Cracked : recovering after traumatic brain injury / Lynsey Calderwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calderwood, Lynsey, 1978-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain damage--Patients--Rehabilitation--Great Britain--Biography.

Brain damage.

Brain--Wounds and injuries--Complications--Patients--Great Britain--Biography.

Brain.

Calderwood, Lynsey, 1978---Health.

Calderwood, Lynsey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Pub., 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At the age of 14, Lynsey Calderwood suffered a traumatic brain injury that left her physically unmarked but destroyed her memory. Thrust back into an apparently nonsensical world of which she had no recollection; Lynsey spiralled downwards into depression and eating disorders as she became socially ostracized.

Contents:

COVER

Cracked: Recovering After Traumatic Brain Injury

Contents

FOREWORD

Chapter 1 How I Felt in the Beginning

Chapter 2 The Behavioural Unit

Chapter 3 Diagnosis

Chapter 4 The Mental Hospital, Rebellion + Bullying

Chapter 5 Back to School + More Bullying

Chapter 6 New School + New Friends

Chapter 7 Anorexia, the Gym + Exercise Addiction

Chapter 8 My Gran

Chapter 9 The Brain Injured Community

Chapter 10 Sexual Identity

Chapter 11 Rehab + College

Chapter 12 Work

Chapter 13 Inspiration + the Road Ahead

REFERENCE.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223).

ISBN:

9786610447015

9781280447013

128044701X

9781417553679

1417553677

9781846421747

1846421748

OCLC:

55638836