Brain damage? possible to grow new cells?

In my psychology class we were learning about how conditions before birth affect fetal development... lets just say I was definitely born under not so favorable conditions... and it made me wonder; am I messed up for it? Suddenly I get paranoid; i've had quite a few concussions in my lifetime (clumsiness) and I wonder, is that affecting me too?
I figure I'm just paranoid, but whenever I struggle in math, driving, etc., and the fact that I'm clumsy, I wonder if my brain is really messed up.
advice?

 

well you cant put a gun to your head, blow your brains out and expect them to grow back.. But ..

There is positive proof cannabis/thc and psyclobin/psilocybin may repair damaged cells, and protect them.

Best things though is to eat fish oils and omega fatty acids , stay away from petro chemicals and hard drugs like meth, dxm, k,pcp,cocaine,inhalants...

take care of your health in general..

 

I swear i have brain damage or just a bit retartid, i hope that shit grows back tho at the same time i wouldnt have it any other way, if brain cells were money ive spent mine on a few good times, just adapt to the new you,

 

No growth of new cells but there's always potential for new connections (dendrites) to grow/connect between existing/remaining cells. Also, possible to "re-route things in the brain with a lot of intensive therapy.

 

neurocells do not regenerate

 

I can sort of relate to this and tell you about my experience with it...

I was abused and neglected in infancy (got taken away from my birth parents at 4 months, and was later adopted), which gave me slight brain damage... sort of.

This affected me in childhood. As a kid, I was non-responsive, but as I got older I figured out how to react to things. After years and years of medication, therapy, and learning how to be normal, I am able to fully function in real life. All I can say now is that I am a slow thinker, and my reaction time to things is slightly more delayed than an average person's.

So through these experiences, my best answer for you would be that there is no immediate way to fix brain damage. It takes time and willpower. I don't know if you've heard about it before, but there's been a lot of cases where let's say someone suffers a severe head injury and they lose the ability to write or talk. Usually they can re-learn that ability using other parts of the brain. The parts of the brain that are lost will never come back, but what you still have can re-learn whatever was lost.

Whatever damage you have suffered, you can overcome it. Think of your brain as a large field of grass. Your usual patterns of thinking are like paths where the grass has been walked through frequently. What you want to do is explore parts of that field that you've never gone through before and make new paths in different locations. Sure, a bit of your field got destroyed, but you still have a ton of other places to explore.

 

I'm in a simular situation, I suffered brain damage at the hands of an abusive mother, did not realize it until I started suffering from severe migraines in my late 30's and the damage showed up in an MRI. Like yourself I was rather clumsy and took a little longer to process things. I've had repeated MRI's because of liasons that appeared in my white matter about 5 years ago. Unfortunitly it looks like I may have MS, I'll have the Lumbar Puncture this week so I should know in about a month. Anyway the damage to the gray matter hasn't gotten better or worse. One thing my doctor did do was put me on a modified folic acid called Cyra Folin(spelling may be off) it's only avalible by prescription but it has helped me dramaticaly with memory and processing information.

 

I hate to be the nut here... But that goes without saying..

The best way to get over trauma..

1#.. Laughter..

I know Im plenty messed up and the best way to deal with pain is laughing ..

http://www.2010.laughteryogaamerica.com/program/laughing-the-trauma-away-180.php

 

The booze wiped out millions of my braincells and I can ruefully report, after 25 years of not touching a drop, they most definitely haven't grown back. IMO though, you learn to utilise some of the vast amount of untouched braincells every human goes through life never using.

 

Yeah, I was beguinning to think you were practically retarded too, judging from most of your posts I've seen....but shit dude look at you, your spelling has improved, sentences fairly intelligible, you even gave punctuation a shot... there is hope for you yet! :2thumbsup:

ZW :angel:

 

lol..I noticed White Dove spells better lately too..I just figured he was using a phone before

pretty sure we only have the cells we were born with but like someone else said we can relearn new pathways like when people get strokes and have to relearn how to talk...the stroked part is dead but other areas can take up the responsibility if you figure out a way to learn them again

 

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