My New Brain
 

Hey! I found this documentary which.. I'm not sure how many people will be able to access.. but if you can, if you can, it's probably worth watching. (And it's not too long!)

It's about a 20 year old man who fell off of a wall while clubbing and landed on his head, he was in a coma for 5 weeks. I actually found it hard to watch.. not just because I struggle to watch tv anyway, but because it was so moving and too close to home. I'd mostly recommend getting people who don't fully understand your TBI/PCS to watch it. Maybe then, they'd see how you're affected.. and doctors also talk on it.. So they'd get some informative knowledge from people who actually understand.

People in the UK should certainly be able to view it, however, I'm not sure about those of us who live in America.. Apologises if you can't..

All The Best

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/my-new-brain/4od

Hi ClumsyCharlie,

Thanks for posting it, I keep getting an error saying the service is not available in my area?......maybe I'm doing something wrong.

I know some of the staff in that place, one of whom was in the programme!

Seems a very good rehab place, good programme too.

This program is only available to be watched on computers that reside in England or Ireland. These limits are usually due to copyright limitations. The Lancet (British Medical Journal) sometimes uses similar restrictions.

Oh.. sorry.. I feared that might be the case..
Here's the information on the documentary if anyone is interested.

Each year in Britain, 135,000 people end up in hospital with a traumatic brain injury. Most at risk are young men, and the effects, though often hidden, can be profound and life-changing for the people affected, as well as their families and friends.

This powerful and moving Cutting Edge film follows 20-year-old Simon Hales on a remarkable journey through rehab, as he and his family come to terms with the challenges of life after brain injury.

A popular undergraduate at Newcastle University, Simon was on a night out when he and a friend tried to climb back into a nightclub they'd been thrown out of by mistake.

In the dark, Simon fell 20 feet and landed on his head, suffering a severe brain injury. He was lucky to survive, but it took Simon five weeks to wake from his coma.

Simon may look more or less 'fixed' on the outside - he is walking and talking relatively normally - but on the inside he is battling with a new and less compliant brain. And his family wants to know when they will get the 'old' Simon back. But nobody can say - with brain injury, the doctors just don't know.

My New Brain follows the progress and the struggles Simon and his family face as he's treated in a brain injury rehabilitation unit and begins his first visits home.

As well as remembering nothing of the accident, or the weeks and months before, Simon needs constant attention; his mood swings violently and his mum, Jane, says it's like having a toddler all over again, but in the body of a 20-year-old.

SERIES SYNOPSIS
Cutting Edge follows 20-year-old Simon Hales on a remarkable journey through rehab, as he and his family come to terms with the challenges of life after brain injury.

The YouTube video series "You Look Great" addresses similar issues. It can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Xso...ature=youtu.be

It is 6 segments that take about an hour in total.

I think a lot of people can more easily understand how profound a severe traumatic brain injury can be, but I personally think that more needs to be said and done about mild traumatic brain injury.

I'm just starting a new book, called Brainlash, that is written by a PHD who had to recover from a mTBI and she agrees.

She wrote that she is classified in the "higher functioning, minimal loss" category of brain injury and that it discounts her loss. And that her loss is HUGE to her, but that to the medical field, it's not so much.

I think many of us can relate to that.