I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021)
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Re: I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021)
#2She and her family were hit by a wrong way truck probably going 70 mph. It completely shattered their bodies, lives and shows how precious our moments are.
This almost feels personal to me because of how well written her account is. I’ve had terrible chronic migraines for as long as i can remember. Apparently they can be associated with brain lesions, too. I’ll clearly never know how they’ve impacted my personality.
Re: I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021)
#3Re: I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021)
#4What a well-written story. I don't have much to add, but I can say her humour or writing talent seems to be quite sharp for someone that feels she has not completely regained her mental faculties.
Also the joke about opening a spa where she whacks stressed people with a bat so they find respite from our busy world: we already do that ourselves when we reach mental burnout. I did, and in some ways, I feel that years later, my mental sharpness is still not what it used to be. Perhaps burnout is as traumatic to the brain as a massive brain injury; certainly takes as long to heal from.
Re: I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021)
#5Is there a follow-up?
Re: I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021)
#6What a well-written story. I don't have much to add, but I can say her humour or writing talent seems to be quite sharp for someone that feels she has not completely regained her mental faculties. Also the joke about opening a spa where she whacks stressed people with a bat so they find respite from our busy world: we already do that ourselves when we reach mental burnout. I did, and in some ways, I feel that years l…
It’s also a scene in the old movie “I heart Huckabees”. Great movie btw.
Re: I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021)
#7This is a really interesting account. One thing I found myself wondering was how much is the shift in her caused by the TBI, and how much by the assertion that she and her family are mortal?
Re: I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021)
#8She and her family were hit by a wrong way truck probably going 70 mph. It completely shattered their bodies, lives and shows how precious our moments are. This almost feels personal to me because of how well written her account is. I’ve had terrible chronic migraines for as long as i can remember. Apparently they can be associated with brain lesions, too. I’ll clearly never know how they’ve impacted my personality.
After decades of migraines I was diagnosed with Chronic Daily Migraines. I was prescribed a 'under the tongue' triptan which if the migraine aura arrived during the day worked some of the time. If I woke with the migraine at 10/10 pain level than I lost the full day.
One of my daughters also had weekly migraines, lost a day at work each time.
I got a Daith piercing in my right ear - my migraines originated on the right side of my head. Yes the piercing stung, but the next day I had no migraine. The constant pain had just stopped. This was maybe 7-8 years ago. I very rarely get odd migraine symptoms - vision feels off, head feels woolly - but no pain at all.
I convinced my daughter to have a Daith. She now doesn't even get regular headaches.
Anecdotal though this is, I would suggest looking into getting this piercing. It is discreet. There is no formal research I am aware of but for this sample of two it was a huge positive.
Re: I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021)
#9For some reason I found this line particularly funny and poignant:
"But did you know that you can eat whole grains and still get hit by a truck?"
Re: I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021)
#10She and her family were hit by a wrong way truck probably going 70 mph. It completely shattered their bodies, lives and shows how precious our moments are. This almost feels personal to me because of how well written her account is. I’ve had terrible chronic migraines for as long as i can remember. Apparently they can be associated with brain lesions, too. I’ll clearly never know how they’ve impacted my personality.
After decades of migraines I was diagnosed with Chronic Daily Migraines. I was prescribed a 'under the tongue' triptan which if the migraine aura arrived during the day worked some of the time. If I woke with the migraine at 10/10 pain level than I lost the full day. One of my daughters also had weekly migraines, lost a day at work each time. I got a Daith piercing in my right ear - my migraines originated on the rig…
I could see that affecting the trapezius muscle or nerve endings somehow. That seems to play a large role in many of my migraines. It probably does for others as it’s part of where the botox for migraine shots go.
Ie when the pain shoots up through/along the side of the traps, along the backside of the ear, to the forehead and back of the eye.
Reminds me of pinching the ear lobes during a migraine. That seemed to sort of help but not terribly.
Nowadays nurtec/the cgrp protein inhibitors work wonders. But I’ll consider the piercings too.