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Old 08-31-2011, 03:29 AM
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Default What else are vacations for?

Hi Katie,
Two months is a tiny fraction of your life. Thank goodness that you have been recovering. You mention recovering your personality, being more articulate, thinking more clearly. Great! So, whatever you are doing don't stop! If that is being "on vacation" then stay on vacation as long as you can.

A lot of us are forced back to work before we are really ready for it and that can hinder someone's recovery. If you have the luxury of not having to do this, take full advantage. Two months is nothing if it can make a different to the rest of your life.

You might be feeling improved but I bet that you haven't fully recovered, or else you would be back doing what you were doing before. Your first task is to recover as much as you can. After that, then worry about what you should be doing with your time and talents.

I have a brain injury and I found that starting tasks was particularly difficult; all that organizing was exhausting. The brain is a complex organ, perhaps the most complex thing in the universe, and there are specialist parts involved in motivation and organizing. Perhaps those parts of your brain have not fully recovered. Just them a chance before pushing them to do things that they aren't really ready for. If you don't feel like it then perhaps those feelings are for a reason, namely that you need more time to recover.

So, don't push it when things are going so well.

Best of luck,
Concussed Scientist

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Originally Posted by katie71083 View Post
I've been "on vacation" for two months now. I have been sitting around and doing nothing. It's been amazing, and I feel like a completely different person.

A lot of the "old me" is returning. I am less affected by stimuli, my personality is returning, I can think more clearly, I am more articulate, and life is not as overwhelming - to list a few examples.

My concern is - I still have no impetus to get anything accomplished. This didn't concern me when my other symptoms were in full force. However, now that they are lessening, shouldn't this symptom lesson as well?

Did I somehow develop laziness as part of my character while I was sitting around doing nothing? Am I using PCS as a crutch to not have to do anything?

Why is it still so difficult for me to accomplish anything - even if it's simple and even if it really needs to get done?

Any takes on this?
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