What Is Aphasia? Neurologist Explains Cognitive Disorder Impacting Bruce Willis 

Bruce, you've done enough.. No need to prove yourself especially with your condition.. Just live out your days..

Bruce Willis is a great actor and understand that he needs to take this time to care for himself ! I am praying for him and wishing him all the best ! He’s a great actor ! I hate he is facing this but I hope he will be fine !

I have expressive aphasia. I can talk little, read little, and write little. I had a stroke August 2020. I feel FRUSTRATED, hard work!

As a speech pathologist of 26+years I was delighted to see this doctors recommendation for speech therapy when someone is experiencing complications of aphasia. The medical marvel of neuroplasicity has humbled me personally and professionally while having the honor of helping many that experience aphasia. Thank you again for sharing this segment ahead of May's better speech and hearing month.

Poor Bruce! He’s entertained us for years. I hope he gets better soon

I heard about this yesterday,it truly saddens me ,I love Bruce Willis he’s had a great career ,I know his family support him in this difficult time ,god bless him .

I had what felt like aphasia for the first 6 months after severe carbon monoxide poisoning. The simplest tasks or sentences would completely confuse me. I was basically just existing and could barely function mentally. It was a scary feeling

Bruce is an amazing actor and has built a legacy that will live on for generations. You can finally relax now John McLane, just enjoy your free time with your friends and family. You more than deserve it.

So sorry for Bruce, thank you for all your movies!! Your career was an amazing and great one. Wish you the best sir!

There's an eye-opening video on YT if you search "fluent aphasia", man in a green shirt. I'd never heard it before. Wow. Bless you, Bruce. Hang in there.

It is sad to see that many of the great actors of my generation are slowing fading away over the years.

As someone who has been diagnosed with Aphasia since I was two years old, it's nice to see the country to finally take notice of my disorder. Maybe people will finally take it seriously now.

Morning prayers 🙏 for him many folks are going through headaches pain that don't go away and forgetting simple things my hear goes out to all who suffer from this 💔

I also have aphasia, I'm able to speak really good somedays but there are some days when I dosent function at all, I get headache and feel disorganized, also a little bit of personality change can accur. It's 100% due to my autism. Recently found it 33 years old I'm somewhere on the spectrum 🤔

My heart goes out to Bruce Willis and I hope he will get on a stationary bike and gets regular aerobic exercise to improve his brain and body function.

I hope Bruce is able to recover through the options the doctor stated, but if he can't, I hope he finds peace.

Bruce your very much loved, I'm praying for your speedy recovery ❤️

For decades, one of my favorite actors. Going all the way back to the show ""Moonlighting". I truly hope that he can recover. ❤❤❤

Not only it has to do with my communication skills, but also it's difficult for me to express my emotions. It's so excruciating when you have to deal with your own. Not being able to share it to others, not being to share what you've been going through. It's so f*cking debilitating. I'm still 17 years old, and this is what resulted to my introversion

I pray for this Legend to get better

I have aphasia. I got it from different prescribed medications altering my brain chemistry. They won't tell you that side of things of course.

Sending prayers to Bruce Willis his family .

This is sad. Prayers for him to stay strong

Everyone loves you Bruce. You have always been a true Hero to many people. We all pray for you in the name of Jesus. May he wrap you in his Mercy and walk with you and stay beside you. You are in our Hearts and Prayers Bruce. God Bless You

Lost my brother to this very cruel disease my heart goes out to them x

I had 🧠 surgery in 2011 due to a brain mass, and that left me with aphasia! I was fluent in Spanish but now I understand but my words just come out jumbled and it's frustrating af!!! I'm relearning Spanish by taking one on one tutor because a large class is overwhelming.

Breaks my heart!!! We love you Bruce !!!!

1:49 "Again, we know you haven't treated Bruce Willis, but, can there be improvement? Are there things you can do if you have this to get yourself back on track?" I think I'm experiencing aSpHaSiA right now.

I really hate this for Bruce Willis he's one of my favorite actors 😥. 🙏For you Bruce wish you all the best ❤️

These interviewers make light of it like it’s perhaps just temporary memory failure. It’s not. It destroys your confidence for social interaction. Sometimes you can’t read, speak, spell or understand what someone is saying, all at different times, and it can progress from a couple times a day, to numerous times every hour of every day, and it appears to destroy your memory capacity, as well as induce anxiety attacks, and that’s not even a particularly bad case of it I think.

I had aphasia since I was a baby and it really sucks!

New disease or chronic condition. Prayers for Bruce and all that suffer from this challenge.

When someone does not remember it's people job to help them remember thats the right thing to do

Live Live your life to the fullest..GOD BLESS AND KEEP YOU

I keep forgetting words while talking especially in my native and 2nd language , i do speak Arabic french and English I think that this is the main reason i forget words and it has been kinda annoying lately people lose interest talking to me . The second cause i forget words is that i don't improve my communication skills I'm most of the time calm silent and i only speak when needed . The 3rd cause , i feel like my brain is so busy thinking about a lots of things simultaneously I don't think that my anxiety is one of the causes because this happens to me even with my parents

Byron's story is awesome , he has teachers helping him along..

Thank you for letting us know the condition.

So is that the thing Timmy from South Park has LOL I can now imagine him yelling BRUCE like Timmy from South Park

Me and my friend Maria’s school bus driver Tim has aphasia. We had to take control of the bus when he got air lifted. My friend Caroline watched us. When we got to the school. Me and Maria. Ran to the central office and we said our bus driver is sick call the ambulance. Someone in central office called 911. It took 30 minutes for the ambulance to get there. When the ambulance came it was paramedic Bart and paramedic Joseph. Bart and Joseph got the stretcher and got him off the bus. They loaded him into the ambulance. When they got to the hospital I was born in. He had to be air lifted. They flew him over to UAB. His bus was still there. I couldn’t ride his bus until January. Mike had to do his job. On Halloween we wished he were here. On thanksgiving we wished he were here. On Christmas we wished he were here. On New Year’s Day he returned home and was well. On January 5th we were back riding his bus to school again. He fully recovered from his stroke.

We love you Bruce

I have aphasia like symptoms When I have a migraine. I just lose words and no matter how hard I think and focus they are just gone. I can't even hear the word or name in my head, It's just gone. It's extremely frustrating. Luckily for me it only lasts minutes.

Bruce Willis, you are a legend! Take care of yourself.. You are L♡VED !!!

Love & support from North Carolina. Be well, Mr. Willis!

"Sometimes you suddenly can't speak because you've had a stroke and that's a case when you have to go to the emergency room right away." "Oh, we've all been there, it happens to us on air."

What a cruel twist of fate for Bruce. Being a top actor who skill was communicating via speech and acting through the medium of film, which is now going to diminish.

Blessing on Bruce 🥺🙏🏽

I LOVE BRUCE WILLIS❤️ God bless you brother

The CDC VAERS database contains numerous aphasia events from 2021. Bruce should have bucked the system in real life

This is so sad. He’s one of my favorite actors of all time. God I hope he can get some help

I love Bruce, hes such a class act

Ashwaganda refreshes the brain

“Trouble communicating with or understanding someone” Great explanation

This is actually extremely sad. He’s not even gonna be able to tell us what’s going on in his thoughts.

Stroke?? Again?? I’m wondering what is trending now

Unfortunately in America we only treat symptoms and never try to get to the root of a problem. Explore the possibility of this being a symptom of sleep apnea and the chronic starvation of oxygen to a certain part of the brain.

My hubby was admitted for 45days for high fever and now told he has Wernicke's Aphasia recommended to go for speech therapy .

What was so cool about Master Chief in Halo was that he was silent. This silent protagonist fighting for earth, the audience can. Place themselves in the shoes of the character and if Bruce decided to act again. It'd be just as cool. Silence can be very power, conveying emotions through subtle movement and gestures. Hope you guys have a good day.

Oh a man that has minimal speech? MY DREAM MAN!

I know that people at times use the terms "Some-Timers", "Brain Cramps", etc., which makes me wonder if military personnel with combat deployments are possibly subject to Aphasia due to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), etc.

How did Bruce get it? Did he have an injury or stroke?

The constant tip of your tongue feeling with the please slow down so I can process what you are saying feeling. So fun 🤪🙃😤😜

God bless you Bruce, prayers going your way. 🙏🏻

Korban Dallas. Legend.

Wonder how Kevin Smith feels.

Once read somewhere that ‘exercising the brain’ via crossword puzzles may help prevent Alzheimers (not sure if this is true), so I find it surprising that a lot of actors are diagnosed with brain diseases (reading scripts/memorizing lines = EXCELLENT exercise for brain??)..

By the way his ex-wife work on ABC General Hospital… they have characters on their show that have a aphasia example dr. Jones 1983 ish years ( he died of another virus 🦠)

It's so sad the hear this type of news.

I have aphasia from a stroke. This video does a terrible of describing aphasia. Thanks for trying though...

Love you bruce willis❤️ your the man

😭😭😭SO SAD😭😭😭 OMG.....THIS IS ME.. these are my symptoms........ especially speaking to my FAMILY DOCTOR about my DEPRESSION & HEALTH ISSUES.. i struggle to express my feelings/thoughts into sentences.. i feel so dumb and i am not ARTICULATE speaking English........

Prayer for you Bruce

Move to the Philippines, it's the most communicative nation-state, therapy every day

i remember when willis refused to do another expendables movie (we now know due to his failing condition) & stallone called him out publicly as "selfish" because willis said he wanted more money for the role. whether that was the actual reason, to fund his care, to leave to his widow & kids, or just not ready to disclose his rela reasons, etc..we dont know, but even if it wasnt about getting sick, stallone had some nerve calling him out about what willis wanted to do with his time. stallone was the selfish one expecting willis to do a movie just because HE, stallone, wanted him to, for more box office appeal. a supposed friend. i lost respect for stallone after that. money vs friendship. in hollywood, money wins every time.

I have this

Out of 115 comments, 5 said this was due to the Vax, 3 promoted RU-vid cure videos, 2 were mean spirited / victim blaming, at the time of this writing.

Prayers

Bruce your a great actor, you've done enough just enjoy life.your my idol.i like to watch all your movies.

I found it hard to understand this video, I had to backwards the video to understand it. Am I just slow? Is it possible for a 17 y.o to be this slow and forgetful? Or do I have just a short attention span TT

I never heard of this. Is chances of recovery a high probability?

Why not run for president Bruce? It would be a upgrade in speech from what we have now.

Are people with this able to still right down or type what they think?

Do yourself a favor.....NEVER GET OLD !!

complete occlusion of vessels; usually middle cerebral arteries

Starting to think there’s more to the rate of deterioration Bruce endured, especially after the rare disease Celine Dion was diagnosed with, a lot of people getting sick and dying right now From things you don’t see everyday.

Ancestry is a clue of food intolerances and allergies that he may not be aware of that effect his well being. They will cause strokes and damage due to the severe migraines. Wishing him well.

I have that through covid.... this sucks he is such a good actor love him

i thought they were talking about bruce not joe.

I have stuttering or stammering, am i aphasia?

Great actor will be missed in movies. Aphasia is a symptom of something else like was mentioned. Stroke, bleeding, mass, injury. Why are they only giving symptom and not elucidating cause? Did he just have an illness. Did he just get a new safe and effective therapeutic. Seems like not all information being presented for some reason. It’s like saying someone has headache and not mentioning large brain tumor responsible. In short what is his diagnosis?

Sad he had to retire it’s now impossible for him to act:(

I just watched Wire Room "the most recent Bruce Willis film" and his lines were very short and east, it was very sad to watch especially when you figure out what's going on in his life, it wasn't a bad film but Bruce definitely was already declining at the filming of this, this sucks man, he's done so many jobs and I've bet he's known he's declining and he's been doing as many movies as he could before retiring.

that is sad that this happen but i think he should go to speach thearpist...that might can help him recover. GOD speed !!

Broca's or Wernicke's aphasaia?

I have this from benzodiazepine klonopin. Been on for 15 years but trying to get off..

i want this

U still my actor

Nothing is clear without knowing the cause of the aphasia. Aphasia is a communication issue the cause impacts the cognitive aspects.

Pyrocynical yes?

2022 We love all of Bruce Willis movies great guy great Actor

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