locked-in syndrome
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Search complete. 21 mentions across 4 episodes found for "locked-in syndrome".
Oct 12, 2026
Clodagh DunlopGUEST
It's very difficult to tell someone what's wrong when you can only spell out, but you're crying and you need your eyes to be able to spell out.
Clodagh DunlopGUEST
So it took a long time for her to calm me, and I remember spelling out to her, "I have locked-in syndrome.
Clodagh DunlopGUEST
You didn't tell me.
Clodagh DunlopGUEST
I want to die." As a police officer, I deal in facts.
Clodagh DunlopGUEST
A doctor saying that I had locked-in syndrome, and I knew the facts for it, that I understood the prognosis.
Clodagh DunlopGUEST
She said, "You always want to get from A to B, but sometimes you can't take the direct route from A to B.
Clodagh DunlopGUEST
Sometimes you have to take the back roads to get to B."
Caroline O'NeillHOST
I was like, "Oh, I wonder would she ever join me," but she has.
David EaglemanGUEST
And he was on top of the world, social life and everything.
David EaglemanGUEST
He had one of these strokes, ended up with locked-in syndrome.
David EaglemanGUEST
He was only able to blink his left eyelid.
David EaglemanGUEST
What happened is his friend came in and would recite every letter of the alphabet in order of frequency.
VaughanHOST
And what-
FletchHOST
Kind of more like Locked In Syndrome or something.
FletchHOST
Can you say-
ShannonCORRESPONDENT
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Catherine GrayHOST
They would, uh-
Maheen Mausoof AdamsonGUEST
Would be Locked-in Syndrome, I think it's called.
Maheen Mausoof AdamsonGUEST
Yeah.
Catherine GrayHOST
Yeah.
Maheen Mausoof AdamsonGUEST
So you have stroke, then you have aphasia, and then you have depression, and that's a lot of people, and that's not the only people that this can help.
Maheen Mausoof AdamsonGUEST
It helps people who just can't...
Maheen Mausoof AdamsonGUEST
Locked-in Syndrome, that thing you were just talking about, people lying on the bed in hospitals, nursing homes.
Maheen Mausoof AdamsonGUEST
They have what's called locked, they're locked in within themselves.