Category: Brain Injury

How will I recover from a Traumatic Brain Injury?
I ask that question all the time since my injury over ten years ago and haven’t found an answer. Physical therapy and exercise have made some improvement, but it hasn’t resolved the nerve damage.

Recovery indicates loss. Beyond the physical, mental and emotional health, traumatic brain injury survivors may loose their income, independence, security, self esteem and much more. It may take years if not decades to regain what has been lost.

Understanding a TBI is difficult since the location and severity of every traumatic brain injury is unique.
A general description of a traumatic brain injury is an insult to the brain resulting in cognitive, physical or emotional impairment.

Time management is about being efficient with our time by planning and organizing our activities so we can complete tasks quicker and have time for other things. There are several steps to managing time:
 

These time management steps are also cognitive skills called Executive Functions, when damaged by a brain injury they are termed Executive Dysfunction.

Daily fatigue can be physical, mental and psychological. Fatigue is a continuous weariness resulting with decreased energy, motivation and concentration. Many things will cause fatigue including but not limited to anemia, diabetes and depression, sleep disorders can also cause fatigue.

Balance, dizziness and coordination are troublesome for various reasons. And this blog post is difficult to write since I don’t know the all the answers to my questions.
Fatigue plays a role in all my difficulties, it seems I can never get enough sleep or rest to concentrate on everything and I’ll be repeating this throughout the blog.

Exercise is an activity to develop the body and mind, a task to be practiced for improving a skill. Everyone can always improve the physical and mental activities of their life with effort.

Sensory Overload was the original subject of this article, I wanted to share my difficulties with sensitive hearing since my brain injury. When I researched why and how a person obtains sensitive hearing and/or other sensory problems, I learned my attention deficits were the silent culprit.

Solitude after a Traumatic Brain Injury can be healthy. For me solitude and seclusion were caused by the fear of failure. I have poor balance and coordination, understanding what people were saying took longer than usual and having to explain what happened was difficult since I have no memory of the accident.

Traumatic Brain Injury endurance is limited as a result of concentration causing fatigue. That’s my experience and with regards to writing this blog, my endurance is fading, I need a rest.