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HANGOUT RECOURCES, Inc.
Guest Speaker:
Doctor Shraa began the discussion at 11:04A.
He began by reminding us all that each human brain is different and each TBI is different. That is what makes Clinical Psychology so important and interesting not only to the professionals treating each TBI, but for each patient as well. There are no "mystical" treatment plans that will work for each TBI patient. Each patient has to be individually assessed, diagnosed, tested and monitored throughout his or her recovery.
1. A person suffering a TBI in the present day is vastly better-off than that same person experiencing a TBI, 25 years ago. The technology has advanced so co-efficiently that today's patient has a much better chance at more advanced treatment and improved recovery than this same patient has ever had in the past. The diagnostic and testing tools available to the HealthCare Professionals are more accurate, more reliable and much faster than they have ever been.
2. One of the difficulties remaining in the effective recovery of a TBI patient is the abhorrence of the general public to any and all mental illnesses and/or traumatic brain injuries. This results in a "fear" of the general public as to the safety of even speaking with a TBI patient. As the treatment plans are more individually developed and applied, this public mis-understanding is gradually diminishing and re-habilitation in the mind of the general citizenry is more successful. The TBI patient is very gradually, more accepted in the general populace. We are not incurably evil and dangerous. This is a major victory.
3. Frontal Lobe TBI: Injuries involving the Array of Frontal Lobes often affect the accuracy with which the patient is able to determine reality in their current environments. The most successful treatment plan addressing this important facet of TBI is: " Slow things down." If the Clinical Psychologist and the Neurologist unite in an effort to impress upon the patient that it is not accelerated thought that is most important. It is accurate perception and considered evaluation of that reality that is most needed. In today's society, accuracy is truthfully more important to the on-going life/recovery and rehabilitation of a TBI patient than the speed with which these goals are achieved.
3A. Doctor Shraa then went into "accurate" descriptions and functions of the major sections of the human brain. The functions and "geographical locations" of the Occipital Lobe, and other primary sections of our brains were "slowly and accurately" described. The membership of this organization is demonstrative of the diversity of TBI in the patient communities. In this group, Dr. Shraa's commitment to "slow and accurate" communication allowed each of us present to understand and not be confused or afraid of what Dr. Shraa was discussing.
3B. Then, Doctor Shraa went into the importance of quietly challenging each patient to use the "slow it down" tools to understand the body-movements/postures, gestures, tonal and vocabulary elements of our vocal interaction with other people, not just other TBI patients. In the general public, things are often mis-understood and mis-interpreted. Each of us, the patients and the general public, have to remember to ask for clarifications from people whom we feel we have not understood. We would all be pleasantly surprised at how much confrontation and discord can be avoided if we understand each other. Again, "…slow it down."
4. Ergo:
B. Accuracy of perception of the actions, statements, and orders of "authority figures" such as Neurologists, Therapists, RNs, Police Officers, etc., is elemental to the quality of life each of us lives. The probabilities are that these "authority figures" are actually trying to help us. They rely on us to tell them if a treatment plan is working or not. If we as TBI patients are truthful with each of our Health-Care Professionals, our recovery will be a bit more "reality based", more clinically accurate and less time-consuming.
C. MULTI-TASKING: In today's social, professional and recreational activities, it has become almost a "religious necessity" to be doing three or four things at once, all the time, to be considered intelligent, productive and worthwhile. Our computers are built, programmed and used to accomplish these multi-tasking goals. If we partake in multitasking, each individual task will suffer in accuracy, perception and product. We will get a lot done, but we will have to go back and correct the errors more often than we would like. Again, "slow things down." The computers can go ahead with all the multiple, multi-tasking. We must consider each result, associate it with other results if applicable and then determine a course of action based on the truth with which we have perceived reality. The rest of it all is precisely the amalgam of errors we would all prefer to avoid.
@11:54A, Doctor Shraa finished his presentation and was sincerely thanked by the membership.
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