Hi all. If any of you have followed my recovery from PCS (yes the annoying rants and all) you may know I have gone back to University. I'm studying Mindfulness based Approaches at the CMRP in Bangor (via zoom). This is the real deal with neuroscience involvement (yes real science), I'm looking at mindfulness and brain plasticity, that will be my thesis. (A method for targeted plasticity in BI). My own recovery was via a DIY mindful core based rehab, it worked and now I am scientifically varifying the process and putting it in writing so to speak.
I'm sharing the main CMRP site with you because there are free audio guided meditations by some of the world's leading researchers. They may come in useful. Many of the GP's around Bangor, Gwynedd and Anglesey prescribe a course in mindfulness rather than anti-depressants, anti-psychotics etc. The research is overwhelming in it's effectiveness but you have to be committed for it to work.
One of the positive things about TBI is that you become an expert in your own brain (or at the very least an apprentice).
Been practicing meditation now for a few months and I can honestly say that its had more positive results than anything else...the power of positive thinking and focusing on happiness.
Very good luck with your Masters, I have just graduated (no ceremony of course) with a BSc this year and the masochist in me wants to do a Masters! But I think my the friends and family that I have left wouldn't want to go through that again 😂
Oh and listening to Dr Gabor Maté and Dan Siegel has been enlightening, highly recommend.
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I'm doing a collaboration with a student in Montreal Canada, she's an ex Harvard Med school intern that had a TBI, and will hopefully involve communicating with the academic and medical world on a basis of seeing a brain injury from the 'inside out' rather than the current system seeing from the 'outside in'. These two ways of seeing need to be brought together. It's clear there is a communication problem and both views need to be brought together.
What did you do in your degree?
People with real experience of BI are needed in the academic world to help explain the 'inside out' view. Take a bit of time off and have a think about it. I had a feeling that because I managed to recover via a DIY system, (the BI unit I attended wrote me off as unrecoverable) I have a duty to put it into a model for others to see. There's no point shouting at the 'outside inners' that they are going in the wrong direction, the best way is to get into their world and change it or open eyes from their academic world.
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