Identity Theft: Rediscovering Ourselves After Stroke

Identity Theft: Rediscovering Ourselves After Stroke
ISBN-10
144949630X
ISBN-13
9781449496302
Series
Identity Theft
Category
Cerebrovascular disease
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2019-04-16
Authors
Debra E. Meyerson, Danny Zuckerman

Description

In 2010, Debra Meyerson, a Stanford University professor, suffered a severe stroke in which she lost all speech and was paralyzed on her right side. Identity Theft centres on Debra's experience: her stroke, her extraordinary efforts to recover, and her journey to redefine herself. She draws on her skills as a social scientist and conversations with dozens of fellow survivors-, family members, friends, colleagues, therapists, and doctors to paint a new picture of the emotional journey through the identity-based challenges born from stroke and other accidents and illnesses that rob people of important capabilities. She shares amazing personal stories and uses them to illustrate lessons we can all learn from. She addresses these important questions: Who are you after a stroke? How do I define myself in the face of more limited abilities? How do you grieve the loss of you? What is really important to me? Who do you become during your recovery? How do I fit in? This is not a how-to book for recovery, nor will it tell you what you'll experience or how you should deal with the loss of ability, but it's a book full of hope for stroke survivors. It gives them and their support network a broad picture of what might lie ahead. And it explores some critical questions that, in the more prevalent focus on physical recovery, are all too often overlooked in the effort to help people who have lost capabilities from stroke or otherwise.

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