Prompted to look at this again, I couldn’t help but be impressed by how many common effects of brain injuries overlap with problems I already had to varying degrees.
I am not so big on the grief model used here, and prefer to think in terms of adjusting to changes. But, I did find this helpful when I was trying to learn more as an adult about an injury in my teens that just never got addressed then.
That was from postsurgical intracranial swelling. I was on heavy doses of steroids for months, to try to minimize the damage. Of course there was some, before they even noticed the problem. But, nobody wanted to admit the obvious. I didn’t have a spectacular knock to the noggin, or obvious alarming aphasia or anything like that, so yeah. I can sort of understand why some medical professionals might have been concerned about liability if they even admitted there was a problem, but my parents didn’t have that excuse (however shitty).
All too often, loved ones say things like “Control yourself”, or “Think how lucky you are to be alive”.
They may mean well, but statements like these only perpetuate grief.
Or at least make it a lot harder to come to terms with the changes, or get any kind of help/accommodations in doing so. The second there was the kind of response I kept getting if I mentioned any concerns about what was going on: denial. And some symptoms getting treated as psych problems. (With some meds making the situation a lot worse for someone already dealing with cognitive problems.) Also a decent bit of impatience, and sniping over things I really could not help. Some of those are continuing effects, not surprisingly.
I mean, it’s kind of weird needing to try to come to grips with something you’ve actually been living with for that long, as sort of the proverbial elephant in the living room. It’s still hard to sort out how much of which difficulties might be coming from what, maybe especially after this long. But, looking into it some did help me feel better, even if that did start over a decade after the fact.
And I’m at least clearer now that I really cannot magically make these problems go away through trying harder or finding the perfect antidepressant or whatever. Same goes for whatever that extra layer of problems got laid on top of. Them’s the breaks.
Amusingly enough, I was looking for this maybe a couple of weeks ago, and it just got another note.
America will do anything to maintain their prison population! Prisons
are traded on the Stock Exchange! Incarceration is the new SLAVERY!
I am at a loss for words to be honest lol.
this is literally what they did to create the crack game in LA. If you read Ricky freeway Ross book he says the police and CIA packed up train cars full of guns and left them parked right beside the tracks in Compton. They knew the people in Compton investigated the trains and train tracks. This was exactly the same scenario and now we know why entrapment work so well. People are needy and when they see things that appear to be free they will take them if they need them. these are poor kids therefore a class action suit would seem to be in order against the police for utilizing this sort of entrapment and deception with intention to create criminal cases that they manufactured with false bait.
This is why that TV show where they had cars wired for people to steal them didn’t stay on television very long. because lawyers and other people saw through the scenario and quickly made sure that this type of trap was never laid so openly again. Now we see Chicago utilizing it and we already know Chicago has lots of problems with guns and violence. I think people in Chicago need to step up and hold the police responsible for this and do not let them get away. This is the type of case that should be taken in federal court because no one should ever be entrapped in the name of the law
Watch For Yourself – This is a REPEAT of a generational plot
So I used to make this joke all the time. Now I have chronic tinnitus. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s nerve damage in your ears which often comes as a result of being constantly exposed to very loud noise for a long period of time. The nerve damage results in a constant ringing/buzzing in your ears. So far there’s no cure. The severity of it varies, and I’m lucky to have a mild case, which I can barely hear during the day and is easy to block out at night. That said, loads of people with tinnitus aren’t so lucky. Severe tinnitus can’t be blocked out. Those who suffer from it also suffer from severe loss of sleep, depression, anxiety…. the list goes on. Tinnitus also comes with a degree of hearing loss in most cases, making it even harder to ignore. In fact, some people with severe tinnitus kill themselves just to make the ringing stop. Tinnitus can be so severe that it drives a person to suicide. Chronic tinnitus used to mostly be prevalent in older people who worked for years with loud machinery etc, but all of a sudden it’s becoming more common in our generation. Why? Because of people, like me, who listened to their music too goddamn loudly through their headphones.
Deaf by the time you’re 20? Please. That’s the least of your worries.
Please reblog. This post reminded me to move my music further away and turn it down. Someone else may need to be more cautious of their shit too.
Chronic mild tinnitus here, too, due to too many metal concerts in my youth. Turn your headphones down a little. Wear earplugs at concerts. Protect your ears.
Your eyes have an iris that can shrink down, and eyelids that can squint shut, to protect them from light that is too bright. Your ears have NOTHING to block out sounds that are too loud. It’s up to you.
Tinnitus sufferer from drumline in high school checking in. These days I wear earplugs at concerts, rehearsals, clubs, and even movies sometimes. Get yourself a set that look like these ones:
Etymotics Research was one of the first companies I’m aware of to widely market with this
sort of ear plug, and they’re great, because they reduce noise fairly
evenly across the spectrum, and so you hear everything accurately, just
quieter. While they’re certainly more expensive than the foam earplugs
that you see everywhere, they also are washable and last for months and
months, and sound great, if not better than without for live music. Please protect your ears. There is no way to recover lost
hearing.
Apparently I had this. I just thought silence was a ringing sound
you also might have even been “born” with this. a lot of people with sensory issues (especially autistic or ADD/ADHD people) experience this when it’s silent around them but havent actually hurt their ears with music at all.
so its also a sensory processing thing and you can be “born” with it (aka develop with it in childhood) like i have
My family kinda laughs at how low I keep my headphones, but if they are any higher it triggers the ringing for me.
A reminder with this article: an overwhelming amount of these superfunded military bases are located near homes of indigenous people and people of color. This shit is not only harmful to the environment, it is strategically placed near populations our country’s leaders value as less than the rest.
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