Stroke Advert
pierre_gustave
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If there is anything that gets me working the remote it is the scary 'you are having a stroke' advert.
I know it is well-intentioned and all that jazz.However, to those of us who have lost family and friends to strokes , it is nothing but a vivid reminder of how they died.:(
I know it is well-intentioned and all that jazz.However, to those of us who have lost family and friends to strokes , it is nothing but a vivid reminder of how they died.:(
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If this advert helps at least one person to get treatment, then what harm is it doing. What next? Ban macmillan adverts because they upset people who have lost others to cancer, these adverts are there to help.
Just about everyone has seen the stroke adverts, people who most probably wouldn't know what was happening, but now do and will get help to the ill person quicker than they would if this advert had never been shown.
But now I think I know what to look for, I do switch over when the ad comes on. It's too upsetting.
Before i first saw it, i thought the symptoms of a stroke was someone keeling over and not being able to move.
This advert has now equipt myself and many others with this vital knowledge.
Yes it is a public information film, not an advert even though I went with the theme and called it an advert. Thanks for pointing that out :rolleyes:
What is the benefit to greater society to impose such distressing images to all?
If people wish to know things about what is going on with a stroke that is their business, but why should this be communicated to everyone?
I look forward to the medical explanation surrounding the heart attack to be presented in graphic detail.
Indeed before I saw it I had no idea what I should look for, nor how to act. Now I at least know some of the main signs and what needs to happen in the event of a attack.
We need more adverts like this and less of the kind which try and sell us useless JMC crap!
That's already been done, with Stephen Berkoff starring in it.
Raises awareness of what?
I can't see that anything that has been communicated is worth more than the distress that adverts like this cause to the majority.
Certainly no one would do anything differently now than they would have done before.
It seems a terrible waste of tax-payers money, what about info on what to do if a child is choking or a person burns themself badly on hot fat. Instead we get hundreds of showings of the stroke info ad.
I'd prefer TV PIFs about things onlookers can do to REALLY help, say, when someone is having a heart attack, or choking, or having an epileptic seizure, or how to stem serious bleeding, ETC.
Even if calling an ambulance was too little too late the fact that people would do something in such an emergency is better than standing by helplessly in such a dreadful situation.
On the Monday morning,he was gone.Massive stroke.I don't know the exact details except for it was very quick.
I saw the ad a while back.I thought it was pretty informative,a bit shocking.But i've remembered the 'F.A.S.T.' guide ever since.
I also carry a CPR, and heart attack guide ever since my dad had one many years ago.
I think there should be more of these types of ads.Only good can come of them.
I'm not a medically trained person either but I have seen the advert which stresses that the sooner the situation is recognised and treated the greater the recovery (albeit not necessarily total) could be.....so anyone with actual medical knowledge care to comment??
The problem with shocking [insert name here] is that eventually you have to ramp up the shock factor to get peoples attention
And then the inevitable backlash and return to bland nothingness, so what have you actually achieved in the long term?
It's short-termism writ large.
Yeah, I don't understand the point in the flames. It's apparent that something is wrong with the person, no need for the special effects.
What was really odd was that for three days before the stroke my mother kept saying she was going to have one as she was quit ill even visiting the doctors.
On the subject of stroke did anyone see a program on the TV about 3 months back were they were giving stroke and other long term head injury patients a sleeping tablet.
This tablet had amazing effects on some patients, one women who was virtually in a coma woke up turned to her daughter and and then asked how are you then when she hadn't even been able to recognize her or speak for a year or two. A few minuets later she was sitting up in bed and a week or so later walking and feeding herself.
The down side is that it only works on some patients and only last a short time.
They are trying to find out what it is that's having this effect and hopefully make a use full drug.
I just find the advert a bit graphic lol! but thats because its affected me and my family personally!
My mother suffered a stroke in the night but didn't want to disturb me and left it til morning to tell me. It just reminds me that if she'd told me right away and if we'd got her to hospital quicker she would have been with us for a lot longer. She didn't die right away but lost the use of her right side and spent the last 4 months of her life in a nursing home until she finally succumbed.
Of course I don't want it to happen to anyone else and maybe if it had been on when she was alive she might not have waited so long but does it have to be repeated quite so often to get the message across? I just can't stop thinking "if only"
yes, that would be useful as well but people don't always have irreversible brain damage with strokes. Surely the whole point of this PIF is that for those who start to suffer strokes and CAN recover from them? I'm grateful for the pointing up of symptoms so that I might be able to help if I were in time. My mother died of a stroke and although I agree it's upsetting to see such graphic (if unrealistic) symptoms, at least we might know what to do about it. There's always a good chance some people recover if the stroke is not too serious.