Dazed and confused

[Urbanecology]

I have been diagnosed with dysexecutive Syndrome otherwise known as Frontal Lobe Syndrome and another term thats come up for it is executive dysfunction. This diagnoses was made yesterday (15th June 2018) so as you can imagine I am more than a little bewildered at the moment.

[cat3]

Can you tell us a bit more about how your brain injury came about ; Has it resulted from an illness, such as stroke, or from a traumatic injury ?

[Urbanecology in reply to cat3]

Given my memory has been out of wack since high school I don't actually know, I do know have sustained at least 4 head injuries since high school though which have made my condition worse, ultimately going to the doctors repeatedly about it until they finally sent me to a neurophsycologist (only took me 8 years) and she after all the testing diagnosed me with the executive dysfunction.

[cat3 in reply to Urbanecology]

This is something many here suffer from since either an acquired brain injury (stroke, tumour bleed etc.) or a traumatic one (blow to the head).

My injury was caused by a Subarachnoid haemorrhage (frontal lobe) which left me with various after effects including executive dysfunction but which, with 6 years of brain training (jigsaws, crosswords, word and memory games etc., has improved to the point of good days and bad days..........rather than all bad !

Try this link for more information on the issue :-

headway.org.uk/about-brain-...

Best wishes, Cat x

[cat3 in reply to cat3]

The above link isn't working ; try this :-

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...