PTSD VS. TOXIC EXPOSURE related brain damage

[Guest guest]

Dr.Phil talked a little about PTSD today.

the kind onvolved with a tramatic experience where a certain smell

can triger you to relive the trauma.

I just have to say that theres a hudge difference in this PTSD of

this type and toxic brain injury damageing the hippocampus.

there is alot of time surrounding the worst part of my exposure thats

blank but a few months later I was haveing incontrolled past memories

intrusion but they were not of my exposure they were just a jumbled

mess of memories and interfered with my thought process and ofcorse

this caused me to have problems talking and words coming out that had

nothing to do with what I was saying, and switching subjects in the

middle of talking. the intrudeing thoughts/memories changed from

being like a bad rollorcoaster ride of never ending memories to not

something so obvious to me pretty quick but it still afected my

talking for a few years as in talking about something, haveing a

intrusive thought, and haveing it change the subject that I was

talking about to wear people noticed that I just changed subjucts in

the middle of a sentence.

or answered a question and my answer had nothing to do with the

question. I dont think that this was constant and would like to say I

reconized when ut happen everytime but I cant say for sure, it's kind

of hard to explain. I fell the distraction problems I have now are

still part of that damage but I've learned to work around certain

problems to some extent anyway.

kind of nervous about whats on my scans but cany really comment

because I'm no expert on reading them.

on the readouts of the frontals and the hippocampus, left and right,

the left hippocampus does not peak like the right or the left and

right frontals. I'm thinking thats not good.

the left hippocampus is thought to play a role in PTSD. have it

severly damaged by a closed head toxic brain injury is different. the

olfactory tracts go to the limbic system theres obvious damage all

along that route. and more. while I'm no expert on reading these

scans, what I live with, the sinuses,eyes,ears and in the brain

speaks volumes. if things dont start changeing quick it seem to me

that PEOPLE THAT BREATH ARE FACEING SERIOUS PROBLEMS IN THE NEAR

FUTURE!