Brain injuries are a hell like no other. In the “old days”--someone with a head injury would be described as “just not being right in the head” after that. They say that brain injuries are the the "signature wound of this war" and we have “little understanding of its long-term consequences.“
That was before we had so many chemical concoctions to alter our biochemistry and all the many possible diagnoses. Chemical treatment of symptoms became standard operating procedure of a profession we all still believe is committed to our health. Now we medicate people to control the symptoms rather than figuring out how to fix what went wrong. Medicating people for things that can be fixed with our own human abilities is a scary kind of Science. Thank goodness it’s not the only kind of Science.
I CAME BACK from brain injuries and BLINDNESS-- THEY said were "permanent!" THEY said I'd never get better again!
And if I had to go with the kind of treatment our veterans and soldiers are getting--I'd still be blind, sick, with a brain that wasn't working. We need to talk about FIXING brain injuries--not managing them!
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Great video, Z. I look forward to seeing the rest. ~Kat (met you in Sebastopol at an aromatherapy class)
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