84 ways Concussion/TBI can make your life really interesting
 

http://brokenbrilliant.wordpress.com...y-interesting/

i dont know if i posted the link right. i worked iwth omputers my whole life now i cat put up a link right lol.

it is an interesting article. the one about hearing music that wasn't there made me feel better because this happened to me in the begining ad occasionally now. i know its not real so it's not psychotic. it is quite weird though.

i dont know if i should have posted this ni stickys at top or not. sorry if i should have.

oh yeah at first i heard country/folk, maybe allison kraus or joni mitchell from my air filter and more like club music from my white noise machine. thank god haven't heard those ghosts in a while. didn't hear full lyrics or anything, just a faint melody

i can't believe you did too!!! the first time i heard music that wasn't there was when i was in the psych ward because i couldn't be alone with my head pain anymore. The pain is definitely better and i haven't heard a "song" in a while lol always knew it wasn't real, just annoying.

yeah, i think i'm only now realizing what a bad injury i had/have. kept thinking i'd snap out of it any day. good thing is that hte music would go away when i turned off the machines, so it was like my mind was filling in extra notes but wasn't gonna run off and come up with a whole looney tune on its own

I don't hear nonexistent music, but I used to constantly smell odors that didn't exist. It's been exactly 8 months since my injury, but I still sometimes smell odors that nobody else can smell.

What sucks is that the imaginary odors are incredibly repulsive. I smell things like feces, rotten food, etc. It drives me insane.

The good thing is that there are days when my house is super clean because I scrub it like crazy to get rid of the nasty smells that don't even exist lol.

I wonder what causes that?

I'm not really sure. I can't remember if any of my doctors ever explained why it happens.

I had this symptom, too: "Feeling like you’re observing yourself from afar". I hated that one and am glad it's gone. I also got really confused at first and didn't recognize myself in the mirror.

Oh, and I spent the first few months feeling like I was living in a dream. Like, everything looked like I was dreaming. I don't have the right words to describe this symptom.

It's crazy what a brain injury can do.

I don't think this link is appropriate reading for most NT participants. It creates too much opportunity to focus on every little nit picky symptom.

Broken Brilliant complains about his struggles yet he continues to push the limits with his job. He writes incessantly in his blog. His constant focus on the minor issues is counterproductive in my opinion.

But, that's just my opinion.

For every one person who hates hearing me hash on about "minor details"...
 

... there are plenty more who thank me for putting into words what they experience everyday.

I don't blog for myself, I do it for all of us who have no voice and no visibility.

It's not about self-pity, it's about simply understanding how things are, in order to improve them.

Because they can improve.

Most of us grow up and get past the need to see a therapist every week or two and just learn how to go on living with our struggles. We make changes to the intensity level of our lifestyle/work and thus reduce some of our struggles.