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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964205603321

Autore

Calderwood Lynsey <1978->

Titolo

Cracked : recovering after traumatic brain injury / / Lynsey Calderwood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Pub., 2003

ISBN

9786610447015

9781280447013

128044701X

9781417553679

1417553677

9781846421747

1846421748

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Disciplina

617.4/810443/092

B

Soggetti

Brain damage - Patients - Rehabilitation - Great Britain

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223).

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.