Comments on: Trying to understand what’s wrong: The confusion of my brain injury https://www.jumbledbrain.com/hello-world/ Discover - Empower - Thrive Sun, 19 Jun 2022 00:30:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Michelle #jumbledbrain https://www.jumbledbrain.com/hello-world/#comment-1881 Tue, 25 Aug 2020 18:36:31 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=1#comment-1881 In reply to Jessie.

I’m not a doctor so please take this with a grain of salt: as far as I understand medical science can’t heal a brain. There’s no drug that can make it better, although those that are for mental health issues can help address chemical imbalances within the brain which an injury have have caused. Through cognitive therapy it is possible to work on the symptoms and neuroplasticity is where the brain builds new connections to learn how to complete the exercise better. A great article that goes through this is Neuroplasticity: The 10 Fundamentals Of Rewiring Your Brain by Debbie Hampton.

]]> By: Jessie https://www.jumbledbrain.com/hello-world/#comment-1880 Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:28:52 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=1#comment-1880 Thank you for your positivity and hope. My name is Jessie, and I share the same sort of aspiration, to change my story from a tragedy into something powerful and useful. Something that can help someone through their own troubles.
I have been living on my own for just over two years now, after leaving a very violent relationship with the father of my only son. During the years living in domestic violence, I sustained countless injuries of every imaginable type. And of course, as any person in controlling relationship will surely tell you, there was even more damaging emotional abuse than the physical.
Its common knowledge that physical injuries, may they be single incidents or repeated, and the effects of long term stress and emotional abuse can lead to cognitive impairment, memory problems, and changes in all areas of personality and motor skills.
So this is where I am having struggles. I know that I have every symptom that one would expect from a person who has been through the kind of stress and abuse one sees in domestic violence situations. But I also know the physical injuries that accrued almost daily for those years, never once was I seen by a medical professional.
When I have made attempts to speak with a doctor about my past, and my current symptoms, I feel I have been met with less than helpful advice. Prescription for anxiety. And I guess my question is, if there is something still physically wrong within my brain, what is there to do? And at this point, is that physical injury still threat to me, or do I just patiently and hopefully wait for the healing process to be done? Should I push for my doctor to take me seriously about checking on the physical health of my brain, or would all that testing be irrelevant because nothing could be done at this point anyway? I work so hard every day battling my anxiety. But if something in there is physically causing the problem, I am fighting against more than I can handle, right?

]]> By: Michelle #jumbledbrain https://www.jumbledbrain.com/hello-world/#comment-1512 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 22:35:51 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=1#comment-1512 In reply to Jenny Hughes.

Jenny I’m sorry that you have had such a bad experience. I do hope that the system can continue to improve and do better for all patients.

]]> By: Jenny Hughes https://www.jumbledbrain.com/hello-world/#comment-1511 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 21:52:31 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=1#comment-1511 Thank you for saying these things which a lot of us have trouble saying – but even when we do say them often (repeatedly) doctors etc. don’t hear us and prefer to diagnose ‘mental health problems’ and try to push us onto antidepressants – they did with me, not only for my brain injury but also my very serious throat and neck injuries caused by doctors during anaesthesia at an NHS hospital in the UK; then afterwards they (& their insurers) falsified my medical records, lied, denied and covered-up what they’d done wrong and wrote these same lies to my GP (and others) who believed them instead of me, his long-term patient) and prevented me from receiving info, remedial care and the right rehab and help. Too much to say and here’s not the place, but thank you for helping to educate everyone about brain injury.

]]> By: michelle.munt@yahoo.co.uk https://www.jumbledbrain.com/hello-world/#comment-597 Thu, 25 May 2017 04:47:10 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=1#comment-597 In reply to Courage.

Courage I’m so sorry you are in this position. It’s soul destroying to feel you’re not listened to and dismissed. I hope in time you come to accept yourself as you are now. That’s the first step to happiness.

]]> By: Courage https://www.jumbledbrain.com/hello-world/#comment-596 Wed, 24 May 2017 23:44:02 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=1#comment-596 Michelle, Just seeing the quote from Don Winslow has me weeping. Thank you. Grocery stores as agony…yes. “Picking away at myself”…yes. Just yesterday I told my fiance, “I don’t know how not to be afraid.” Diffuse axonal injury…yes. Desperately lonely within all this and craving bonds…yes. So many loved ones now dead or otherwise gone. A one-time consult with a psychiatrist recently who asked me, “Was your brain injury self-diagnosed?” A neurologist who wrote in a report that “…this woman” [me] “insisted” on the presence of certain symptoms which did not show up on an MRI (although an abnormal advance of lesions on the white matter of my brain did). Yes, I am someone I don’t like … and I have lost the affection of several people due to the injury and the devastating changes — often surprising and sudden — to the person I used to be. I wonder if that person is dead. It’s been nearly four years since my latest brain injury (there have been several through my life), and now that my body is in active menopause … this one has tilted the balance, it seems, into damage deeper than the previous resilience could mitigate.

I just found your blog in the last few days and am grateful for your presence, your honesty, your courage. Thank you for being in the world. Blessings on you.

]]> By: michelle.munt@yahoo.co.uk https://www.jumbledbrain.com/hello-world/#comment-551 Wed, 03 May 2017 08:27:24 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=1#comment-551 In reply to UNITED??KINGDOM (@RoyalNavyNews).

Interesting point. Thanks for this.

]]> By: UNITED??KINGDOM (@RoyalNavyNews) https://www.jumbledbrain.com/hello-world/#comment-549 Wed, 03 May 2017 04:16:32 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=1#comment-549 Following brain injury it is normal to try to cope and pretend to be uninsured. It is difficult to face the reality of a brain injury. The motor insurance industry is evading responsibility and this must be stopped. Working together with the Police we want to see full compensation applied for from vehicle insurers. This can recover NHS and care costs helping to lower taxes and save the NHS. Please visit us at StopRisk.de.tl/Recovery.htm

]]> By: Shari K Folken https://www.jumbledbrain.com/hello-world/#comment-87 Fri, 07 Oct 2016 20:20:26 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=1#comment-87 yes it helped . There is so much I dont understand

]]> By: craiglock https://www.jumbledbrain.com/hello-world/#comment-86 Thu, 06 Oct 2016 20:30:58 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=1#comment-86 With regard to previous comment I’m told it by “doctor m” that it was a CT scan and not an MRI (which apparently provides a lot more detail

see
https://traumaticbraininjurytbi.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/ct-scans-and-traumatic-brain-injury/
and

https://headbraininjury.wordpress.com/2016/08/20/a-journey-our-story/

Keep informing and sharing, Michelle
Regards
craig

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