Do you know what a brain injury is? And, how it affects you?

Question

Experience with a group or brain injuried young folks.

The frontal lobe, and most of them had the right side of their brain hurt, I don't want to know anything, except if people are aware of it, how it will affect someone and if there was a brain injuried person sitting right across from them, would they notice?

Answer 1

NOT funny, Firefly! Damned disrespectful in fact, brain injured people can't help it, nor have I ever met one with that degree of disability. Do you like making fun of people in wheelchairs too?
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The answer is that your brain is not held fixed inside your skull, but is suspended in fluid and is free to move. In a fall or accident, even a minor one, your brain can be thrown in any direction suddenly, hit your skull, and sustain bruising and internal injuries that are not obvious at first.

When you start having confusion, depression, anxiety, migraines, insomnia, trouble remembering words, events, something that happened 5 minutes ago, your doctor might say hmmm (if you're lucky), and trot you off to see a neurologist. They generally order an MRI, and might find shrinkage of the entire brain, damage to one or more of the lobes, or damage to the lobes due to the shrinkage.

Brain damage is not curable, it's a life long affliction once you have it. It generally prevents people from working. Although they
may, and most often do, appear entirely normal, most are incapable of a regular job, as they no longer relate to time and routines in a normal way. It often makes it difficult to remember new things, and you need to think about tasks that were once simple. It's not an easy life, and few people are aware of the challenges that the brain damaged face. Many are completely unaware of the affliction. Few brain damaged people are actually willing to talk about it, as it often results in idiotic ridicule like you see from people like the one I just told off.

You can prevent rapid degeneration if you choose to, by working at reading and understanding most anything that you find challenging. The doctors will all tell you one thing: "Use it or lose it.". It will never cure you, but you can often keep it from getting worse, or too much worse, by diligent work and taking an interest in things.

Did that answer the question? Go on, get me ranting. LOL!

Answer 2

depends upon the type of brain injury you're talking about and the level of injury. They can all affect you differently. Please give us more information to what you're truely wanting to know.

Answer 3

Dur...duh...arp!