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Brainlash: Maximize Your Recovery from Mild Brain Injury

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If you have suffered from a mild traumatic brain injury, as I have,"Brainlash" was the starting point of recovery for me. And I thank God for this book & Gail Denton every day. I quote a paragraph from the book that sums up the point I was at when I started to read BrainLash. "Brain injury races undetected, underdiagnosed, and undertreated through our society." "Between the medical professions ( untrained to recognize it), the insurance community ( unwilling to pay for it ), and the legal sector (unable to represent the loss or grasp the consequences), the mildly brain injured individual has little to rely on and less to go on." And NO!!!! your not going crazy, It just seems that way. The Book is easy to read and finially puts a name on, fully defines,and gives solutions to the symptoms feelings and thoughts that a brain injured person is experiencing but dosen't know why. It is also important to have your family and friends read it so they can try to understand what you are going thru even when you can't understand it yourself. From the resource section of the book I highly recomend that you consider attending the Sensory learning institute and having cranio-sacral therapy. It has been aprox 18 months since my accident and although I feel full recovery is obtainable, it is a long journey and my journey didn't start until I read this book and used its resources.

I have read a number of books on the subject as I am a person who has a brain Injury. This book, more than any other I have read, has been extremely helpful to me. First of all because it explains so well what happens to the sufferer, both physiologically as well as emotionally. The book also gives lots of possitive suggestions for coping as well as for healing.

I fulheartedly recommend this book for both patients as well as their family and friends. It gives much understanding into the issue of brain injury and also much encouragement. It is an uplifting book, at least for me it was!

Thank you Gail Denton.

This book was introduced to me about 16 months after a car accident that resulted in my brainlash. I had many treatments and many doctors with little results and I was scared and frustrated and very alone. As I glanced through it the first time, I thought-"someone understands." It has been very informative as well as comforting as I continue my healing process. The author really understands what I'm going through. It is easy to read and understand. Everyone who's had a head injury, knows someone who's had a head injury or treats someone who's had a head injury or handles the insurance for someone who's had a head injury should get and read this book.

This book is a guide to sanity for those who have experienced mild brain injury, as I have. In the fall of 2000, I suffered an accidental fall and spent the following 15 months in a struggle to recover my 'real self". With the aid of this book, I am now fully functional again and able to cope with the minor relapses. I strongly recommend this book to those who suffer, their friends and caregivers.

This book is fantastic. I am recovering from a brain injury and I learned many important things reading this book. It is done in plain english with big letters and great information. It has been a big help to my recovery. Thank you to the author.

When my daughter suffered a severe concussion in a car accident on Father's Day, June 18, 2000, I was desperate for information about what to expect, what to hope for, and what to accept about her condition. I surfed the internet and chatrooms looking for information, and many "survivors" of mild brain trauma and their family members unanimously recommended this book. I bought it, and found in it an invaluable comfort and resource. It has been a difficult month, but it looks like my daughter will have a full recovery, at least in part thanks to the information we found in Brainlash. Recommended!

I really did not like this book. Gail Denton, suffered a brain injury in 1991 - that is almost 20 years ago! TBIs were not well understood. There has been a tremendous amount of research; significant changes in diagnosis; and vast improvements in treatment in the past 20 years. This book has not kept up!

Because brain injuries were still so misunderstood and under-diagnosed back in 1991 the author received virtually no diagnosis or treatment for her brain injury. She had to figure things out for herself. She was (and sounds like she still is) very ANGRY about it. Her anger at the injustices done to her is a very strong current throughout the book. I do not find reading about someone's anger to be helpful to my own healing.

The book is a very personal account of the author's individual path of healing from her specific brain trauma. Brain trauma varies from person to person. I did not feel like her book took that breadth into consideration; this is about HER injury. This book is a mostly a journal of her journey.

At the time that this book first came out, there were very few books available about Brain Injuries. Now there are numerous GOOD books out about brain injuries. Most of them are sold on Amazon. I have read many, and frankly, I put this one at the bottom of my list.

This book is a must have for patients and families of brain trauma. It clearly states symptoms and stages of the trauma. It tells you what to expect. It isn't a medical description but a patient to patient description in terms that anyone can comprehend. It is one excellent book. Thank you Gail Denton for writing this book.

I feel that this book literally saved my soul. I am recovering from a mild TBI. My discovery of BRAINLASH was actually the greatest force in my healing process, and still is. It is not a book a TBI survivor reads once, I have read and re-read the pertinent parts. It is a blessing for family members trying to understand. (Although my own family members refused to read it; denial of what I was going through seemed a safer ground for them.) I am sure I am not alone in trying to heal on my own, with the help of a loving son, and Brainlash.

Part of the "polarization-of-healing" seems to me to be an incredible sense of isolation. NO ONE, except for the person with the brain injury truly knows what it is now like to function in their world with their new limitations, and the emotional feelings associated with that. It seems most injuries are unique, but there are many common threads. If not for this book, I would have questioned my sanity and my ability to heal every step of the way. Gail Denton's BRAINLASH has given me hope and understanding, resources and comfort...............when the going got tough.......her words were always by my side. Thank you Gail L. Denton!

My daughter was in a rear-end accident three years ago.All of her medical tests were negative, however she is not the "same person she used to be". This book of symptoms describes her to a "T". She is still under medical care and on medications.After reading parts of this book we now undertand what no one else has been able to tell us. Thanks!