Question:
two months ago I was in a car accident where I sustained what is refered to as a Mild Brain Injury. What they mean by that is that there is no obvious damage, no broken or fractured bones, no cut, etc., but there was enough injury to cause damage to brain cells and nerve transmissions.

The "normal" effects from this can be memory loss, cognative functioning problems, headaches, being very emotional, being short-tempered and stressing out easily, etc. Interestingly, dissociation is also a side-effect from a brain injury.

The cognative therapist has told me that she can't say whether I will get communications going again. She says some people have memory loss that never comes back. But even with that, she says it doesn't mean that the memory cells are gone from damage, just not reachable. She told me about one client who had an injury similar to mine, that had memory loss. She didn't get the memory back. then she came back six months later and had had a second brain injury and with the second brain injury the memory suddenly came back. I told my regular therapist about this and suggested to her that I try another car accident but she didn't think that was too good of an idea.Is there anyone in this group who has had any experience with any of this or who knows anything about it?

Answer: I have also wondered if there was an issue with previous head injuries from when I was younger (although I don't think I have thought to mention it to either of my therapists). I know my head was banged more than once. The cognative therapist has been reading a book I gave her on MPD. She said that her initial reaction to it was noting that there was some very similar characteristics between MPD's and people with mild head injuries. I think that if "they" were to look into the two areas together maybe some new discoveries would come about that would help both sides. The cognative therapist says that if my regular therapist would get the grant she would be willing to do the study work. I'm volunteering to be a lab rat. My regular therapist won't even agree to hit me in the head a few times to see if it helps. You just can't find good help these days