In 1996, I had a stroke at the age of 23. Life needed to be changed. Any heavy and messy nights outs ended and becoming healthy was the road to travel. This was fine as I was heading this way, though at a slower pace.
Over the years I found that how my mind developed, depended upon how my body became stronger. I have been told "that physical mobility does not affect my mind". This should be true in most cases. Yet, I found (and still do) that as my body became more movable, so my thoughts clear up. I can now communicate with growing clarity.
One positive result to come from my accident is that I began to write. I started to simply type as many thoughts about my favorite subject, fantasy. This was to help my left hand become more flexible and to help my memory return.
Eventually I thought that the writing could be turned into a novel. I did this and am still creating my book. The story is finished, though I am editing. Again, as my mobility improved, so did my writing.
I can see and feel that as my body becomes more balanced; all movements are becoming increasingly natural and do not need to be directly thought about. So, my mind does not need to continually think about the physical. I believe that more of my brain can be given over to writing and this is a reason why my writing keeps improving (I hope).
With the capacity of our brain's being huge, I think that even though some of mine was damaged, enough should have taken over to compensate any loss. This does not seem to be the case. Everyone's brain is different to the next one and will cope in various ways to trauma, I guess.
Of course, any improvement in me may simply be because of the passing of time. Though I know that effort is needed to be made if you are to beat any problems you have.
