Introductory post. A brain injury is much more than an illness. You don't just rest and wake up one day and everything is back to normal. Neural networks are built up through exposure to the environment via the sensory system then processed and stored. You are the accumulation of your experiences, your neural networks. A brain injury damages or destroys many of these networks and by extension damages and destroys your experiences and ultimately affects you as a person. You are different as a person, the feeling that something is missing is strong and can be overwhelming. There is a saying in the brain injury world, "the mourning for the former self", it is a bereavement process. You feel the loss of a person that existed and is no longer here. The irony of this situation, the person is still present in physical form and is mourning the former self. The mourning is for the experiences and neural makeup that has been built up to create that former person. I...
A journey of self discovery. A head and brain injury adventure, more psychological in nature, an understanding of consciousness and self.