The Effects of Brain Injury on Memory 

I sometimes walk into a room and don't remember why I walked into that room ..

I got jumped a couple of years ago, my head being punched multiple times by 3 people. Since some time (presumably then) I am experiencing a severe memory loss, or the inability to register some stuff. I can be engaged in talking with somebody and just a couple of minutes later not be able to list even one thing we talked about, I can just recall the general vibe of the conversation, and some small pieces of dialog “highlights” every now and then. I don’t know if that’s because of me being unable of giving 100% of my attention to anything because I’m stuck there being anxious inside my head, pretty much entire time, or if the Aspergers that I suspect in myself (for some pretty solid reasons) contributes to that, but it really feels like it’s not getting any better with time, and I’m already getting kinda more and more sick of it. What especially shocks me is that during the day I can have random thoughts or flashbacks, if you will, about some bizarre or irrelevant situations that happened waaaay back in my childhood/teens (before that incident ofc) and they’re often so clear that I can remember exactly the context and what I was taking about with somebody or what they said to me. Now I’m just looking for the explanation for all of this mess that my mind has become over the years. Idk if I do this to feel better or to satisfy my curiosity for knowledge, but I’m probably not gonna fully remember most of those videos I watch anyway lol. And yeah, please feel free to point out any grammar mistakes I might’ve made, English is my second language and I guess I’m forgetting how to use it as well if I don’t do it often enough lol. I tried k

Thank you for the vid. While I can't remember many day to day things, places, and appointments, I was always strong in math and science. I went back to school for my MS in mathematics a year after my tbi. Probably the best thing I did.

Sometimes I forget things I don’t mean to, I’m going to start making a list to remind me Ty for the video.

I've been had this TBI, I think the longer we find the clue for memory recall, overtime the harder to recollect the memory. Easiest way to get the clue, is the closest thing right before trauma occurred.

You made your homework you just exactly illustrated whats going on in my head after a cranial fracture in a car accident, its so hard talk to people even family or profesional medical personnel, yes I said that right medical pesonnel, my speech therapist in kaiser after i did a couple tests on paper and i didn’t do well on the memory test she said this” its because you don’t pay attention memory works like that you pay attention 1st and then you can recall it back” so miserable lady. ThankYou for your video.

I had a TBI back in March. I have no problem with long term memory but my sequential and attention memory is affected, and I also lost my sense of smell.

I was in middle school when this happened but my mom woke me up for school and I felt like crap my vision was weird I was slightly confused at first and my mom made me go to school and as soon as I got to school I immediately went to the nurses office and she checked my temperature and looked shocked and waved her hand in front my face and said I'm checking to see if your a zombie and said my temperature was 112 and i most likely have brain damage depending on how long i had the fever... but of course I was asleep so I dont know how long I had it but my short term memory has never been the same

Keep going doing amazing things stay strong stay safe sending love from headway Nottingham UK takecare xxx

Thanks for information.

My long and short time memory is poor but I remember numbers very well. Cannot understand this. Great video. Thanks

Thank you dr

I wish I was luckier because I can't remember much,I miss appointments I lose things I'm always getting hurt by objects and bumping into things I don't notice and more..but if you are from Florida don't reply they treat us like animals and criminals and throw us in jail type of cells without any kind of kindness or support groups

I have hydrocephalus. Failed ETV with life threatening complications last year (salt wasting syndrome and acute kidney injury stage 2) and now have a VP Shunt. I have been told my brain is damaged. My memory is awful. It’s so disabling. As well as my mobility

I needed around 5 years to restore and order them. I'm not sure what happened then. Not a very nice time. I couldn't even tell from my own perspective that I forgot something, I only felt that something is terribly wrong! I tried to find out what's happening, where I come from etc. Today I remembered some things again! For me the memory disorder is the worst part about losing them!

I'm really good with long term memory but my short term is bad.

I believe my memory and focus and attention issues are connected to my gut

I had a severe tbi in 1998, when I was 9. Significant encephalomalacia left frontal lobe. I am an automation engineer.

I've had several head injuries and the doctor says I have lesions on my brain but my memory, at least with numbers, has actually improved. I ALMOST have a photographic memory with numbers.

I'm in England & most of us here can't ever access professional help with 'support strategies' = I bet it's the same in the US unless you've got VERY good insurance or are wealthy? Some of your examples sound like you haven't got much experience of living with a brain injury, for example: you said we might not remember what we had for breakfast or what we wore yesterday = I (& many others with brain injuries, I think) eat the same thing for breakfast & lunch every day, partly because of digestion & swallowing problems & partly because it's easier to have the same very boring but EASY routines & also lack of income & energy = too many decisions otherwise. Same for what clothes we wore yesterday: I wear the same clothes every day until I have to wash them (4-5 days for top clothes, hoodies/sweatshirts on top of long-sleeve T-shirt in winter = 2 weeks minimum) because I haven't got a washing machine so I have to wash clothes & bedding & towels (EVERYTHING) by hand = it's exhausting & hurts to do & have to boil water in kettle, but no choice. Also you talk about notes/reminders: I had to do that from the start but as there are so MANY tasks I have to try to do ALONE: the piles of notes get higher = I can't DO it all; I'm drowning in papers & notes = it's HELL. Before my brain injury I was dp good at paperwork & filing & now I'm not, it's very sad. PLUS I've lost my previous very strong maths skills. You're right: I CAN'T pay attention ALL THE TIME FOR EVERYTHING I DO, so when I don't then I don't know if I've just been to the toilet or was just going to go, or whether I did lock the door or not so IF I think/remember I have to go and check, it's EXHAUSTING. My memory problems with old memories are very complex; you're right some very old childhood memories are clear & easy to access and newer ones not but for me there are massive HOLES in even quite old memories (eg from 25 years ago) that I used to easily know before my brain injury. And newer memories after my brain injury are mostly weird: SO vague & SUCH hard work to try to access/remember them, very difficult to explain = complex. I don't know if I had anoxia/hypoxia, I know I did in op theatre because I woke paralysed *by their drugs) & suffocating & 'died', but I don't know all causes, I think my throat & neck injuries (& scar site abdomen) may have cut/damaged blood vessels (& nerves) which affect blood going to brain & eyes (especially right) plus docs (because THEY caused all this but lied & denied & covered-up after) neglected my very damaged throat so it became very infected for SO long (still now?) which may have affected blood vessels/my brain etc (& caused bad gum disease especially on my right)? I don't know: after 15 years I'm still supposed to guess because nobody will TELL me = VERY cruel. Thank you for highlighting some of our difficulties though - it all helps but please can you add things like : brain injury survivors may not be able to do all their tasks on their lists & note that we can't all change our clothes every day & that we may be (if nobody to sue & not 'won' a legal case) be living in poverty & that there aren't enough (& we can't always access) government/state services? Thank you.

Thank you. I have a tbi, it is an invisible injury.

yes i used to have diary.. why is there no cure... i believe i had brain trauma some 40 years ago after falling off a bike... its so awful for me not being able to remember 99% of my childhood..cant remember my wedding day only flashes of memory. im very bad at navigation as well.. get lost driving all the time.. im good for numbers though.. would you think that happened to me?? was knocked unconscious and was v confused when i got up.. i know it was a long time ago but the memories of my life are there but need something to release them.. long story.. my brother can remember everything we did but i cannot ... thanks..

mine stopped encoding and more long term seems intact. forget it with short term

I actually forgot that I had already watched this [Im not kidding] :]

I hit top of my head and now having so much memory loss it has a bid effect on my life and having depression

You are an angel Omg you explained everything so well I'm so glad I found you on here ... Suffering from ABI OR TBI I'm not too sure it happened close to more than a month ago, im in hospital right now for psych ward I don't think I'm in the right place ATM... I need to be in brain damage help... I'll check out more videos and I'd love to chat with you all I'm so new at this and at first it was a nightmare but now people like us have people like you to help with such a horrible event... All the best to all reading this... Stay strong 💯% 💜

I have hypoxic brain injury and this lady has got it bang on, shame i cant talk with her

I was in a truck accident recently last Sunday my truck was total by a trailer that reared ended me an now I have head aches trauma an do fine myself acting different like forget my left from right

Its my short thats poor long fantastic but balance eye issues nerve pain chronic get tired very easily

I forget names and terms.

I had a bad trauma head accedent back in 1996 and died near death exp..I am so disappointed that yes later I'm a nobody and I don't want to reach out for government to support me..I'm a mess cause my neurons connect and disconnect so someone please speak out with some info what could I do..:(

I cant seem to write down all the information and will only discover it later . Ive jad a few hits to me head . I am sure its related to my issues with memory . One of thr memory issues is i rhink the long term memory , i know the short term has a lot of issues that seem to get worse and worse and trying to recover from a hit to my head seems to take longer . But i think is something i rarely hear is trouble with remember things i know i know info or i know it how to do something and shoukd be abld to explain to another human but then im confursdd and the harder i try the more i feel like a , this person thinks im a idiot or dont know what im talking about .. I rarely complete a task do to the amount of times i may loose or firget what i was doing while looking for something that has been forgotten also then repeat proccess and its sometimes unclear when i may get the project finished that was probably never important in the first place. What i wonder also is head injurys and mental health issues that are clearly before the head injurys as far as i know ..i wonder if lack of oxygen was a issue when i was born . Or the lroblem i e always had where its difficult breathing threw my nose . . I would love to be able to breathe threw my nose better especially when i seem to forget to breathe threw my shut mouth . Im anxious thinking about tjis and trying to tect it clearly . I know it wont be clear it never is . I have fail to remidy rhe issues with missing words and how i write like i speak and it makes it harder to make sense of what im saying here .and i am only worse at texting this with no more real goid hand eye cordination and light speed thought and a thumb traveling like its in a school zone and chulren are present and its 1988 and its clear my mind has outrun my thumb far into the future and the increase mass of the brain celll has to much info scattered about in like my files cabnetis have all been knocked over and may be hardr to find or understand them and i toss them away and i swear im not right in the head . ..

childhood tbi hit by, fractured skull closed head. swallowed tongue and choked to death at 8. so i never had a chance to learn or remember. most of my 62 years is lost. And btw i got zero treatment.

i was a nurse had an accident on my bike landed on my head had TBI Sub arracnoid hemorage sub dural hematomas both side and now i have epilepsy which is controlled by a horrid drug called Keppra but it mean i got my driving licence back after a year.. memory is isnt bad long term but short term it poor. oh and I have a VP Shunt now

I had no recollection of my concussion like the event but one night I had a dream that I was walking in my mind library and I had stumbled upon the incident... I then was sycked into the event and watched it in third person and remeber seeing everything I saw in real life it just blew my mind now I can remeber my incident after that ny memory feels fine now tha fuck did I just have fucking mind/vision seption?

I'm trying to look good I'm lifting weights but I keep forgetting what rep I'm on so I keep having to restart

Plz reply me.... I had an accident and I forget everything happened on that day (before and after accident) and my family members doesnot believe me ... Plz explain me is it possible to forget the moments that happened before accident???? Plz explian

My child got about 1inch cut on forehead can it cause mental illness

what is the effect of acquired brain injury on intelligence , is there a decrease in intelligence and i q Level after brain injury ?

I had a good memory I don't understand why I was run over

Good day to every one, i have some questions, if someone know or had this before please help me, my girlfriend had a brain surgery two weeks before, now she woke up from coma and can't recognise me, she knows everything but not the last one year where we was together she even don't know me and my name, so question is : is it possible to forget some memories not all ?, and how long it will take to be normal again?, is it possible to bring all memories that was lost? please guys if you know pm me in this comment thank you

she get it

IM HERE NOW FOR THE 3RD TIME!!!!!.........help me '''somebody''' I cant remember

20 days ago my mother lost her memory after road accident .....Now she is fine expect headache....She could not talk continuously....What should I do

How to gain forgotten memory

For The last 25yrs

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If you haven’t noticed, every Brain Injury is different. Different parts of the brain when struck different ways result in different injuries. This video talks about the effects that a Brain Injury has on memory. Most injured object and find flaws to this prognosis. Just saying. I have no MD certification, just TBI certification!

I forgot to watch this video.

To bad nobody’s gonna believe I ha short term memory loss it’s that kinda of thing that nobody believes you and think your trolling it’s sad