While Richard or others who have shared experiences with TBI certainly are not "medical experts", our experiences with struggling in the aftermath of TBI should be an important part of a conversation.
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It absolutely should be. In fact based on just this information alone one of the biggest differences I see is that Richard + the other guy just posted above you stated they had TBI injuries middle aged and when living with families. Meaning they had someone that always was there, they knew when they were acting "weird" and asking the same questions 2 times in a row vs when the person was normal.
Pretty much the opposite of this situation, so that she wasn't in fact "all in" on cycling or academic; she was "all in" on all of it....That's hugely critical point to understand....So it meant that she was juggling it all and maybe she would have a great day with the cycling team and then a bad day and then a good day. But she likely never had the constant attention from others around her that really could make sure she was ok when the bad episodes were really bad. That's why I as objecting to the blame that was being put on certain parties; I don't think those parties were constant enough in her life at this point in her life for it to be faulted.
ETA: Cus yes educating an injured person that the "bad" feelings you have are normal part of this, but I think if there is no "constant" person to be the person that helps you through the really bad episodes, it's going to be a very very hard process to get over. And like I said when your juggling so many things like she juggled it likely meant in fact she's only around each group a segment of her time and thus more easily can "fall through the cracks".
And keep in mind "brain" injuries are still very new for majority of people. It may be times where the times are good and then suddenly changes at the drop of the hat; unlike injuries we can see like a broken arm or torn ACL...there's pretty much an linear progress for almost all injuries of the body...except the head. My best coaching friend smashed her head in San Fran 2 years ago and she still deals with the injury issues. We'll be talking on the phone and doing simple coaching splits, and she's lost half way through the conversation...this is 2 years later. She had some "dark" episodes and feelings but she's also much older and wiser and accepting of the good/bad episodes all part of the process. This still was a very young and maturing young adult that didn't have the life/mental maturity to always understand this was all part of the process of healing your brain. It sucks it brings back memories of my own best friend who took his life at 22 years old. You just want to replay what you could do to have helped over and over in your head.
Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II
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It absolutely should be. In fact based on just this information alone one of the biggest differences I see is that Richard + the other guy just posted above you stated they had TBI injuries middle aged and when living with families. Meaning they had someone that always was there, they knew when they were acting "weird" and asking the same questions 2 times in a row vs when the person was normal.
Pretty much the opposite of this situation, so that she wasn't in fact "all in" on cycling or academic; she was "all in" on all of it....That's hugely critical point to understand....So it meant that she was juggling it all and maybe she would have a great day with the cycling team and then a bad day and then a good day. But she likely never had the constant attention from others around her that really could make sure she was ok when the bad episodes were really bad. That's why I as objecting to the blame that was being put on certain parties; I don't think those parties were constant enough in her life at this point in her life for it to be faulted.
ETA: Cus yes educating an injured person that the "bad" feelings you have are normal part of this, but I think if there is no "constant" person to be the person that helps you through the really bad episodes, it's going to be a very very hard process to get over. And like I said when your juggling so many things like she juggled it likely meant in fact she's only around each group a segment of her time and thus more easily can "fall through the cracks".
And keep in mind "brain" injuries are still very new for majority of people. It may be times where the times are good and then suddenly changes at the drop of the hat; unlike injuries we can see like a broken arm or torn ACL...there's pretty much an linear progress for almost all injuries of the body...except the head. My best coaching friend smashed her head in San Fran 2 years ago and she still deals with the injury issues. We'll be talking on the phone and doing simple coaching splits, and she's lost half way through the conversation...this is 2 years later. She had some "dark" episodes and feelings but she's also much older and wiser and accepting of the good/bad episodes all part of the process. This still was a very young and maturing young adult that didn't have the life/mental maturity to always understand this was all part of the process of healing your brain. It sucks it brings back memories of my own best friend who took his life at 22 years old. You just want to replay what you could do to have helped over and over in your head.
Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II
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B_Doughtie: Mar 12, 19 9:28