Just doing my part to share information about Brain Injury, since March is Brain Injury Awareness Month and my family has been so deeply affected by it.
Traumatic Brain Injury can happen to anyone, anytime. If a TBI has touched you or someone in your life, it will forever be changed.
While someone with a TBI might "look just fine" the long term symptoms of a TBI can effect everyday life. Every TBI is different depending on the areas of the brain injured. Long term symptoms can include:
Cognitive: amnesia, inability to speak or understand, mental confusion, difficulty concentrating, difficulty thinking and understanding, inability to create new memories, or inability to recognize common things, loss of short term or long term memory,
Behavioral: abnormal laughing and crying, aggression, impulsivity, irritability, lack of restraint, or persistent repetition of words or actions, inability to see long term consequences of decisions
Whole body: balance disorder, blackout, dizziness, fainting, or fatigue, vertigo, brain fog,
Mood: anger, anxiety, apathy, or loneliness, depression, isolation, inability to function as before in public settings
Gastrointestinal: nausea or vomiting, trouble with digestion, swallowing, uncontrolled appetite, loss of appetite (often because they forget they have not eaten, or have eaten)
Sensory: loss of smell, taste, touch, increased sensitivity to sound, motion, light
Speech: slurred speech or impaired voice, difficulty with finding the right words, vocabulary
Visual: blurred vision or sensitivity to light, inability to control eye movements
Also common: persistent headache, depression, nerve injury, post-traumatic seizure, ringing in the ears, or stiff muscles, spasms
Any bump to the head, with or without loss of consciousness can cause a TBI. Please, protect yourself and your loved ones, and if a situation occurs that might have caused a TBI no matter how small it might seem, please seek medical attention right away.
The best treatment is prevention. Protect your head! And please, spread the word about Traumatic Brain Injury.
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