Brain injuries can affect people’s compulsive nature and decision-making skills. It is a very sensitive area of personal injury law and quite rightly so. Brain injury varies greatly from person to person because each person’s injury allows for differing affects due to the location of the damage.
These affects not only cause devastating and great difficulties to the brain injury victims but also to the friends and family that no longer recognise there loved one and don’t understand what is going on.
The following are just a few changes that a person who has suffered form brain injury could experience. The Injury Lawyers are experts in this field and are highly sensitive to all cases regarding brain injury. Please get in contact with ourselves if you feel you or a loved would like to know more about making a brain injury claim.
Cognitive Changes: A brain injury can cause cognitive changes which affect the individuals ability to learn new things, to work and be able to interact socially.
Lack of Insight: Individuals with a brain injury can have great difficulty seeing and accepting changes to their thinking and behaviour. It is therefore necessary to provide frequent, clear and simple explanations about why a problem is being treated or why the person is unable to do something.
Memory Problems: One of the most common cognitive changes is poor memory. There may be problems in remembering people’s names, passing on messages, or recalling details read in a book or a newspaper.
Slowed Responses: An individual with a brain injury may now be slower to answer questions or to perform tasks and may have difficulty in keeping up in conversations. Their capacity to respond quickly in an emergency may also be diminished.
Problem-Solving: Individuals with a brain injury might have difficulty solving problems and planning and organising things they have to do.
Irritability: Individuals may also have a very low tolerance for frustration and can become easily agitated and may lose their temper quickly.
Depression: Depression in an individual with brain injury is a very common emotional consequence that usually comes some time after the injury. Signs of depression include lack of motivation, loss of sexual drive, sleep disturbance and tearfulness.
Misconceptions: A common misconception is that a brain injury is simply a type of intellectual disability. In actual fact many individuals whom acquire a brain injury usually retain their intellectual abilities but have difficulty controlling, coordinating and communicating their thoughts and actions.