Severe head injury over 12 years ago now, I think.
Long proven that the 2 year window that doctors give for any healing to happen is utterly and completely wrong.
Did’t start sleeping more than 2 hours at a time until the 5th year. BTW, the sleep-wake cycle is incredibly complex, i didn’t know until i read about it to understand what was wrong. I NEVER thought i would sleep 7 hours again. But the Brain FIGURES OUT A WAY.
Relations with wife weren’t possible until after 4 years (we’re all adults here :) ) Which means some part of the limbic system either rewired or repaired, I’m guessing.
Surreal feeling like left side of head was going to just fall off took 6 years to go away.
Took 4 years to get typing from 19 wpm back to 100wpm.
What is the HARD part about a brain injury is the headaches, and the tremors, and the pain elsewhere, and the night terrors occasionally...all caused by DAMAGED cells and Scientists ARE working now to SHUT THOSE DOWN so the suffering they cause ends.
The money to house and feed and educate illegals could partially go towards finding answers and finding them faster for or 100,000 brain injured vets who are living, along with their families, a lifetime of hell.
and many of their injuries make mine look like a walk in the park.
BTW, I was on SSDI for SIX years and it was All Healing time. The last few years on it towards the end weren’t because I liked living off of 2600 dollars a month (SSDI max) compared to what I was making before that.
I am thankful it was there, but I would guesstimate 30 percent don’t belong on it.
Working, I think, 6 years now. Memory isn’t what it was because before all this i wouldn’t be unsure of how long I was working somewhere!
But I will take what God gave me back!!
Once a very young person has aged beyond a certain threshold for “Plasticity” it is gone. I am convinced that a severe concussion can disrupt the hypothalamic pituitary axis and produce all the symptoms you describe. Since many of these functions are not strictly “neuronal” but rather “micro hormonal” there probably is some recovery and even at lower levels receptor supersensitivty may actually result in fairly normal function. Just guessing. But in the sense of “healing” the Central Nervous System is extremely limited in what it can do.
I know when I quit drinking, I had a lot of headaches and foggy-headedness. I read somewhere that the headaches, etc. were the result of the brain's getting used to being normal and healthy again...neurotransmitters getting used to releasing serotonin and other good chemicals when THEY thought the time was right, instead of me forcing their release with alcohol.
As the headaches went away, my mood just got better and better...all on its own. And my thinking got clearer and memory better.
Funny how the brain has all these healing powers.