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rategies fatigue head injury head trauma insomnia irritability mental health mild traumatic brain injury mtbi personal experiences with tbi self image sense of self sleep sleep deprivation sports concussion stress tbi tbi education tbi rehab tbi symptoms temper thoughts traumatic brain injury tags brain injury concussion fatigue mild traumatic brain injury mtbi recovery rest sleep tbi 1 comment on wow i actually got some sleep last night it feels so good to sleep this pandemic has been messing with my sleep i don t get a solid 7 8 hours each night like i used to now i m lucky to get 6 but now that i m working from home i can take naps in the afternoon so that s what i ve been doing thomas edison hours sleep 4 hours get up and work like a crazy person for 3 4 hours sleep 4 hours then get up and work like a fiend there are worse things i suppose i ve also taken to just lying down and sleeping as early as i like i nap a few hours after supper then get up and shut the lights out and go to bed and it feels so good to sleep it s the only break i get these days and i need a break share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading author brokenbrilliant posted on august 10 2020 categories personal experiences with tbi tags brain exhaustion fatigue job life recovery rest sleep sleep deprivation tbi tbi recovery thoughts work leave a comment on it feels so good to sleep the really stupid thing that got me back on this blog last week i was on a call with a life coach who was pitching their neuro based approach to peak performance they re a trained neuropsychologist and they had a handful of ways to hack the brain so you can basically flip the switch on your success super charge it turn it on in ways that we usually instinctively turn it off okay great i m always up for ways to do that i ve been doing it myself for years using neuropsychological principles but a couple things jumped out at me during that call that seemed really really stupid and i don t mean stupid in a way that belittles people with cognitive difficulties i mean it in the way that professionally trained people who should know better are leading people down a path that goes directly against what they should know due to their professional training before i go on let me say that one of the things that discouraged me from keeping up this blog has been all the professional input about concussions over the past several years that has not helped there s a whole concussion industry that s giving people really mixed messages from people who have never sustained mtbis or other sorts of brain injuries that they re admitting anyway and it s made it all the harder to have a conversation about what mtbi is how it affects you and what you can actually do about it i mean i just don t know where to start more on that later let s get back to the professional stupidity okay so i was on this call and the neuropsych was telling people that we can turn our lives around by breaking mental barriers find something that you re afraid to do and do it over and over and over again using exposure therapy address your core beliefs about who you are and what you think you can do overcome those beliefs by not telling yourself over and over that you can t do something use visualizations to pre wire your system for success and get comfortable with uncertainty all sorts of alarms went off with me on this especially because the person talking admitted to having been very close with someone who had sustained a tbi years before they met them and they had ignored the warning signs of suicidal thoughts they d even encouraged them to just take some anti depressant meds the very same meds which will set off someone with a history of tbi long story short just after they told their friend to take some meds that friend killed themself traumatic to be sure and just as traumatic was the idea that someone who was trained as a neuropsychologist was telling someone to do something take meds that even i from passing conversations with a neuropsych know can be hugely problematic for a brain injury survivor not only that but this person was positioning themself as an expert in brain topics immediately after revealing this massive tell about just how clueless they were are um okay and then they proceed to talk about how doing things like facing your fears visualizing and self talk will get you on the right track and turn your life around well okay so for a lot of people it will do that but for someone with underlying physiological neurological issues e g someone whose wiring has been rearranged by concussion traumatic brain injury those things will only go so far it would have been much more helpful if they d called out the fact that people with organic physiological brain issues operate by different rules and we have to live by those rules day after day if we re going to be able to do things like visualize and self talk our way to success things like get enough sleep drink enough water stay hydrated get regular exercise find ways to calm down the over active and easily amped up system keep your blood sugar steady by eating decent meals regularly and stay away from junk food have a daily routine that reinforces your understanding of who you are and what you can reasonably expect of yourself day after day if we tbi survivors don t take care of the basics food water sleep routine nothing else is worth much at all and my heart aches for all the people like me out there who are being told each and every day that their failures are due to bad messages they re giving themselves or letting their fear run their lives i think it was such a waste for the neuropsych s friend to lose their life in part because of the terrible advice that they should have known better than to give i also get so sick and tired of people lecturing me us about how we just need to get our attitudes aligned with the right sort of mentality and then our lives will dramatically change for the better never mind the underlying issues with fatigue and irritability and not knowing what the h ll to expect from ourselves and our systems from moment to moment because our brain injury has turned us into someone we don t recognize anymore we re being blamed for results that stem directly from our organic physiological situation without anyone even admitting that getting your wires crossed by a car accident a fall an assault or a tackle gone wrong can and does have an effect on your brain s function now don t get me wrong i do believe that pretty much all of us spend way too much time being afraid and telling ourselves the wrong things about ourselves and our chances we don t do enough of the kinds of things that can and will make us successful and we generally don t have the right mentality that sets us up for success but none of those performance enhancement approaches are going to get much traction if we don t address the physical facts of our neurological situation failure is not all in our minds it s also in our brains and until we learn to support heal our brains and do the things we need to do regularly routinely predictably all the self talk in the world isn t going to be much help at all until we get ourselves on a good schedule and stay there eat the right foods for us drink enough water exercise on a regular basis and get decent amounts of sleep on a regular basis until we develop a new sense of self that tells us who we are and what we can expect from ourselves until we redefine ourselves in ways that are solid and predictable those mentality tactics are just going to be all in someone s mind and the fact that a neuropsychologist was spouting all this stuff without prefacing their talk with a disclaimer well that just pisses me off if they d said something like what i m about to share is intended for people without underlying neurological issues some of which may have been sustained a long time ago but are still having an impact in you life it would have set much better with me but they didn t so there we are oh well it s a beautiful sunday and i have another 24 hours till i have to be on for work again so i might as well enjoy myself this isn t the first time this sort of professional stupidity took the steering wheel and it certainly won t be the last life goes on so onward share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading author brokenbrilliant posted on august 9 2020 categories agitation brain brain injury brain injury rehabilitation central nervous system concussion coping strategies emotional volatility exercise guided imagery head injury head trauma mental health mild traumatic brain injury mtbi neurology neuropsychological effects of tbi neuropsychologist neuroscience nutrition personal experiences with tbi self awareness self esteem self image sense of self sleep sleep deprivation sports concussion sports injury tbi tbi education tbi rehab tbi symptoms thoughts traumatic brain injury writing tags acquired brain injury brain brain injury cognitive behavioral issues concussion coping strategies fatigue head injury head trauma irritability life mild traumatic brain injury neuropsychological effects of tbi personal experiences with tbi recovery rehabilitation self improvement tbi rehab tbi survivor tbi symptoms thoughts traumatic brain injury 8 comments on the really stupid thing that got me back on this blog sleep helps everything like most people i ve been quarantined more quarantined than most my spouse is declining in their mental and physical health and i m frankly not sure how much longer they have could be weeks could be months could be years i just don t know and they re not very forthcoming about what is really going on with them so it s well nigh impossible to tell what the deal is with them well anyway all the heartbreak gets exhausting to think about and talk about so i won t not now i ve been pretty stressed out over a lot of things in my life the job the house the spouse the covid 19 situation now i wouldn t say i ve been stressed out about everything in the typical way a lot of people are let s just say it s been more to deal with and adding all the hypervigilance the masks and gloves and social conflict around it well that s just been overwhelming not because i m terrified of getting covid i m not in fact i suspect i may have had it over the winter before it became a thing i had this really persistent cough my chest felt like it was getting tighter every day i didn t have a fever but i felt like i d been beaten with a stick and it lasted longer than other bugs i ve had it just felt different like some weird foreign entity had taken up residence in my lungs there were times it got a little scary but i did breathing exercises to open up my lungs and over time they stopped feeling so constricted and i got a break from it all eventually it resolved so that s a plus the thing is i still have issues with my breathing when i get really tired my lungs feel like they re shrinking and i have to cough to catch my breath this is when i m tired so tired and i m behind on my sleep when i rest and do my breathing exercises i get better but the breathing problems is a sure sign that i am over tired and i need to do something about it which is good because not getting sleep is a killer for me a tired brain is an agitated brain and there you go agitated difficult to live with and me trying to stay calm and collected with a spouse who s increasingly erratic emotional anxious and volatile well it is what it is i know i can t get any help from the medical establishment because a they don t understand my mtbi situation and b they re all busy with covid patients and extreme cases who have waited till they re almost dead before they show up at urgent care or the er looking for help even if they were available they couldn t help me because they just can t they won t they don t think there s anything up with me other than me looking for attention from authority figures so i don t bother and i get on with my life i notice the signs i take action i watch to see how it works out and if i need to adapt i do and that s about all any of us can do i need a haircut maybe next decade i ll get one share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading author brokenbrilliant posted on august 8 2020 categories brain injury head injury head trauma mild traumatic brain injury mtbi personal experiences with tbi tbi tbi education tbi symptoms traumatic brain injury tags concussion mtbi recovery rest sleep tbi thoughts writing leave a comment on sleep helps everything still here yep i m still here funny thing it appears i ve posted with that title before so this must be a pattern life has been extremely busy for the past year which is about how long i haven t posted i got really busy with some extra business activities and i also had a bit of family and workplace drama basically i ve been quite over worked and my spouse has been having health issues as well so i ve had to cut back on pretty much everything that isn t survival related i also kind of fell out of touch with the tbi recovery scene in all candor i got really tired of hearing the same kinds of breakthroughs from all the marketers and i also got tired of hearing people go on and on about things they don t personally know about particularly medical experts talking about what tbi concussion is all about and how to handle it it s one thing to research something and or learn about it in class it s another to live the recovery i ve done the latter and a bit of the former but bottom line i got tired of how much of a business concussion has become i suppose it was inevitable considering how much money there is to be made but still well people will do what they ll do i can t lose too much sleep over that if i did i d never sleep and i have enough trouble sleeping as it is speaking of which i just got back from our annual pilgrimage to the beach for my spouse s birthday the in laws came along this time as well as another friend of mine that was a total bust not a good use of time they were all so set in their ways and so judgmental there was no freedom to do what we wanted to do in they way we wanted to do it we had to constantly deal with their criticism and drama they got all freaked out over how we did things d...