Brain Injury: Why You Can't Get Stuff Done. Understanding Executive Function

www.BrainRecoveryCoach.com Neuroscientist Dr. Alerik Arenander explains the executive function, the role of the prefrontal cortex in planning and organizing, and how this is affected by concussion and traumatic brain injury.

[@michaelflusche]

It's been over 25 years since my car accident. My accident was on April 13, 1996. That was a Saturday afternoon when this happened. I was in the hospital for 10 days short of 3 months. I was hit on the left side of my body. Most of my bones, from my head to my hip were broken. I was told that I would not be able to walk, talk or do anything normal. I fooled them, I am walking, talking and I graduated from high school with my class in May of that next year. Then 5 years later, I graduated from college with a degree in Natural Science.

[@christiannalogsdon1130]

There's a sense of loneliness in being a survivor of a severe traumatic brain injury. Across all aspects of my life, I'm affected. As a mother, a partner, a daughter, a sister, a friend and etc I am constantly faced with how my TBI effects my relationships. I feel such an inability to survive and adapt to life. This year marks 15 years since my accident and I can clearly see how much I have and continue to struggle with daily life. It often feels like nobody around me really gets it... Thank you for sharing this, it's comforting knowing I'm not as alone as it feels I am.

[@caradirisi4869]

I get it.

[@heresgelok156]

No one understands... I’m just labeled as whatever they feel towards me and not as what I deal with ... I feel ya and ppl legit just bug me ...

[@Odee_da_kidd]

@@heresgelok156 Where u from and how old r u

[@levelwithz3779]

I will be praying for you! Know that you are not alone. I had a TBI almost 3 years ago now. I feel at times much of what you have mentioned and day to day, most of us do not encounter many people with TBI's, so it is easy to feel alone. I wanted to suggest joining this Facebook group: 1 PINK Concussions Women's Group. The women in this group have greatly helped to enducate myself on my TBI and have made me feel not alone! Just know that countless people suffer from what you are and are also struggling. You're not alone and you are just as important and cared for as before your injury. Do your best to continue to advocate for yourself and seek guidance from others who understand what you are experiencing. I hope this group could help you! Will be praying for you 💗💗💗

[@mcmary0507]

It can be hard, if we let it. I own it and refuse to let it own me. It's been 5 years and I'm content and happy. I've accepted my fate and Laughter is the best Medicine!! So what, I forget stuff. Some things are worth forgetting!! 😁

[@clareweber6215]

This video explains alot. My husband has zero motivation, can no longer set goals, feels tired, listless. Very helpful. Thankyou!

[@cocogomez2278]

Very helpful. This explains a lot. Thank you for doing this interview. Also thanks for saying a tbi person doesnt feel human, connected or sense of self. Most days I feel like a zombie or ghost observing from afar.

[@chinookvalley]

Accepting that I am a different person is the hardest part of my TBI. My family and friends turned away from me, and that, I can accept - because I am NOT me. But, who am I? What I was, was amazing: creative, energetic, high-functioning, I earned $250K the year of my accident. I miss all those things, but those "things" are gone. I want to BE who I am, and I can't seem to re-establish how to find out who that is NOW. 27 years after my auto accident and I am floundering, confused, and getting more depressed. I can't afford to hire someone to help me, and I realize - I can't do it on my own. This is an excellent video, but how do I get others to understand that I have lost my "executive functions", and that I am NOT lazy nor ignorant? I have tried some rehab and cognitive therapy and it did help, but financially it is an impossible goal to get help. I used to do yoga and meditation but my attention span is about 3 seconds. NOTE: YT keeps unsubbing me from this channel. I have signed up for your weekly videos on your website and don't see them in my Inbox?

[@BrainRecoveryCoach]

Acceptance is so very hard. It ALL comes down to self- compassion. Thanks for watching and sharing your story. You could share this video with family and loved ones to explain that they are not lazy or ignorant. Many people are using my videos that. way. Thanks for letting me know you are not getting the emails. I will look into it.

[@isabelduc1046]

I empathize with you... tbi is very hard and self acceptance is very difficult

[@chinookvalley]

@@BrainRecoveryCoach Thanks so much for all the videos you have done and continue to do and share with us! Self-compassion is hard to do when negativity is what is all around us. Rather than explain my shortcomings, I try to educate and devalue stigmas against people w TBI, and share your videos.

[@shanekhalifa8781]

How are you doing today?

[@laughdoc1]

Excellent video. All TBI survivors and their families should view this. My TBI was June 1972. Poor short-term memory continues to be a daily challenge. Also, poor impulse control can and has destroyed relationships for me and others I know with TBI.

[@starphoenixmusic]

I needed this video today. Having such a tough day coping with my brain and neck injury. 💗

[@shaneverret5832]

Diagnosed with an MDAI (multiple diffuse axonal injury) from a head on collision. 8 months out and having the most struggles I've had so far. It's great to have someone giving practical information that I can mostly understand.

[@evanwilliamson3602]

One of the biggest changes for me was what others call spiritual, but it came natural to me. And that was, before I always thought I was an individual locked inside a brain, and that I had a body and I had a brain. I was a Christian also. In a matter of a couple of weeks I no longer believed in god. Then the identity issues started. I no longer believed in a separate self. I now feel that ‘I’ (this separate individual) is a concept. A representation of matter (i.e, neuronal activity and gene expression etc.). Strange.

[@jenniferwaite1048]

I can attest to the wonderful effect Transcendental Meditation has had on my recovery, especially with fatigue and focus. Please look into and consider learning TM for your rehabilitation.

[@caritabirch9831]

Thank you for this video. I have had two brain surgeries and radiation and chemo to my brain from a brain tumour in my right frontal lobe. My oncologist says I present as having a brain injury from these interventions. I am having a lot of issues with motivation and getting myself moving, lethargy and mood swings. It's a hell of a thing to cope with. I left my job and am now on a disability pension and life is incredibly difficult. I feel less alone listening to this information.

[@dk2919]

I still miss “her”. The person I was pre-TBI. I struggle daily and my family and friends can’t understand. Heck, I don’t even understand it. It’s really frustrating.

[@mcmary0507]

I feel the same way

[@brianfreeman2200]

We get you. Or I can say I get you. It's annoying as hell others have this whole image of who you are before and after and they can't fully remember at all times that you're hurting and struggling

[@Terkinstein]

When I was 19 and serving in the army, I was walking in an aircraft hangar very swiftly carrying a number of objects in my arms, when a helicopter rotor blade smashed me in the front of my head. I was taken to the hospital where a physician's assistant just poked at my skull bones and sewed up my scalp. They gave me 800 mg Motrin and told me just to go to my barracks room and relax. I never felt the same afterwards I was a squared away soldier with desires to become a pilot. My executive functions were all messed up but at the time I had no idea what even that was. I was basically just a kid. I started having behaviors that I didn't think were bad, but other soldiers begin to make comments on new things I began to do. Things that were just not like me to be doing. After being discharged from the military I found it very difficult to hold a job I have had 34 jobs since I got out and my life has been an incredible roller coaster of emotions and problems. My wife who happened to know me before my head injury, has encouraged me to get with the VA to try to get disability for my injury but I don't know if they will help me I just have to try for my family.

[@Odee_da_kidd]

Damn I feel you I have mild brain damage and life is tough it's hard to hold down a job and people don't get me which also makes me feel some type of way the just think your stupid or something and mistreat you. I don't know what to do these days but just try to keep moving and doing my best in life.

[@bonniey7299]

You served our country, you did your best. And I only think it's fair that our government do its best to make make every effort to see that you get the kind of help you need, it will strive for you to have a much better quality of life. 🌈❤️✝️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌈👍

[@Terkinstein]

@@bonniey7299 thank you

[@dominicmaestas8081]

Your such an inspiration, I recently got diagnosed with CPM (Central pontine mylenosis) . It's been very hard dealing with this ,some days are better than others. Listening to your channel helps me out. And I thank you.

[@osiriswills6749]

This is amazing information. My whole life I noticed something was different about me. Noticed I was different from the other children. At the age of 2 years old I drove my tri cycle down the stairs and banged up my head, directly in the front. I also was hit in the front part of the head with rocks. Feel on my head doing backflips. I had alot of head injurys as a child. Thank you for this information. It found me, and now I know how to go about fixing this issue.

[@TheChosen1406]

I'm so glad I found you. I have had a Brain Tumor removed from my left frontal lobe and an aneurism on my right frontal lobe. You have given hope to function again 🙏🏾

[@BrainRecoveryCoach]

Welcome aboard Scott! Sign up on my website for more tips www.TheTBICoach.com Wishing you well.

[@gull2112]

My TBI is from 1989. I have written quite extensively about living with a TBI. I have never had such a clear definition of the two parts of the brain, and the metaphor of puppet/puppeteer. One good metaphor is more effective than years of study, apparently! ;-)

[@cherihamper4671]

These informative videos really help me understand my husbands issues after having 2 severe strokes. It also helps him understand that what he is going through and feeling.. is completely normal. Thank you!

[@ashleycarr9014]

“You change one part of the brain and the whole thing has to readjust” amen

[@calmfocus4510]

This is an exceptionable and actionable explanation/ overview thank you. So glad meditation was mentioned!

[@vsee2207]

I found some great "sound" youtube videos for brain injuries on " The Sound Healers" channel.

[@bonniesmith-hart3824]

I have a TBI from a car accident 2 yrs ago. This also affected my pituitary gland. I have recently started within the last 6 months treating with Marijuana up until then i feel like my brain was not healing doctors offered me no real releaf. I know i am different now where before that point i didnt see why people were telling me i was different. I now see and feel the difference, such as most say video's as i look completely normal i can relate too, i need counseling for this but as insurance has cut me off after the first yr and no health insurance i can't recieve treatment for this among glasses that help i do use some very good noice canceling headphones i find the biggest help for now i have the glasses with yellow tint that help i cant afford to update them which needed updating 3 months after i got them are 1500 dollars to update. Im at a stand still for treatment. I have a college degree and unable to work lost my health insurance 6 month after accident due to my job terminating me because of not being able to return to work. Im so frustrated with this whole situation totally! I just want to get better but absolutely no resources or the know how. I am screaming for help like im drowning this is not my fault however, everything thus far feels like it is.

[@Joyful_Michelle]

Thanks you for posting. This is very helpful.

[@robertcebelak5591]

I'm a tbi survivor. 30 years post injury. I have important knowledge to share. Make sure if you have tbi to be treated for epilepsy!!! Not all seizures cause loss of consciousness and seizures can happen while you're sleeping. Epilepsy

[@michaeledlin9995]

As you get older does a TBI cause more problems in day to day life. Sometimes I can be on the spot with thinking then again I can go out on a limb that leads to self destruction. It all seems the same at the time but it is not. Never relax , barely sleep more than 5 hours at one time. So many things at one time it is like 4 puzzles being put in one box . Being told to figure it out in the dark.

[@lisajohnson6351]

Maybe start with getting quality sleep. Sleep is when your body repairs itself and lack of sleep can cause major cognitive problems.

[@MrSterling38]

Another thank you (Nathalie & Aaron) for this information!

[@patrickbradley1831]

Thank you so much

[@lastwarpoodle659]

It does not appear you are doing this on you tube anymore. I have spent time looking for information to help me in my recovery from a severe brain injury, how I did not find this sooner I do not know. On March 2017 I was in a car accident on the highway on my way to work. 10 minutes later a semi truck wrecker hit me going 65 mph. My injury is front and back and I am a completely different person. I had to relearn how to read, brush my teeth, brush my hair, eat correctly and deal with the constant flooding of emotions and overload due to the simplest of things. It has been a miserable life since. The case is still not settled, actually returned to work but could not perform even minor work so they found a way to fire me, I had custody of my kids but the ex wife used the injury against me and was given custody, friends avoid me and family even distance themselves. I have sold all I had and nearly starved and had no way to attend therapy til I was approved for disability, If you are beginning recovery, let me tell you your about to face utter hell and you will be very lucky to have any help. It’s a wonder I survived the accident much less being virtually left for dead.

[@user-ld4xb5ns5c]

I'm sorry to hear what you had to go through, I completely agree the first stages in recovery are hell I've been through this and by the end of the recovery everyone seems to leave you

[@siggeboda]

Intersting info! This was about the front of the brain - I would like to see a video on the back of the brain - when you get a hit in occipital region :) Thank you for what you are doing

[@jennys6087]

I wish I learned this sooner about my diet!!!! I would've been off prescription meds ASAP.

[@danashannon8234]

living with these or one with no treatment....its so such a struggle I am understating .

[@stu4556]

This is the hardest thing,,,the brain keeps our soul,,,once you get the injury everything you know disappears,,,you don't feel the effect of time,,,you fear to be around other humans oooh God have mercy!!!

[@menono3420]

Coach I must say your pronunciation is superb! Hahaha I would have struggled with Docs name before cracking my head. Hahaha kudos

[@kaseycesena3430]

Great video in my opinion T.B.I is hard I'm a disabled vet 1st platoon A co 126 l did my rehabilitation in colorado where I learned to walk and most everything again lol unfortunately I get mad easy now and I've known people who didn't make it in Afghanistan I know what anger and hate brings I might sound weird but I get mad with myself at times

[@houstontexas459]

thx

[@fit-juvenate1461]

What about pituitary damage? As it controls all your body's hormone! So the most important part of the brain is the hormonal structures!

[@joannaanuwelfley7655]

Yes ..I am having this problem....my hormones have been off since the moment if my accident...but yet no doctor addresses this...writing me off as oeri menopause ....but I was not having any of those symptoms prior.... I would love to know how to help my 🧠

[@stoplivinginthepast1470]

i didnt have an injury but i believe i dont have enough bloodflow? to my prefrontal cortex. how can i stimulate it. Are there good diets I can try?

[@Skylightatdusk]

Hello, must the trauma need to be physical only? If someone is suffering from traumatic stress issues like long term PTSD for instance, can that trigger or cause EFD? Thanks

[@cadykyst1234]

I am told (8months with PCS), NOT to push retraining my abilities, like to read (I'm in my MFA degree program.) I've been on leave from school for nearly a year with special permission. But I need to go back and study, with graduate level reading. Does the PCS brain respond well or poorly to practicing things that are hard and increase symptoms like ear ringing?

[@tompytunes]

My son has a TBI, vm pfc. He has been and out of prisons and jails and hospitals for over 30 years. I do neurobiofeedback with him when I can. are you aware of any protocols that would address his deficit exactly? he has an excellent memory and is truly a good person, just makes poor decisions due to his TBI. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Tom

[@raftersteve]

What tools? A link to them? I'll buy one right now if I need to.

[@smpotter1387]

2 years since 5 EF disorders diag. insurance issues with SS, and my only support has a full plate and worse. TODAY I finally looked up what the state meant when they said there is no work for me in the contigous US. I tried to share my diag with friends and family a year ago; but they were gone or exciled me since Hunny and I shared the news. now, share this video beyond my better half? IDK @chinookvalley I hear you, feel it too. Keep looking for you. Last week I finally admitted I don't want this body anymore ... I was born with cogenital spine issues as well. I was ok with being para or quad so long as I had my mind !!! I could be like Johnny in the 1970's movie where she gets hurt & is a quad, and becomes a famous artist anyway. I had a plan, before ...

[@lyndihudson7935]

I’ve had several strokes from 28-32, i’m 34 now... my right- cerebellum, parietal, temporal and frontal lobes have brain damage (dead brain). I know this is a non-traumatic brain injury but I find so much more information on TBIs then I do strokes, and how they make us feel even though we may seem “normal”. I wonder if the doctor would consider all effects to be the same no matter how the injury happened (traumatic or not)? Thanks 🙏🏼

[@BrainRecoveryCoach]

All this information is relevant to all brain injuries. They are so similar no matter what causes them.

[@janedoe8566]

I think that’s termed an acquired brain injury or abi.

[@bobguertin6487]

How do I subscribe? I suffered a serious brain injury and this video really made an impact on how I have been feeling and my worries about how my brain injuries may be affecting me today. I was following you on Twitter and saw this video. I suffered a skull fracture in about 5th grade and MANY concussions playing football in high school and college.

[@BrainRecoveryCoach]

Hi Bob, I am so glad you found me! The best thing to do is to sign up on www.TheTBICoach.com and you will get a video sent to you each week. I think you will find so much useful information. Welcome aboard!

[@cadykyst1234]

Bob Guertin , touch arrow on the right below the video. then touch SUBSCRIBE button below the video . When it goes from red to gray, you are subscribed to that persons series of videos.

[@emilys7979]

Are you still a coach? Have you worked with people with cptsd in reaction to their executive functioning injuries?

[@HigherPowerStation]

great video. As a child I was hit by a car and had TBI and today need medication to control seizures. I have a hole in my right frontal lobe, so I am watching your videos to learn. Do you have anything on the frontal lobe injury? I find your videos very useful

[@samsmom400]

Natalie, it was hard for me to keep up with what he was saying, I wish he had talked slower ... but I broke it up in parts and I appreciate what he had to say. Thank you!

[@BrainRecoveryCoach]

I understand. I actually have the same problem when I am interviewing someone. That is part of why video is so important, we can replay it until we've got it! For the future, in the settings under the video, there is a speed adjuster. You can slow it down! How cool is that?

[@samsmom400]

The TBI Coach thank you TBI COACH! I didn't know that.

[@hatsheshupt1]

+The TBI Coach glad I seen this I had the worst cognitive brain injury and I'm struggling so hard. I can receive any service, job help and I'm going to have to rob people just to feed myself

[@kathymacdonald277]

I am Guardian for my 86 year old uncle who was hit by a car and has been diagnosed with a frontal lobe injury. He is paranoid and angry because he wants to handle his own affairs and verbally abuses everyone who tries to help. He does not accept that he has any problem with his brain. It is difficult to get homecare and everyone who deals with him avoids talking to him because nothing ever gets solved. He just wants to fire everyone. Is there any help for this situation? I think I need help too!

[@aminah761]

It’s sooo hard to do everything 🙄🙄 I hate this

[@michaellane8296]

I Get all Fired up" at times' no Freaken Filter' Ive learned how to deal with it some what " but mu Silent Partner is always there some where" WAITING TO COME OUT'

[@janedoe8566]

Me too!! I have such a hard time controlling my thoughts and impulses too.

[@michaellane8296]

@@janedoe8566 not easy

[@michaeledlin9995]

A lot of the times it is not a good outcome.

[@AshsFool]

OMG it's David Ike lol. Just kidding great vid.

[@glendawood8836]

Hello I am Glenda an I had a TB about 2 weeks before my bad stroke the stroke almost killed me. Doctors didn’t think I could make it they had me on life support but God said it’s not my time yet. It has been 4 months since I had it. When I got to the hospital they gave me the shot to thin out my blood I improved 60 percent they said but I remember anything. My life now has changed from working to being lazy. I have no motivation but I do make myself do things around the house. I went from 30 years of working to doing very little. My family says I need to do more. But I don’t have any power to an when I make myself I get shaky and weak. Any advice for this would be appreciated. Thanks

[@travoye98]

Hi! Loved the video and it sparked a question. Can you experience frontal lobe damage from a traumatic event that isn’t physical/external (ex. car crash)??? My sexuality was exposed four years ago and I went on a journey of changing my entire being and I feel a connection to frontal lobe damage, but my frontal lobe wasn’t hit or anything. If it isn’t frontal lobe damage do you have any idea on what I might be experiencing?

[@lisajohnson6351]

Have you considered something like ADHD?

[@nickbrannon5724]

i have tbi i was hit by a tree when i was 5 and tonight i had a date and the left part completely took over

[@003andyt]

Thanks. I feel as if everything I try to do is a failure. The only thing I can manage is growing plants. I have a marijuana grow that's doing very well, but I have a major Green Thumb and could do it in my sleep. My apartment's a mess because I can't decide how to organize it and when I try to get it together I get distracted SO easily. It seems I'm a whole new person that I have to deal with and understand. One doctor did a scan and told me my problems stemmed from me smoking cigarettes. So what the fuck does he know?

[@bonnorbassidy8198]

I have severe adhd and during my sophomore year playing rugby on kickoff I went to make a tackle and the guys knee ended up hitting the top of my dome piece and I was out for idk about 15 seconds till my coaches woke me up and I tried to stand and fell right back down and obviously I had a concussion but the scary thing is as time goes on I’m feeling more disconnected from everyone else and I feel like After that night I’ve been just a totally different person and I have no idea how to explain it besides just that more of the “tv screens” ( that’s what I call my thoughts with adhd) in my head are more blurry and snowy than the ones actually working and idk what to do. It’s been about 6 years now... eyes are WAY more sensative to light than before I get random head aches here n there for like 20-30 seconds that hurt, my short term memory has damn near doubled in how bad it is and I just have a different personality now and part of it is I get frustrated with it and myself and others very very easily and I stress day n night about why I can’t seem to just control my head and do things like I used too. I don’t know exactly what to do as in helpin myself out or finding out what even really happened? I played football and rugby nonstop throught high school too so there’s def other instances where I could’ve received more concussions...

[@bonnorbassidy8198]

Sorry I know it’s kinda a ramble but there’s a perfect picture of my thoughts just fucked and jumbled up 🤭

[@NathalieKelly]

@@bonnorbassidy8198 You CAN get better with effort and the right help. Start here kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5zHkH-tg8-oh9U

[@TobinCarlos]

Is there a study/research on the limit to the number of hyperbaric oxygen chamber therapy sessions a TBI patient can have in one day? In other words, instead of 80 sessions, once per day, over 3 to 4 months, or can one do 4 per day, in one month.

[@yardape99]

You can rent home units a month at a time. A company that offers that service will probably have answers to usage, but basically the home units have oxygen levels that are consistent with being below sea level - - in other words, you can probably use it as much as you like if you rent or buy one.

[@TobinCarlos]

@@yardape99 It sounds like you are referring to mHBOT not HBOT. mHBOT is not hyperbaric. HBOT sessions in much of the world (Mexico City, Indonesia, Egypt, England, etc) for $5 to $20 USD per session.

[@InsightImagingPhoto]

What was the name of the style of meditation mentioned in this video

[@InsightImagingPhoto]

Disregard. Found it

[@BrainRecoveryCoach]

Transcendental Meditation, TM for short.

[@susikadam2230]

my son is suffering fromTBI plz I want to get in touch with u let me know how.plz help a mother to do something for her son. I can't see him suffering

[@BrainRecoveryCoach]

Hi Susi, To get in touch with me, please send me an email to [e-mail]. Thanks!

[@RussCobleigh]

i have a question, i was hit on the head and neck area by an overhead lamp that came loose on the left side, swung down and hit me. my doc only talks about whiplash and refuses to talk about mtbi, others have said un diagnosed anxiety. what am i to do ?

[@BrainRecoveryCoach]

You are not alone. This is the usual response. Seek out the Brain Injury Association in your state and ask them for a recommendation for a dr that gets it.

[@RussCobleigh]

@@BrainRecoveryCoach i am an american in sweden getting no help

[@janegefell6502]

Awesome wonderful great i

[@pantyflash]

Like, even though your brain is hosed, you can go to the toidy and get shit done. You go, girl!

[@vebtinkerbellable]

My injury accured in the back of my brain that is where my bleed was

[@TheForgotme]

I'd like to share this but many of my family is offended by swearing. I wish you'd change it to stuff or things in title

[@kerilyndesiree6188]

i chose this because of the title so you should probably change your beliefs or find another channel.

[@KathyKinrade1959]

Can you tell me what happens to your brain when the trauma has happened to the back of your brain?.

[@O7ghostX]

Oh boi. It's not great I can tell you this. Imagine a video on youtube loading, it plays 15 seconds and then it buffs. Do this process of a couple of hundred times until you reach the end of the video and you've got a back TBI. I can't tell which one is the worse, because although it does not affect my daily life in terms of decision making for instance, everything I undertake whether it is a small task such as answering a simple question to reader seems immensurable. Because you can't do it although you want to, you quickly become frustrated at yourself and your self-esteem dwindles at the speed of light as you start to think of yourself as worthless. I recently wondered if I will be able to take the competitive exam to become a teacher... In conclusion, I'd say as bad as the front TBI

[@garrettauville5690]

I have a TBI which effected almost all areas of my brain, literally had to learn to read and write and function. Only 7 years into it so far and I’m 20 years old. The feeling of not knowing your composition, not remembering who you were and used to be and now ur just a body with unfamiliar voices in your head, voices that are stronger than you- control your body more than you can. You feel so out of touch, every task you start starts 60 other little tasks and all of them dont get finished and ur left at the end of the day remembering 10 of the 60 you didn’t do. You’ll figure out the rest of those tasks at random times you come across, life seemingly never seems to go routinely, every routine you make last’s only 3-4 days because ur jusy distracted and it’s not ur fault, your brain simply doesn’t remember you have a routine and you go one morning w out it then the next and then you wake up 3 weeks later like “what the fuck I had a routine” I’m in real estate now with my traumatic brain injury and trying to get my life in a straight line because I have a baby now too and i can tell you it’s like playing life on veteran level

[@johnlarge7765]

@@O7ghostX my right frontal lobe fracture from a bicycle accident that occurred 22 years ago has turned me into a felon criminal mainly for terroristic threats....impulse control/emotional instability/brain filter....has landed my ass in jail 5 of the last 6 years...7 of the last 13....from a prejudiced court ystem who took my kids cuz of my TBI. frustration/self-esteem ?? you have no fuckin idea how damaged i feel about the many concussions that followed after and continue to break me down, and further distance me from my kids. the words complicated and worthless don't scratch the surface. is one TBI better than another ??? THEY ALL SUCK !!!

[@lanceemilymclaughlin2844]

I a t.b.i . I mess everything up an why I'm so tired all the time

[@RD-ue9wb]

What if you just need help. And can't do it yourself.

[@samsmom400]

.

[@jennys6087]

getting off processed sugars and eating healthier will HELP!!! Try iT. I bet you can't....that's addiction.

[@BrainRecoveryCoach]

Yes, that is absolutely true. Eating an anti-inflammatory diet is crucial to optimizing our brain function. My video interview with Nora Gedgaudas goes into that in really helpful detail. As far as your bet..... I win!! I have had no sugar and very few carbs since last October! As an ex-sugar addict, I am very proud!

[@jennys6087]

Congratulations!! I have to show you a drink I make with Ginger I call Owah. To help with inflammation. ;-}~