Anyone else with literal brain damage here? Bonus points for secondary TBI (stroke, hemmorhage etc...

Why at such a young age, and do you remember your childhood?

Tbh there are massive leaps happening in medicine constantly so there's always hope, even for those of us with fucked up brains. Who knows, a decade from now they might be able to inject some stem cells in and return it to something close to 100% capacity.

The conspiracy theorist in me believes that they have this kind of technology already but are withholding it from the wider public.

For now, there isn't much that can be done. The brain is notoriously shit at healing after injury. It can adapt and make attempts at rewiring itself but as a rule, once it's damaged, it's forever. I would suggest supplementing with copious amounts of fish oil daily - there's some evidence to suggest that it may even repair damage but I don't think it's conclusive (just don't take so much that it gives you diarrhea or gives you a rash), exercise, and keep a healthy diet. Avoid all depressants, and use stimulants wherever appropriate. Caffeine is good if you can tolerate it. I smoke and it makes me feel a little more "switched on" since nicotine is a stimulant, but I don't recommend you taking up smoking for obvious reasons. However you should look into nicotine patches (seriously).

I tried nootropics but had no joy with them. Perhaps they are worthwhile if you have a healthy brain but if it's damaged I don't think they can do much to improve cognition.

4 concussions here, worst was after a car accident. AMA i guess
screens were a big problem for me, I spent over a year without any screens at all. still have to limit my use and I use special filters on the screen

memory was noticably damaged. I had near photographic memory as a kid, after I could barely remember 3 numbers in my head at the same time

im pretty sure im going to develop CTE or dementia when im older. used to scare me but now idc

you dont remember what you dont forget user

what you forgot user*
baka i guess this is some proof that this isnt a larp

Failed suicide attempt. The compressed arteries in my neck put severe stress on the blood vessels in my brain which resulted in a stroke-like brain injury.
I remember everything before the injury very clearly. Had absolutely no problems remembering family, friends, my address, even my phone number. My general knowledge is still fairly good because I loved to read before and I have retained almost all of it. Learning new information is a real fucking pain in the ass though. I'll have to repeat shit to myself for hours and read it again and again for it to sink in.
My motor functions survived completely unaffected so I guess there's that

The brain is fucking weird. When something like this happens it's a crapshoot as to how it will effect you. Some people go blind from strokes. I mean it could've been a lot worse but I still feel hard done by.

Longterm memory is good, but short term is garbage. Often forget what I'm doing while I'm in the middle of doing it

I remain optimistic about the brain's neuroplastic capabilities, even though I don't recall large chunks of my life beyond the essence of what happened and a rough time frame it's not too much of a setback surprisingly, if you focus intently and write shit down that you need to recall the information does stick generally speaking, it's just a lot of people get mired in their disabilities which prevents them from overcoming the brain injuries
however if the part of your lobe responsible for motivation is fucked that's a lot worse

>however if the part of your lobe responsible for motivation is fucked that's a lot worse
Apparently the dopamine receptors are particularly sensitive to certain types of brain injury (such as hypoxia) and once they are blown out it's pretty much game over. Think of the lowest day you've ever had where you can think nothing but "what is the point of anything" all day, getting out of bed feels like climbing Everest, multiply that by 100, then make it forever.
That's the life of someone with fried D2R receptors
Little known fact, people think that a lot of heroin users kill themselves after coming off the drug because they can't handle the withdrawals or can't handle "living without it". In reality it's because they fucked their dopamine receptors and literally cannot feel excited or motivated for anything in life. They could win the lottery and it would mean nothing to them.

Is disability payment an easy thing to claim and recieve with with such ailments?

at least you can freak people out by stretching your skin user

stroke, hemmorhage, etc are not secondary tbi. they are just brain injuries, there is no trauma.

yeah, there are perks like looking ten years younger than I actually am and some cool party tricks I can do with my joints but the going mortality rate doesn't exactly improve my attitude about it
this makes perfect sense, I heard one of the key contributors in Robin William's death was that he was missing like 50% of his normal dopamine levels which is fucking ridiculous

had brain cancer two years ago and they had to fuck around with my temporal lobe. had a stroke after my third surgery (black dot on the left) and it left me half blind

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>Mr. Brain Seizure
You have a pretty good supervillain name desu

bomping thread with a picture of me pre-op. different mri stain so its a different color

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less damage, more underdevelopment, though ive gotten three concussions
shitty frontal lobe, pretty much cant form routines/habits among other things

Do you look and "act" younger than your age? How do you manage to get by?

my mother dropped me on my head when I was a baby

literally