Young Overland Park stroke victim working to help patients [Video]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The struggle is rarely the same from patient to patient.

Patients recovering from strokes complain of a wide variety of symptoms — anxiety and depression are high on that list.

The summer of 2017 left its impact on Overland Park’s Angie Read. She was a healthy professional and mother who suffered a stroke at age 46. Read says the stroke didn’t leave many physical scats, but the mental health crises it left her with have been torture.

Read, who has written a series of books about her recovery, cites research that claims a third of stroke survivors battle anxiety and depression in some capacity.

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Read now works as a life coach helping patients who are trying to put their strokes behind them.

“Not all stroke survivors look like stroke survivors,” Read said on Wednesday.

Read said she needed a year of working with various doctors and …