Coming out of a coma
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Has anyone experienced coming out of a coma? I’m just wondering on what stages of recollection you went through?
For context, I was in a coma for a few months, and I’m now recovering. I remember my family, friends, home etc. but my brain is, no doubt partly as a protection mechanism, blocking what caused me to drink myself into a very bad state. Without my phone I would not of worked out that I’d got into a serious relationship that must of gone horribly wrong. Selective amnesia springs to mind.
For context, I was in a coma for a few months, and I’m now recovering. I remember my family, friends, home etc. but my brain is, no doubt partly as a protection mechanism, blocking what caused me to drink myself into a very bad state. Without my phone I would not of worked out that I’d got into a serious relationship that must of gone horribly wrong. Selective amnesia springs to mind.
I’ve seen it often enough in films.
You wake up after a few months. Rip tubes out of your arm and escape hospital.
If unlucky you might have to disarm a policeman or engage in hand-hand with assailants, ideally throwing one through a window in an operating theatre and stabbing another in the leg with a scalpel.
If all goes well though, you can steal a doctor’s lab coat and make your way out of the hospital.
I’m assuming that’s pretty standard for coma patients.
You should now make your way to a lock up/storage unit filled with £500,000 of equipment.
You wake up after a few months. Rip tubes out of your arm and escape hospital.
If unlucky you might have to disarm a policeman or engage in hand-hand with assailants, ideally throwing one through a window in an operating theatre and stabbing another in the leg with a scalpel.
If all goes well though, you can steal a doctor’s lab coat and make your way out of the hospital.
I’m assuming that’s pretty standard for coma patients.
You should now make your way to a lock up/storage unit filled with £500,000 of equipment.
Edited by jdw100 on Saturday 7th December 03:56
Popeyed said:
Has anyone experienced coming out of a coma? I’m just wondering on what stages of recollection you went through?
For context, I was in a coma for a few months, and I’m now recovering. I remember my family, friends, home etc. but my brain is, no doubt partly as a protection mechanism, blocking what caused me to drink myself into a very bad state. Without my phone I would not of worked out that I’d got into a serious relationship that must of gone horribly wrong. Selective amnesia springs to mind.
This sounds like it might be a TBI (traumatic brain injury). Or at least, the symptoms and recovery pathway might be similar - maybe worth a call to Headway or similar? https://www.headway.org.uk/For context, I was in a coma for a few months, and I’m now recovering. I remember my family, friends, home etc. but my brain is, no doubt partly as a protection mechanism, blocking what caused me to drink myself into a very bad state. Without my phone I would not of worked out that I’d got into a serious relationship that must of gone horribly wrong. Selective amnesia springs to mind.
Whilst it might be chemical trauma rather than physical trauma, the healing path of something like that takes quite some time. Emotions all over the place and patchy short term memory returning over time. Not a medical professional but have worked with psychological trauma for quite some time, including TBI.
Other possible option is incident was so traumatic that it triggered a deep psychological trauma shut-down: book for interest here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trauma-Lockerbie-trauma-a...
To say again : not a medical professional , but they might be two threads you could pull and see if it helps.
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