When a brain injury doesn’t end your loved one’s life, but changes the way you are forever, we face one of life’s most difficult paradoxes: the fact that the person is physically present, but is no longer the same. . Modificado. No only in relation to physical disability that usually accompanies cases of head trauma, but also in relation to the personality change it causes.
How can we explain that a certain person is always present in our lives, but has become one?Strange? For us? He often becomes a different person than he was before. Modifié. Sa way of being has other colors and other intensity. He who was a sociable being par excellence no longer has this initiative and is apathetic. One part of us recognizes it, another part of us doesn’t.
- For example.
- Someone who was now polite and respectful.
- As a result of brain damage.
- Is no longer educated and respectful.
- The brain is the social norms button.
- We no longer have the filter that society requires us to have in certain situations.
- There is no self-control and anyone who does not know that the person has suffered an injury will think that he is rude and rude.
People with brain injuries are often not as aware of the impact this has on their own lives as family members, a brain injury sometimes leads to this paradox, it may even sound like a defense mechanism so that the consequences of what the person has suffered don’t bother them as much.
The fact is that this mechanism exists. This is the pathological situation of people who have suffered a brain injury and end up with neurological (cognitive) problems, but who are unaware of the difficulties these problems cause. Is this phenomenon called? Anosognosia ?, and refers to patients who do not notice their neurological functional deficits.
That is, there is a certain inability to be aware of the consequences of harm suffered by the person, cognitively, physically or behaviorally. These patients often ignore their attention issues or explosive reactions, there are cases where patients can’t walk again and think it’s because ‘someone doesn’t leave them’, they don’t know that this is due to the injury they suffered and they left. them in this situation.
All of this causes feelings of helplessness and frustration in the families of these people, it is not only that the person is no longer the same, but does not even realize, this change is a duel in life for the other people around you. Assuming that this beloved is still alive, but he is no longer the same as before (his way of being and being in the world has changed) is one of the most difficult tasks that the father of the brain- the damaged patient must face.
This causes a change in the family system. The puzzle explodes and the pieces fly away. Now we must put everything back in place, with a new order that gives meaning to this sudden chaos. Will feelings arise that will disturb us, such as envy, disappointment, uncertainty?Guilt, countless conflicting feelings seem to help us cope with the loss we’re experiencing and trying to understand.
That is why it is always important to emphasize that head trauma is an event that affects all the people who relate to those who have suffered it, it is a duel of life and life, it is important to share all these feelings found in order to recover and better help this beloved. Replace the pieces, adapt them in a new way that gives it a new meaning?It is an admirable exercise in courage and wisdom taught to us by the families who are going through this.
From this text, we send all our support to these families involved in cases of head trauma.