Grocery Shopping with a Brain Injury: 8 Tips for Conquering Mission Impossible
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Learn why grocery shopping is one of the hardest tasks for many people with brain injuries. And learn a few tricks to make it more manageable. Please add your tips in the comment section!
Also hear from a doctor who explains it more scientifically here: • Traumatic Brain Injury...
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"There is nothing wrong with you. You should just go to therapy and talk about your FEELINGS."
Thank goodness I kept fighting! The gaslighting is DANGEROUS! Beautifully done!
This channel is heaven sent, my nephew is suffering with a severe traumatic brain injury this is his second year and I have been binge watching your videos since yesterday which is when I found your channel. What a blessing thank you so much you have no idea the impact your channel is having on so many people all around the globe, I am based in the U.K. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. x
FINALLY!!! Someone who gets it! No one seems to get it even when I tell them! Can’t count how many times my brain shut down in a grocery store and finding myself confused just standing in an aisle crying then having to leave! Ooohhh, I always suspected those lights!
I was always told that the lights aren't flickering and forced to live in rooms like that as a child after getting no help after a concussion.
Thanks! Your tips are so helpful. And your descriptions of what to look for/or avoid help me to be a little bit more causative in my life. And since I am ALWAYS working with less brain... every little tiny improvement is a big deal in my universe.
Thanks again! 🙏
Thanks for producing this resource
Thank you so much.. You are spot on and I will be picking up all you mentioned. You are an angel🤗
Thank you SO much for this!! I am going to send it to all my friends and family. Grocery shopping unravels me for 2-3 days. I'll try all of your tips! You rock.
Thanks for you support Debra! Try them and let me know what works for you!
2-3 days wow I thought I was the only one!
@@valdo4842 even with someone helping me shop I'm done for the next few days. its so intense.
Great video! Great advice!
I "woke up" out of my brain fog two weeks ago. I'm 32 years into recovery after falling off of a boulder as a toddler. Apparently, I was very willful and energetic even at that age. Some things, don't change apparently. Anyhow, I went grocery shopping for the first time today, by myself, after "waking up" to a more cognitive state. I thought I could handle it and instinctively did everything you suggested except for four things: Baseball Cap, Kava Kava, Shopping List and Earplugs. I found this video because I was searching for how others felt after they've gone grocery shopping. In a word, "terrifying." I made it back to my automobile after I was finished and cried. I'm going to utilize more of your tips and thank you for the Kava Kava recommendation. What you created means a lot to me as a survivor.
You are such a blessing! Thanks a ton!!
You are brilliant! Thank you so much!
Thanks so much for what you're doing! I've needed answers!
I love you!!! You get it! I'm 10 wks into my TBI from a car collision. I "look" normal, ie no broken bones (except my broken molar), but I'm so disconnected and impaired to my world. My brain is "simple," but my prior life was not, in my challenging career and as a working, single mom. Your tips are supportive in EVERY way (emotional, functional, physical, psychological etc) and I'm sharing them with 2 other TBI friends. On days I can't look at screens, I can listen to you as well! Thank you Nathalie!!
Thanks for watching and helping share these Kathleen. I am so glad they are helping you and validating your new reality. It is so hard when we look "normal" to everyone else, but our inner experience is so scrambled up. Best wishes in your recovery.
Thank you. Now I feel normal again. Knowing I'm not alone
Thank you for this. This can help my family and friends understand why I find small decisions so difficult. I used to love grocery shopping. Now if I'm looking for baby wipes and nobody specifically asks for a brand or scent, I can scan the whole section for 20 minutes. Way way too much to filter out in order to find a good count box in the right scent or none, at a good price. I wondered why this stuff takes me so long now.
Sounds like exactly what I am going through. Our experiences are very hard to explain to anyone not in our "TBI world". These videos are amazing! I wish my husband, children and close friends could watch them all to understand "the new me".
Fluorescent lights flicker at 120 flashes/sec in 60Hz North American countries, and at 100 flashes/sec in 50Hz S. American, Euro, UK, Aussie & Kiwi countries. Cheers!
Awesome tips that work for people like me recovering from protracted psych med withdrawal, not sure if you’ve heard of it but we have so many similar symptoms it’s crazy (many of us consider it a brain injury of sort and doctors don’t listen to us or try give us more meds which make it worse). Came across this idea bc my dads gf recovering from concussion and I’m recovering from iatrogenic illness and got me thinking the similarities. I haven’t been to a grocery in over six months. When I’m ready I will use these tips! 💖love your other videos too.
Thank you❤ #iSupportTbiSurvivors
I started getting seizures for the first time ever, then taken to hospital by ambulance and MRI showed brain tumor that was removed with surgery and had a stroke at the end of the surgery. The worst problems I have are having strength to do anything past 10 min, executive function problems like planning, memory, judgment. It's been 4 years now. I had to learn to walk again and I can but I wonder if I'll ever have the strength to be up and around for more than 10 min again.
The glasses are huge in helping.. I have yet resorted to a hat but with spring here I am realizing the sunny days are aggravating sadly.
Thank You!! I thought I was going crazy for not being willing to grocery shop anymore 🙏🏾
Scott Peterson I don’t either it’s overwhelming
Thank you soooooo much for this! Grocery shopping is something I DREAD after my TBI. It use to relax me before and now it Stresses me out soo bad. I have literally left grocery stores crying because I'm so overwhelmed by being in there. This really helped me and I'm going to buy that oil ASAP. Thank you again!!
ah thats why my vision gets like that, peripheral vision. still relearning what was lost.
Thank you, I am in.my 3rd week of testing and rehab after fighting workers comp from Oct. 15, 2015, still have a bit of denial. But your videos are a Godsend.
😓😢😢😭 I'm so frustrated. This is the first video that explains just a little of what i feel but you look like youre well adapted. Pray i get better 😢😢😢
Much Dutch it takes time and effort. I’m sure she didn’t get where she is overnight
You're great! I'm learning SO MUCH! I've had this acquired brain injury my whole life and from ages 20-25 worked in groceries stores and would get so sick and fatigued so quickly. I had no idea I had the ABI but your videos are opening my eyes to so much. Thank you!
Hi Cillloran, I am so glad these are helpful to you after such a long journey. If you can work in a grocery store, you are one tough resilient person! Be Well.
I just learned of Sensory Shopping days/hour at my local Safeway, today from 2-3pm but apparently, they have them at many grocery stores, and even Best Buy
👍😎🤙 Maybe Costco has one? Wishful thinking?
yeah, it was the only blessing from the covid lockdowns for me. First hour of opening was very nice to go through. I could never handle a saturday with lines and all the noises and movements.
Fascinating
Here’s a tip order things online and just pick them up
Spot on! I wear a ball cap and sunglasses everywhere...church,friends homes, dr appointments, shopping. I carry ear plugs in my purse just in case. I also only go into the small grocery stores where I know the set up of where things are located. If I can't find something, I ask a worker to lead me to the item. I can't be scanning the store looking for it. No way can I handle Target stores but you can order online what you need and they will get it ready to pick up at customer service for you in a few hours. Helps to do that and save my husband from trying to understand my list as well! I'm very interested in trying the kava kava! I totally had a brain "OFF" switch hit last week while getting to a dr appointment and the appt ended up a disaster with me unable to think or make a decision. I had no "crisis" battery left and took days to regain even the B battery charge. Does the kava kava help keep your batteries going a bit longer??
Wonderful video re: Grocery Shopping! That is always the hardest part of my week, I was already doing some of the things you suggest but will be adding the kava kava and ear plugs for my next shopping outing. Thank you for sharing these helpful videos.
I do all the shopping for my household, and it has been so difficult over the last few years. Especially, since getting remarried. I am very happy you have these positive videos to help out those of us with TBI. The funny thing is, that I’ve been unconsciously adapting some of these tools to cope with the inundation of daily environmental stimulation by almost always wearing dark glasses.
A friend directed me to your video. I suffer from Chiari and these are actually very helpful tips. Thank you for sharing this. I was doing the cart thing but am going to add the hat and all to it too. I have nystagmus and the lights are horrible for me.
I inadvertently grocery shop as u do: cap, glasses, mask, headphones, tho no cart, but I want to try your kava kava tincture, instead of my CBD oil, I like options. I'm also looking for FL-41 indoor sunglasses, as I've become dark-adapted, making me more light-sensitive. Or those irlen lenses as u suggested. Thank you for this validation, it's not just all in my head 😝
CBD oil not working for you? Am 9 months PCS just started using CBD oil
@@valdo4842 it works, but it has some thc and I want one that I can take across the border for shopping in the US, I'm from 🇨🇦
I don’t go to grocery store 🏬 anymore I have to do online shopping 🛍 the stores r so overwhelming n makes me so sick n dizzy n makes me anxious
Natalie! Stumbled on these videos. You go girl!
Thanks honey!
Spot on!! This video hit all my buttons! I live in a small town where people don't talk about "brain injury"... The stigma 8-{ So, while I wear my baseball cap and sunglasses, and am hanging on to my shopping cart, people think I'm drunk, on drugs, and crazy. I would love to introduce your channel to our local clinic... Will be ordering the Kava Kava for sure!
Please do share! I could use some help spreading these far and wide. My circle is not that big and I count on my TBI friends to help spread the awareness of what we are dealing with. Thank you!
When i explained symptoms to the doc yesterday he said it sounds more like psychological issues. I was beside myself. Hard enough trying to do simple things like making an appt and driving there myself. How do you understand what's happening exactly but an ER doc doesnt. Very frustrating.
We have all heard that and I know how damaging that is. I am so sorry. It is NOT psychological, it is a physical issue affecting you psychologically. You are not crazy. You are injured. Remember that and don't let them get to you. Wishing you all the best.
Brain Recovery Coach - thank YOU 😢😭 I'm in tears that you understand. I agree that my injury has taken a toll on me mentally and I feel alone. But lapses in memory, logic and judgement is different. I used to be an independent detailed person and now I want to be taken care of and like simplicity. Thanks for listening.
Stay strong and you will see better days again...☺️
Most docs don't get it, they think it's "all-in-our-heads" that we're making it up. But it's all in my head, literally. I had & still have a leftover inoperable brain tumor remnant, and still at GF Strong rehab hospital, one year post-op they Dx'ed me as SSD, Somatic Symptoms Disorder, that I'm exaggerating my symptoms... I wish my migraines were made up, or aphasia or right-side foot drop, vision issues, brain fog were too. But nope, these i gotta live with & find my own way.
PCS or Long CoViD docs are more helpful
@@danielsingh9415 I'm so sorry your pain and pray with each day it heals so you can feel better
Another great video Natalie! I already had the sunglasses, ear plugs and shopping list figured out, but now I'll sport a baseball cap, and check into Kava-Kava! Oh, others things that help me: as I have also have Polyostolic Fibrous Dysplasia and am prone to pathological fractures (fractures that can happen with almost no force) , I have decided to use a motorized cart in the store for safety reasons - as my (lack of) balance is my most obvious outward manifestation of the TBI. I feel very self-conscious, but better that than a broken bone! Again, thank you and I'm sending you hugs.
I love these tips!! I often get tripped up at the cash register and bagging. It seems I am somewhat ok until there. When the groceries come spitting out the other side and there is no bagger. My words don't work to say I need help and can't figure out the bagging.
I just gave up and would buy premade food from a restaurant and only go shopping for 3-5 items.
Those self serve machines are too much, the screen, all the prompts, I kept messing up trying to buy some socks. Then when you shut down and can't communicate at all, I try to hand gesture for help, wish I could grab the pen and paper in my pocket, but I will be too knocked out to even come up with that idea.
I hope you are doing better
Have you gotten a eye exam for binocular vision dysfunction I hear it helps if they add a prism
Prism is very helpful for many people. They won't work for me though since my eyes move in opposite directions. Thanks!
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Hi Miss. K. Its rough. Paul Smith, your friend in Knoxville TN.
dont look across the store the lights will startle you, try to look downward at all times, the first walmart trip after sah was unbearable and i felt like screaming and running out of there. I learned not to make eye contact with the lights, lol tc thanks for these helpful videos!where were you 7 yrs ago???, lol tc
are you kidding me?!? tinted glasses.... ear plugs.... visor ... AND A LIST? ??? PLEASE .... do a video on how I'm supposed to FIND all this stuff! thank you Natalie kelly!
I know it can be really frustrating when we all have different levels of ability. I understand that frustration. Figuring this out did not come easily and has taken me a few years of public meltdowns. That is why I make these videos hoping to give others a few short cuts. Ordering everything on Amazon Prime might be a lifesaver if you are able to use a computer. They have visors and earplugs and kava tincture and sunglasses. Asking family or friends for help is sometimes the only option. Hang in there!
Thank you for all your helpful videos. I am a carer to my husband who had a brain stem stroke a few years ago and your videos and advice help me care for him and understand him better. I wish I had seen your clips and heard about your story years ago. Thank you!!!
How much do you say you take of kava kava? I cant hear it :)
I take one dropperful and hold it in my mouth for 3 minutes. it burns! It will relax your brain for 20 mins so you can tolerate more sensory input. My best friend!
Sometimes it helps to turn on the closed captions feature on RUclips, or read the transcript 👍
It all sounds good but I am 16 years sober. So I am going to decline your herbs.
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Does it ever get better to where you go back to normal?
Sometimes, but setbacks happen too. Always go prepared for a "bad brain day" so when ur triggered, u have a backup plan. U can retreat to the car & reset, take ur kava kava or CBD oil, and try again. Or do a full retreat, 2moro is another day. Tho when I'm triggered, it takes a few days to fully recover 😝