Brain Injury May Reverse Pre-Injury Trauma Work

"Your brain injury may have disconnected your pre-injury memories from your emotions, and thus undone any trauma work you may have done before your injury. When emotions return, the now-unhealed memories upthrust a tsunami of traumas that you hadn't thought about in years."

"To re-heal these pre-injury wounds, you and your therapist will need to acknowledge this strange unhealing and work together to reconnect the memories with the emotions. Only neurostimulation therapies can restore your affect so you can do this work."

"Memories that appear and disappear, like whack-a-mole or black holes opening and closing in your memory banks, complicate the effort to re-heal pre-injury traumas. Although neurostimulation therapies may regenerate the regions responsible for long-term autobiographical memory, working through grief may become necessary before trauma memories stabilize enough to reconnect to emotions."

Brain injury can disconnect pre-injury memories from emotions, leading to a resurgence of past traumas. This disconnection complicates healing, as unhealed memories can cause confusion and chaos. To address these traumas, collaboration with a therapist is essential, focusing on reconnecting memories with emotions. Neurostimulation therapies are crucial for restoring these neural networks. Grieving may also play a role in stabilizing trauma memories, allowing for emotional reconnection and healing.

Read at Psychology Today