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Old 05-22-2009, 12:58 AM
Mark in Idaho Mark in Idaho is offline
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Default Healthy living

The best thing you can do now is to try to live a healthy lifestyle. No alcohol, good sleep, no partying, minimize stress, minimize the risk of a second impact, good nutrition, vitamin supplements, especially those designed for stress.

You might want to get your hormone levels checked. At your age, hormones systems are still changing. A brain injury can effect how your body regulates hormones. Your brain is going through an intense period of maturing. It needs you to help it grow and mature despite your past trauma.

The care you give your brain now will pay off for the rest of your life. There are parts of the brain that only grow and mature during the 10 to 25 year old years. If your brain is struggling to deal with the head injury, it can be too taxed to do the maturing that you need it to do.

I know two people who had serious neurological issues during the teen years and are dealing with 30 year old brains that have left them with under-developed judgment and other maturity issues.
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