Personal Perspective: How can you play emotions you can’t feel? How can you read music with broken neurons?
“Thirteen studies met inclusion criteria, describing eleven distinct interventions fitting into four categories: film production, visual art, written publication and song composition. Rationale for the interventions includedreconstruction, emotional processing, sense-making, and community engagement. Varying levels of specialist materials and facilities were utilized.
Then one day I couldn’t sight read. Confusion struck me. The group I was with probably thought I wasn’t as good as I’d thought, even though I played familiar pieces as well as ever. I didn’t know until about a decade later that I’d suffered a sub-clinical concussion, and this sort of isolated loss is how it can manifest.erased my entire talent. Nine years later, it unexpectedly returned, albeit at a basic level.
As I began watching the K-Drama, I resonated with the protagonist who quit her lessons upon graduation. Then a car crash injured her wrists and fingers. Although in true television style, her wrist injuries healed fully and quickly, not reflecting reality at all, her injury igniting her passion to play the piano, to use music to express her emotions, resurrected my own memories of playing my emotions.Brain injury stole that.
I’m not alone in having to navigate back to one’s talents and skills by myself. The how of it remains an open question. But now I’m wondering if simply playing for a few minutes will reconnect me enough to create a storytelling healing effect.Candlish L, Fadyl JK, D'Cruz K. Storytelling as an intervention in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation: a scoping review. Disabil Rehabil. 2023 Jun;45:2248-2262.
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