Category: Brain Injury

Being content about my brain injury means that I don’t make the effort to better myself. Most of the time I don’t notice any improvement with my health. I always wonder if the work I do is helpful.

Concentration is the ability to focus on one thought while at the same time excluding unrelated thoughts, feelings or distractions. Concentration is one of many cognitive skills. (Read about cognitive problems after a TBI.)

Sleep is essential for memory, learning, concentration and judgement (the skills I lost in my injury) among other things. (Read about sleep, learning and memory.)
Sleeping difficulties are common with traumatic brain injury survivors.

Reading helps me concentrate. There are studies that say it improves memory as well. (Read about reading for your brain and memory.)
I’m fortunate that my vision was not damaged when I acquired my brain injury and prevent me from reading like some people.

Learning with a Traumatic Brain Injury will be determined by the severity of the injury along with the desire and effort to learn. They seem to be a contradiction since the cognitive skills used for learning (attention, memory, understanding, etc.)

Age regression behaviors were apparent after my brain injury, but I’m not sure when I became aware of them. Like a child I’d learn from watching other people and like an adolescent I thought I new it all and was unsure of everything.