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Re: I have a brain injury [video]

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Post by andy_ppp »

Noumenon72 wrote: post #68
difosfor wrote: post #31

A big metal Christmas street ornament installation fell on my head and shoulder as a rode my bike on the street underneath. Briefly on a ventilator. Thankfully can't remember that or the week after personally and mostly recovered over the following weeks, months and years. Kind of like a logarithmic curve; fast at first and then ever slower. From what I was told, that's generally the case and there isn't really anyth…

How long has it been since the incident? How do friends tactfully tell you your IQ has dropped, and would you rather they hadn't?

Yes, I think most friends would say “don’t worry you weren’t that clever to begin with” or some other friendly jokey thing. I’m not sure offering up their version of the “truth” is helpful at all, they are unlikely to be brain specialists!

Re: I have a brain injury [video]

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Post by axiosgunnar »

difosfor wrote: post #31

A big metal Christmas street ornament installation fell on my head and shoulder as a rode my bike on the street underneath. Briefly on a ventilator. Thankfully can't remember that or the week after personally and mostly recovered over the following weeks, months and years. Kind of like a logarithmic curve; fast at first and then ever slower. From what I was told, that's generally the case and there isn't really anyth…

Hi, excuse the question, just genuinely curious, did the bike helmet help prevent worse damage in any way?

Re: I have a brain injury [video]

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Post by clubsoda »

kayodelycaon wrote: post #51

Brain injuries are horrible. While I don’t have a physical injury, I had an absolutely devastating psychotic break in 2018 that destroyed my entire sense of self. The connections to my memories prior to the break are extremely disconnected and haven’t recovered much. I have memories of an entire childhood I only lived in my head. I had to learn who I was again. I’m not the same person. I don’t even know the person I…

Similar position as myself in 2017. I recently graduate college and got a job as a software developer at a top 10 college. While the job was great, my boss was not. This led me into a psychotic depression and eventually surfaced my underlying OCD to the extremes.

Almost five years later, I am doing much better. I found the right medicine (sertraline) after a long year of mixing and matching medicine to curve my OCD. However, I feel like I haven't fully recovered. I still question almost about every feeling, thought and action. Intrusive thoughts are an every day occurrence. I have brain fog, thoughts are scattered, constant noise in my head, and somehow developed tinnitus in the midst of all this chaos.

I look back at what I was able to achieve, and keep using that as a goalpost. I get upset with myself that I am not at that level performance. I am getting to the point where I am learning to accept life for what it is, and not "looking in the rear view mirror".

Re: I have a brain injury [video]

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Post by pcthrowaway »

sizzle wrote: post #79
pcthrowaway wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had Bells Palsy also, brought on by Lyme disease. It's kind of a divisive topic, but may be worth looking into if you or GP have had other symptoms which are common with Lyme disease

Lyme disease from ticks?

Presumably, yes. I don't remember actually seeing the tick but I felt it when I scratched it off thinking it was a scab, and later developed the typical bullseye rash

Re: I have a brain injury [video]

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Post by Enginerrrd »

sizzle wrote: post #78
kayodelycaon wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. I had a four month long psychotic break. It started mid-August 2018 when I physically felt something snap in my brain. (See my reply to the same comment)

Would shrooms help you reset?

I'm pretty pro psychedelics, but you should know it's generally a REALLY bad idea for anyone with a history of psychosis to use them, to the point that I really implore you not to recommend them so casually to someone with such a history. That cohort is at very high risk and the use of psychedelics can really exacerbate the condition and make people less functional.

Re: I have a brain injury [video]

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Post by romeros »

nickkell wrote: post #73
difosfor wrote: post #31

A big metal Christmas street ornament installation fell on my head and shoulder as a rode my bike on the street underneath. Briefly on a ventilator. Thankfully can't remember that or the week after personally and mostly recovered over the following weeks, months and years. Kind of like a logarithmic curve; fast at first and then ever slower. From what I was told, that's generally the case and there isn't really anyth…

Did you manage to get any compensation from whoever installed the ornament?

this. OP.. did you get to sue the person?

Re: I have a brain injury [video]

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Post by jmrm »

l8nite wrote: post #56
dvt wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My regards, and this is purely out of curiosity so feel free to ignore if I'm overstepping -- how are you "not the same person?" Can you tell what you "should" be like? Did you previously enjoy certain things that you don't anymore? Hoping you get better.

I’m not the parent, but I had a moment where I physically felt something “break” in my brain (stress related), and ever since then I haven’t been the same person. The feeling is hard to articulate, but I no longer connect to my feelings or thoughts in the ways I had been accustomed to. My new behaviors and patterns are somewhat destructive to the life I was building prior to my “break,” and it’s incredibly maddening…

> I’m not the parent, but I had a moment where I physically felt something “break” in my brain (stress related), and ever since then I haven’t been the same person.

Same here. I had the mix of a heavy burnout and a broke up a couple of years ago and I'm still recovering.

It's curious how I totally had the same kind of "logarithmic" recovery that some other people wrote in other comments here. It might be how the brain reacts to that.

Re: I have a brain injury [video]

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Post by difosfor »

axiosgunnar wrote: post #82
difosfor wrote: post #31

A big metal Christmas street ornament installation fell on my head and shoulder as a rode my bike on the street underneath. Briefly on a ventilator. Thankfully can't remember that or the week after personally and mostly recovered over the following weeks, months and years. Kind of like a logarithmic curve; fast at first and then ever slower. From what I was told, that's generally the case and there isn't really anyth…

Hi, excuse the question, just genuinely curious, did the bike helmet help prevent worse damage in any way?

I wasn't wearing a helmet; we usually still don't wear those on bicycles in the Netherlands. I do when I'm on a holiday and have thought about wearing it here as well, but still don't to be honest. I guess you could say riding a bike is like going for a walk here if that makes sense to you?
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