Comments on: How to tidy after a brain injury in 4 easy steps

By: Michelle #jumbledbrain

Michelle #jumbledbrain — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:59:23 +0000

In reply to Mechelle. Hi, there are posts from 2023, but I have taken I sabbatical lately. However, I have written the posts in a way they will always to relevant to new readers. Hope that helps.

By: Jonny Mo

Jonny Mo — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:35:40 +0000

Consistency. That’s the toughest.
I have borrowed and crafted acronyms to encourage good practices. Nothing is perfect and many undamaged folks have similar issue. We who have fallen from the TBI tree just have less connection to the controls.
A couple of my guide posts.
On tools that have a home but regular get left where last used – I mark them PTB…….
…….PUT THINGS BACK. If you can mark it you can track it. Use and then don’t Set it down – Put It Back where it goes.
And on my many lists, ipads or phones NOTES, are a great place to keep lists. Or a little journal on you bench. Or many little journals wherever you need them. When you make a note or track a list to….
……. GTD, Get Things Done ( google this one – it is borrowed.) Take a photo – now its on your phone. Learn to use EDIT & SAVE, to update the details.

By: Mechelle

Mechelle — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 03:40:25 +0000

Hello is any of this recent for 2023, 2024?

By: Michelle #jumbledbrain

Michelle #jumbledbrain — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 16:53:29 +0000

In reply to Bambi Ly. I hope the organised tip helps you like it has me.

By: Bambi Ly

Bambi Ly — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 04:26:22 +0000

My executive function is on sabbatical right now. I am not sure when it will decide (did you get that one) to return to work. I am lost in multiple piles if clutter. I love the tip on organizing by category..

By: michelle.munt@yahoo.co.uk

michelle.munt@yahoo.co.uk — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 08:30:01 +0000

In reply to LK Scott. Perhaps when you have decided what you want to keep that's when you need someone else to help you decide what's the best place for you to put it. Plus then they can remind you where you stored it when you can't remember.

By: LK Scott

LK Scott — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 02:17:58 +0000

I play the Exact Same Game, but with the Addition of “where do I put it now?” Organization Skills are about – Negative 40!

By: Helen Caligiuri

Helen Caligiuri — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:57:53 +0000

Fantastic! I’m a bit of a tidy person. And things have their place. My couch is a bit of an ‘in-tray’ with things I’m working on or need to process. But when I visit my mum who seems to have no systems what’s so ever I feel the worst case of OCD/ADHD ever! I feel the need to play my game called “What the fuck is this? And does it need to be here?”

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 20:06:42 +0000

I am horrible at cleaning and organizing now. I once put my cell in the fridge after getting something to drink and left it there all day. I cannot tell you how thankful I am for lifeproof cases for iPhones because I am always cold and wear a sweater. These cases make your phone waterproof and I’ve left my phone in the sweaters I’ve had on while doing the laundry and just thrown them in the wash. Yep, phone in pocket. And, putting up laundry is a job a despise. There is still laundry from last week in the baskets needing to be put up. Good thing it’s only me and my hubby or I’d be in a real mess. I still fall a lot. Have epilepsy from the brain injury. Have had to have surgery on my c-spine bc of spinal cord compression where I broke my neck. My brain and my body is a mess. I’m still “Forgetful Lucy” from the movie “50 First Dates.”

Brain injuries are the WORST!! It took me a long time to figure out who the new person was that took over was. The way I describe TBI to Everyone is that it’s like an alien life force took over your body bc you don’t know anything about the past, the present and you really don’t know your future bc you’re stuck with this new person and learning who took over your body forever. I say foreve bc if you have one BI you’re likely to have another one and another one throughout your life.

It’s something that never heals completely, one may get better over time but they are never the same and no matter how many tactics or different things they try to do to be successful; if you don’t write it down or do video diaries- it didn’t happen, in our world. Kind of like not being able to find tax forms. That’s why every thing is on a calendar or in a video or in a journal otherwise I wouldn’t know where anything is and even though my iPhone has been washed about 2900 times it’s clean and it’s apart of my brain bc wo it I’d be lost.

I do remember bits and pieces of my wreck, now. But only what led up to it and them bringing me back.