Marissa, a university graduate student, interviewed me as part of her class project about barriers to accessing help after brain injury.

This interview was recorded roughly 20 months ago when I still had good residual speech about 70% of the time. 

We discuss immediate and delayed consequences of repetitive electrical injury caused by electroconvulsive therapy, barriers to appropriate brain injury assessment for people harmed by medical treatment, possible academic accommodations, personal strategies I tried to improve my quality of life after ECT, memory problems and how memory loss impacts personal identity and personal relationships, California Department of Rehabilitation Brain Injury Advisory Board meetings, Neuropathology findings of electrical injury (gliosis, myelin sheath injury, vascular abnormalities, chronic microbleeds, brain stem injury, acquired channelopathies, motor neuron loss, dysarthria, swallowing issues), etc.

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