How I Minimized Distractions After Brain Injury

The video explores the personal journey of recovery and emotional challenges faced after a brain injury from a car accident.
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Speaker discusses their decision to turn off app notifications to minimize distractions following a brain injury from a car accident.
there we go. Anyway, yeah, so essentially back in December, I got in that car wreck, and then I decided to, you know, I got a brain injury, so I made the decision to be off of notifications on all my apps. Only thing I'd have would be notifications from my family, from text messages, and phone calls. Every other app, whether it's Instagram, Facebook, whatever, I had every one of those notifications turned off. I didn't want to see them. I didn't want to have the, you know, the little pop-ups or the noises because I just wanted to take a break. part of that was because from getting the brain injury from my car wreck, when you're hit by a car, when you're T-boned by another car at 65 miles an hour, and you get your head smashed into, well, the window, the airbag, side airbag window, and the car when it hits you at 65 miles an hour, you got some trouble. You get a little bit of brain trauma in many cases. And so I wanted no distractions, which was a beautiful thing.
[06:51-07:00]
Speaker shares the ongoing emotional difficulties they face while adjusting to life post-injury, including struggles with word retrieval.
So obviously sometimes it's hard, even now, seeing a neurologist and things like that, but even now it's still hard to come up with the word. But it gets there eventually.