Hollywood star Bruce Willis, quite possibly, will soon end his film career. A 67-year-old man was diagnosed with aphasia.
On Wednesday, it became known that Hollywood legend Bruce Willis, who became famous for the Die Hard franchise and the film The Sixth Sense, is likely to end his acting career due to aphasia. This is a severe, steadily progressive neurodegenerative disorder that prevents normal communication. Bruce Willis' family has announced that due to aphasia, the actor is likely to forgo the career that meant so much to him. According to the US National Institutes of Health, approximately 1 million Americans suffer from aphasia, and 180,000 become ill each year.
The brain disorder aphasia can manifest itself in a variety of ways, and it occurs as a result of a head injury, after a stroke, a tumor, or other pathological processes in the brain. Experts say that aphasia often provokes depression – about one in three. It leads to changes in character, cessation of communication with friends and relatives. A person loses the ability to speak normally, although he had not experienced any problems with this before. He sometimes does not understand speech, cannot read and write.
It is still difficult to say to what extent aphasia manifests itself in Bruce Willis. But it is obvious that an actor who has severe problems with normal speech cannot continue to do what he loves. There are four types of aphasia, but each of them destroys the process of habitual communication to some extent. This is the ability to translate your thoughts with the help of words, and physically pronounce words, as well as interpret and understand the speech of other people. Unfortunately, the disorder is incurable and can progress to the stage of dementia. (READ MORE)