INTJ's & Head Trauma

[Learning]

Has anyone suffered head trauma? (i.e.-knocked unconscious at whatever age for any period of time)

[AgentofGaming]

No but in Gr.1 I was running and it was raining. Then I ran, slipped and fell backwards hitting head first. It was bleeding a tiny bit and I was a bit dizzy. However not unconscious.

Also last year one of many stair accidents of me rushing up stairs and losing my footing. (My foot got caught under the protruding part of the stairs with both feet in the air). Head first... I was stunned and laid on the couch for a couple hours dizzy. From then on I hold the rail when I go up my basement stairs, and I have scraped my knee and bruised an elbow on several occasions. Same cause... I'm guessing bad stair design.

[Santana28]

when i was 12 or so, i tripped over a chair in class and landed sharply square on my chin. i have a scar and i needed a couple of stitches, it was just a sharp clean blow. i was fine and it didnt even hurt, but as i was walking to the nurses' station down the hallways i guess i just blacked out and they found me leaning up against the wall. i have no idea how long i was out for... i dont even remember anything about it or why i passed out so belatedly. it was weird.

[OmegaPsi]

When I was 5 or 6 or so, I was jumping on a trampaline with some older kids and you guys know that term "Double Bounce"? For those who don't know or refer to it by a diffrent name, a 'Double Bounce' is when one person on the trampaline jumps and you land from a jump right after the other person lands, resulting in a considerable jump hight increase. So I was double bounced and I flew really really high and my head landed on the metal ring that supported the outside.

Had to go to the hospital with blood all down my face, and I remember as we were in the car I became extremely sleepy and my parents kept telling me to stay awake, and once we got the hospital the doctor gave me a frozen juice pop [bannana ew...] and I then fell asleep.

[1OFMANY]

I got my clock rung pretty bad form an anti-tank grenade, no LOC though.

Why?

[AgentofGaming]

Oh I'm reminded of some serious head trauma now.
My little brother climbed up a mattress placed on it's side so it's taller than a standing person.
Now imagine a right angle triangle with hypotenuse '\' like this '|\'
My brother jumped off that mattress '|' on a trajectory like '\' landing head first into a wooden cabinet. There was blood everywhere and he received a lot of stitches. I think I could see the skin patch sunken into the skull (like a plateau except inwards before.
Goriest scene I have ever seen, I still feel it's my fault :thumbsdown: because I played this jumping game with him.

[Nomad]

Yep. Knocked cold a few times during fights, fell off a roof and banged into the cement patio, kicked in the head by a horse, had the RPG thing happen to me too, twice, hit by a car, woke up and asked the cop to get me my weapon (In retrospect, watching the cop freak out was almost worth the six month recovery.) head infuries are my friend. :thumbsup:

-Nomad

Oh yeah, the helicopter crash.

[Caramel]

Well, I was pushed into a pool once and ended up with my jaw on the other side of the pool. It hurt so much that everything faded away and I sank to the bottom. My parents saw it happening, so I didn't drown.

Another time I got hit by a seat from a merry-co-round. Since merry-co-round have fences around then, I got smashed head first into the fence. My face was covered in blood, I was stumbling around like a headless chicken cause I all I could see was a red haze.

Been hit by a car once too and I did hit my head on the frontglas pretty hard (it broke, so I must have) but I didn't had any injuries there at all. I did suffer from tailbone pain and I couldn't sit for weeks.

But looking back on that, it does make a funny story cause now I can tell everyone that my 'ass broke'.

[Hdier]

I used to hit my head. Now I hit other various parts of my body (most commonly legs and arms). Also, one time I crashed my bike. My head it the edge of the curb. Luckily, I was WEARING MY HELMET at the time, so no real damage done.

[FLBareBear]

Yes, Routinely,

Used to look forward to blacking out at my parents hands.
Hey, we can't all have good childhoods. :undecided:

Anyway, not as smart as I used to be, though maybe a little wiser. :cool:

[Gonzo]

10 concussions and counting! Once I cracked my skull from falling down 3 meters, face first into to the pavement. As a result I now have a fear of ladders lol. So I'm no stranger to head trauma.
I guess I should add that I'm into kick boxing, and I got half of them by KO :thumbsup:

[Learning]

I got my clock rung pretty bad form an anti-tank grenade, no LOC though.
Why?
i'm just always trying to connect the dots somewhere & see what commonalities may exist between types. questions... questions...

[David]

Yes, when someone tried to mug me, he was able to get a few knocks to the head before I was able to chase him away

[PortInStorm]

There are so many interesting aspects of head injury.
- so many professional athletes (ie. soccer [one of the worst sports for this!], football, wrestling) end up with brains like Alzheimer's vics because they were put back in before the concussion healed. The brain's ability to process proteins is inhibited until the concussion heals, so if you jingle your brain around while it's healing, the proteins build up, and voila! Rages, uncontrolled emotion, depression etc. That's why so many professional athletes are self-destructing.
- a HUGE percentage of death row inmates have had serious head injury
- the most common area of the brain to be injured (the frontal lobe), also results in the most diffuse/abstract disabilities (inability to regulate emotion [due to its connection with the limbic system, very huge in emotion], inhibit response, plan, order, sequence, stay on track with tasks etc, etc.). Most of the higher function that make us human vs. animal (I know, many think we are animals- I don't).
- someone I know very well had two serious brain injuries (smacked into a wall on his bike, hit the back of his head so hard he went blind for a second [the vision centre is around the back there]), and life is not easy for him. Sure, it's confounded by genetic components and personality, but I'm almost positive the aforementioned deficits are in him, and as a result of head/brain injury.

[med2006]

In 1990 I had a bad fall from a horse. My head landed on hard clay. The site of the injury was the back of my head behind the left ear. I found out later that the site of my injury was very close to the site of Christopher Reeves’ injury. This means that if my head had hit the ground in a slightly different spot I could have been a quadriplegic. My neck was black and blue for weeks after.

I was rushed to the hospital and given a CAT scan. Turns out I had a pretty bad concussion, a contusion (bruise), and swelling of the brain. The neurosurgeon put me into a medically induced coma for 3 or 4 days to prevent me from having seizures. Once I was finally out of intensive care, I was nauseous from all the blood I swallowed. When I was able to get up and get in the shower I realized that I still had dried blood in my ears and nose. This is when I realized just how serious the accident was. The blood had no where to go so it came out my nose and ears from the swelling. I also had the worst headaches I have ever had and no appetite. I have the utmost sympathy for people who suffer from migranes now.

It turns out that I had damaged the frontal lobe and some of the olfactory nerves were damaged. I had lost my sense of smell! This explained the lack of appetite. To this day I hate the taste of too much salt. When I ate food all I could taste was the salt so even the tiniest bit was too much since I couldn’t detect any of the other flavors due to no sense of smell. The human tongue can only detect bitter, sweet, and salty flavors. Our sense of taste is probably 90% related to our sense of smell.

Luckily my sense of smell started to return after a few months and is now almost completely back. But I could never be a professional wine taster.

I have no idea why but I think in some ways the accident intensified my INTJ tendencies. I noticed that after the accident I started becoming more of an introvert. Before the accident I always had a tendency to withdraw for weeks or months at a time. When I was 15 I basically spent the entire summer indoors watching cooking shows on PBS (I loved Julia Childs), trying the dishes I saw prepared on TV, and reading. Maybey by having such a close encounter with mortality some of my preferences changed and I became more reflective.

[denaria]

I've never actually knocked myself unconcious but I do seem to have a rather poor awareness of where I stop and where large, solid, stationary objects start. As a result I am always bashing bits of myself - normally my head, but the other day I almost broke my nose putting a box onto the back seat of the car (it's still throbbing a bit.) I'm pretty stoical about this (years of practice) so normally I just suck my teeth a bit.

[oppugno1215]

I am a gymnast, and so I have had many, many head injuries. These include crashing head-first into a vault, losing my grip on high bar and subsequently slamming my head on the ground, several incidents concerning flips, and almost breaking my nose on beam. I wonder why I still do gymnastics. It must be all of the lost brain cells.

[TheLastMohican]

Has anyone suffered head trauma? (i.e.-knocked unconscious at whatever age for any period of time)

I hope you are not impying that there is a correlation between the two events.

[Haphazard]

I hope you are not impying that there is a correlation between the two events.

We need a site-wide poll. Things could get pretty disturbing.

I fell out of a tree when I was 3. Not knocked unconscious, but I remember being shaken up really badly, and this doesn't include all the times I've knocked myself nauseated by hitting my head against the wall because of stupidity.

[TheLastMohican]

We need a site-wide poll. Things could get pretty disturbing.

I fell out of a tree when I was 3. Not knocked unconscious, but I remember being shaken up really badly, and this doesn't include all the times I've knocked myself nauseated by hitting my head against the wall because of stupidity.

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[Haphazard]

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