Healing the Mind After Stroke: The Power of Talking Therapy - AI Podcasts
Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health
Briana Mercola
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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- Depression and anxiety are common but often ignored after stroke, making recovery harder and increasing the risk of long-term decline
- A large NHS study found that talking therapy helped 71% of stroke survivors improve their mental health, with nearly half fully recovering
- Starting therapy within six months of a stroke gives you a much better chance at full recovery and lowers the risk of getting worse
- Melatonin and methylene blue help protect brain cells during a stroke by limiting oxidative damage and preserving energy production
- Ginkgo biloba shows promise for improving cognitive function after stroke when used early, giving your brain more support to rebuild
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| 0:00.0 | If you survived a stroke, do you know the one step that can sharply raise your chance of emotional recovery if you take it within six months? |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to Dr. Mercola's cellular wisdom. Stay informed with quick, easy-to-listen summaries of our latest articles, perfect for when you're on the go. No reading required. |
| 0:17.0 | Subscribe for free at Mercola.com for the latest health insights. |
| 0:27.4 | Hello and welcome to Dr. Mercola's cellular wisdom. I'm Ethan Foster, joined by Alara Sky, and today we're focusing on mental recovery after stroke. Post-stroke challenges go far |
| 0:33.8 | beyond movement or speech. Depression affects roughly one in three survivors, and anxiety |
| 0:39.4 | affects about one in four. These symptoms are common, real, and often missed. When they're |
| 0:44.8 | ignored, your recovery slows and the risk of long-term decline rises. Early attention changes |
| 0:51.0 | the trajectory. New data from England's National Health Service helps clarify what effective support can |
| 0:57.0 | look like. Researchers reviewed records from 7,597 adults who had experienced a stroke |
| 1:04.0 | and later entered the NHS Talking Therapies program for depression and anxiety. The goal was to see how well this commonly used talking therapy serves stroke survivors |
| 1:14.6 | dealing with emotional fallout. |
| 1:16.6 | Everyone in that data set had a documented stroke, |
| 1:19.6 | plus clinically significant depression, anxiety, or both. |
| 1:23.6 | Average age was nearly 58. |
| 1:26.6 | Participants with stroke tended to be male and to carry additional |
| 1:29.8 | health conditions compared to matched controls. Therapy benefited both mood and anxiety, though |
| 1:35.4 | improvements were more pronounced in anxiety. Outcomes were encouraging. About 71% of stroke |
| 1:41.4 | survivors showed a reliable improvement in symptoms during treatment. |
| 1:45.4 | Roughly 49% reached a point considered full recovery, no longer meeting criteria for depression |
| 1:51.7 | or anxiety. |
| 1:53.0 | A smaller group, about 7.3%, experienced reliable deterioration, reminding us results are strong |
| 2:00.7 | overall but not universal. |
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