I would like to understand more about the struggles that a person with Aphasia is facing (other than communication difficulties) and how the people around them (especially the public) can help.
As a consequence of losing language modalities, aphasic patients are associated with multimodal neurophysiologic disorder manifested by difficulties in reading, writing, and even mathematics. Given that language is a medium of communication that is pivotal to daily living, aphasia is found to cause frustration and feelings of loneliness, isolation, and alienation due to fear or rejection, of being inadequate, and a burden on relatives and friends. Furthermore, since our ability to communicate and express our ideas and feelings are such a fundamental function, language impairment as well as the difficulty in interpreting responses from the environment caused by multimodal disorder may result in considerable activity limitation and a challenge to all relationships. Moreover, self-confidence and self-image may be negatively affected as well due to trimmed possibilities of imparting personality, relatedness, and competence through communication. Lastly, prior hobbies may be gruesome to pursue as a result of substantial participation restriction, and it may be likewise difficult to find new, meaningful activities to engage with.
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