Apathy also seems to be with a lot of stroke survivors, I also wonder if it effects other head injury survivors. Apathy can be very misunderstood by the caregiver if we don't know ahead of time that this can be one of the side effects of many stroke survivors. Perhaps other head injury survivors as well. It's very disturbing when it seems our loved ones don't have much interest in what they once did, or maybe in what they should. My husband had a lot of apathy following his stroke, but a lot of it has gone, although not all. After his stroke, the roof could have caved in and he literally would have shown little to no reaction to it. It's been 2 years out from his stroke, hopefully more of him will return as he continues to recover.