Tap into Your Emotions After Brain InjuryA Quick Guide to Alexithymia for People with Concussion and Brain Injury
A brain injury can affect your emotions in many ways.
Some people feel emotions much more intensely.
Some people feel them much less than they did before the injury.
Both are normal.
Let's watch Shelbi Williams talk about how difficult it was to read the emotions of others and to show emotions herself after her brain injury.
For Lieutenant Michael Diamond, USN, a 21-year U.S. Navy officer and combat veteran, emotional regulation challenges followed multiple traumatic brain injuries during his military service.
My wife began noticing I was developing a ‘quick fuse’ with external influences and reacting in a different fashion, such as clenched jaws and grinding of teeth. She equated it to me turning into the ‘Hulk’ when I would get emotionally overstimulated. For happy or joyous events, I would have very muted emotional reactions — limited smiling or lack of excitement or joy. In her eyes it seemed like I was always mad or on the brink of an emotional outburst.
This quick guide will help you learn how to get back in touch with your emotions.