Comments on: The frustration of struggling for words after a brain injury https://www.jumbledbrain.com/words-brain-injury/ Discover - Empower - Thrive Sun, 11 Sep 2022 18:37:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: Michelle #jumbledbrain https://www.jumbledbrain.com/words-brain-injury/#comment-3329 Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:42:29 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=1420#comment-3329 In reply to Paula Morton.

Yes and if you’re anything like me that stress makes it even harder to find the right word. It just gets worse until I take a breathe and calm down.

]]> By: Paula Morton https://www.jumbledbrain.com/words-brain-injury/#comment-3328 Sat, 13 Nov 2021 14:07:55 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=1420#comment-3328 I certainly struggle with “word finding” difficulties and expressing language, especially my grammar. I find it so stressful trying to make it make sense to the other person.

]]> By: Jo Wood https://www.jumbledbrain.com/words-brain-injury/#comment-427 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 16:04:14 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=1420#comment-427 Yes, yes, yes! Word frustration, I hate this part of my brain injury. In my job as a communicator for the deaf, you have to be really good and fast with vocabulary, changing the words for sign and rearranging the order of a sentence, British Sign Language (BSL) doesn’t use connectives like , a , is, it, and, the , small connecting words in sentences as you would do in the written and spoken form of English. I could easily swap it around at ease, from my head into sign. Since the brain tumour surgery, I can no longer do this, I slur my words, make words up, they are in the wrong order and I miss out all those little words that construct a sentence correctly, gosh this is really frustrating, I feel stupid. I think how I used to be and now I can’t speak properly. It’s worse if I am in a very busy and stimulating situation, anxiety rises and my speech really slows to one word answers, as if I am drunk. It makes you feel very vunerable. I have had to learn how to have conversations again, relearning how to listen to others and respond correctly. So Yes it frustrates me, but I still have a voice, it’s jumbled sometimes but it can be used to say kind things and benefit others, there is still value in what I say, it’s going to take time and practice. It will never be the same fluid voice, but it still has a story to tell, as yours does. I think we may notice the difference and difficulties we have now more than ever. So please frustrated or not DONT ever stop talking!

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