Brain InjurytrustpectsNovember 18 2010, 03:55:34 UTC
I can relate to your post on the brain injury community page. When I woke up from my coma, it didn't take long for me to pull out all the iv needles, jump out of the hospital bed, and try to escape. When they tied me down, I untied myself.
What are your ramifications of the TBI now?
I received TBI at age 17. Am now 35. TBI caused retrograde amnesia.
Post-TBI IQ Test results: excellent understanding of social norms, superb short/long-term memory for verbal and numerical info, superb processing speeds. Poor mathematical skills, attention difficulties for prolonged focus of visual data, impulsive and inaccurate decision-making when attention is tired, difficulty changing focus on to something new.
TBI long-term affects I'm currently working to heal from or work-around: - Problems changing focus causes me to leave non-essential items (umbrella, book, etc) behind upon going from one environment to another (ie: leaving restaurant w friends to go home) - Problems recalling new focus (ie: get up to read mail, get up to make phone call) when switching from one to another (break from work for another relaxing or essential activity) - Problems with interpersonal conflicts; problems changing focus combined with strong processing speeds makes me ruminate/obsess and get pushy towards the other person to resolve the conflict with me - Excellent understanding of social norms combined with long memory (not for data pre-retrograde amnesia) and quick processing speeds makes it easy for me to pick up on inconsistent behavior or behavior falling outside social norms. But my problem changing focus impedes my ability to allow behavior I find suspicious time to reveal itself as reason I should avoid the person I find is behaving suspiciously, or not. Thus, I tend to push people away I might not need to without giving them a fair chance to prove trustworthy or not.
I look forward to assisting one another in our post-TBI journeys. I just recently realized the ramifications of my IQ test and hope it helps others with their realizations. It's taken me awhile to come to these realizations because my healing was rushed due to pressures of getting into college, graduating, getting a job, keeping a job, etc.
What are your ramifications of the TBI now?
I received TBI at age 17. Am now 35. TBI caused retrograde amnesia.
Post-TBI IQ Test results: excellent understanding of social norms, superb short/long-term memory for verbal and numerical info, superb processing speeds. Poor mathematical skills, attention difficulties for prolonged focus of visual data, impulsive and inaccurate decision-making when attention is tired, difficulty changing focus on to something new.
TBI long-term affects I'm currently working to heal from or work-around:
- Problems changing focus causes me to leave non-essential items (umbrella, book, etc) behind upon going from one environment to another (ie: leaving restaurant w friends to go home)
- Problems recalling new focus (ie: get up to read mail, get up to make phone call) when switching from one to another (break from work for another relaxing or essential activity)
- Problems with interpersonal conflicts; problems changing focus combined with strong processing speeds makes me ruminate/obsess and get pushy towards the other person to resolve the conflict with me
- Excellent understanding of social norms combined with long memory (not for data pre-retrograde amnesia) and quick processing speeds makes it easy for me to pick up on inconsistent behavior or behavior falling outside social norms. But my problem changing focus impedes my ability to allow behavior I find suspicious time to reveal itself as reason I should avoid the person I find is behaving suspiciously, or not. Thus, I tend to push people away I might not need to without giving them a fair chance to prove trustworthy or not.
I look forward to assisting one another in our post-TBI journeys. I just recently realized the ramifications of my IQ test and hope it helps others with their realizations. It's taken me awhile to come to these realizations because my healing was rushed due to pressures of getting into college, graduating, getting a job, keeping a job, etc.
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