Interview and Q&A: My Beautiful Broken Brain | Lotje Sodderland 

She has so much charm and people close to her are very blessed to be part of her life. She exults happiness and love. I'm totally overwhelmed by her personality and can't stop watching everything available about her. Hopefully she'll write a book about her experience.

Lotje has done so much to help stroke victims so they don't continue being victims. Her film allows people to understand what the life is like after stroke and how to make the best from the new life. She's helped neuroscience to make progress in that area.

It is truly amazing to listen to Lotje!

I'd never heard of this incredible story! Then again, there's a lot of grave illnesses out there making so many suffer. She's such a great soul! I just watched her documentary. It was very interesting! She's such a bright light ; she may remain happy by helping others and seeing life thro children's eyes sometimes and adult eyes 👀, probably back and forth. Love this woman. Hope she's much better by now! Peace!

i will buy this movie soon...I had a stroke in August of last year and its a minor one..physically i wasnt harm but a little mentally different..its like i think faster than I react...and commumicate now...the physicians do not know how or why it happened which stresses me out but it couldve been worse ..This lady is my hero

my beautiful broken brain is very accurate Lotje is spot on in regard to "recovery".I had a stroke 11th Jan 2017 and of all the squillions of links and articles concerning strokes her film and comments are the only ones that resonate with me.

I wondered whether she was given the chemical that begins with T, a very long chemical given within the first hour that helps with speech after a stroke within the first hour . Someone who was famous on the radio, a speaker and writer, while he was making a hamburger, his wife write away took him to the hospital and he recovered his speech quicker because he was given the chemical that begins with T. I really liked documentary.

The surgery she had it was a life saving surgery I presume, or would she have had survived the initial critical period and recovered slowly like many victims of stroke do?

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I find the comment about there not being enough locked-in patients to be worth investing more funds really disturbing. Brain computer interfaces are being developed for gaming industry, there is not enough communication between the entertainment industry and health related institutions and research. Being locked-in is horrifically debilitating, a lot of locked-in patients have their motor control so severely affected that the are not even recognized as conscious. Dismissing them and their existence by saying it is more humane to invest in research that could contribute to still significant, but relative to the disabilities and problems of locked-in patients really minor, issues of a larger number of people sounds like a paradox to me. I am aware he did not use the wording "more humane" but it can easily be understood that way. I find this kind of humanity really hypocritical ... I love Lotje's documentary, though!

IMHO the doctor really could use some meditation to learn how to listen better.

My sister had an academy award winning student film she made in college that took the top award in all the film awards it was entered in UNTIL ANOTHER DOCUMENTARY ON 'STROKES' ALL OF THE SUDDEN BECAME A COMPETITOR ALL BECAUSE THE DIRECTOR "HAD A STROKE HIMSELF!" ...JUST PRIOR TO BEING ENTERED IN THE COMPETITION! WOW, WHAT'S THE CHANCE THIS EXACT THING HAPPENS AGAIN AND THIS FILM GETS ACCOLADES ...AND AWARDS AND RETURNS WITH FULL UP CAP[ABILITIES