a sense of grief for their physical and mental losses according to the United States National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Clinical depression may result to a sense of hopelessness that disrupts an individual's ability to function. It appears to be the emotional disorder most commonly experienced by stroke survivors.
Symptoms of clinical depression includes sleep disturbances and a radical change in eating patterns that may lead to sudden weight loss or gain, lethargy, social withdrawal, irritability, fatigue, self-loathing, and suicidal thoughts. Antidepressant can be a treatment of post-stroke depression.
However, antidepressant medications such as Zoloft can cause Zoloft birth defects which is evident in the case of the Hodge family from Ohio filing a Zoloft birth defect lawsuit against Pfizer, the manufacturer, and Cardinal Health, the distributor of Zoloft.
They claimed that their son was born with anencephaly, a neural tube defect that is described as the absence of a large part of the brain and skull. It was only for 18 hours that their child lived and died due to birth defect. The defect is caused when a woman takes Zoloft or another antidepressant in the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI's) class of drugs while pregnant.
The D106 website defines SSRIs as a class of medications used as a treatment of psychological conditions, including depression and anxiety disorders. What is involved in a person's mood is serotonin which is the chemical in the brain.
The low supply of serotonin in their brain make some people feel depressed or experience anxiety attack. The increase of levels of serotonin in the brain and improving the mood of a patient is caused by SSRIs.
In the recent study conducted by the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, researchers strongly believe that both physical and intellectual impairments are significantly improved when a post-stroke depression is successfully treated with an antidepressant medication. However, there can also be an option which is a psychological counseling.
What is being advised is a careful supervision and monitoring of toxicity and the several side effects caused by the prescribed antidepressant drug such as Zoloft which can also cause Zoloft birth defects.