Psychology Today - Concussion Types
- A Concussion Diagnosis Is Impossible to Understand
- The Ugly Truth of a Woman’s Concussion
- CTE: Mysterious Syndrome or Untreated Brain Injury?
“Early in March 2001, my psychologist sat me down to tell me gently that my brain had plateaued. This is my life.”
Receiving a diagnosis of concussion doesn’t prepare you for how much your life will change.
Not just your own life, but the lives of the people around you as they grapple with the new person that’s suddenly replaced the one that they had loved for many years. Going to rehab, understanding the diagnosis, doing the homework, trying to perceive where the brain injury and recovery will take you, consumes the mind and life of the injured person. They cannot help the people around them cope with the changes. I wrote Concussion Is Brain Injury: Treating the Neurons and Me to share what the diagnosis really means and how to repair the injured brain. The early years are in a sense the toughest yet the easiest because you don’t know what lies ahead, only the present moment.
