I feel brain dead...?
I just turned 24 and for the past 4 years I've been feeling with what feels like my brain is dead. I can't concentrate, very forgetful, can't grasp information and hardto carry out conversations. My brain feels like its shrinked or I'm using half. Kinda like its cloudy. Sometimes I sit it bed in cry because my brain feels so empty and I have no emotion to it. I feel like its empty. And like its dead literally. I'm sometimes hitting my head because it feel numb and empty and I get angry when I get that intense empty feeling. Funny thing is j got the way after I got diagnosed with a thyroid issue. I can't live like this. I feel like I have dementia or senile. I feel like I'm slowly slipping into a coma
What would it be like to be brain dead?
You wouldn't know what it is like to be brain dead because there are no thought processes to remember. It's not like a dream, it's more like passing out from too many "G forces" of gravity and not being able to think at all anymore. The tunnel of light with comfort at the end is the normal sensation of the brain starving of oxygen approaching brain death. Once there are no "bumpy" brain EEG signals for a surprisingly short interval (a couple of minutes), they can't come back no matter what extraordinary medical methods are applied. So brain death is legally death in 43 of our states. An individual does not come "back" from a "persistent vegetative state." You can shut off the machines and call the funeral parlor. The Christian right made fools out of themselves over Terri Shiavo --she was ALREADY with Jesus. There's a very interesting 1990 movie about this with Keifer Sutherland and Kevin Bacon called "Flatliners."
What is it like to be brain dead?
Brain death is a legal definition of death that refers to the irreversible end of all brain activity (including involuntary activity necessary to sustain life) due to total necrosis of the cerebral neurons following loss of blood flow and oxygenation. It should not be confused with a persistent vegetative state. The concept of brain death emerged in the 1960s, as the ability to resuscitate individuals and mechanically keep the heart and lungs functioning became prevalent. So no one can answer this question if they have been diagnosed as legally brain dead. If you are truly brain dead you are dead and free of all pain, thought and life. P.S.- I am sorry to hear about your friend! But, rest assured he is already free of his human condition and has been for some time prior to his being taken of life support. He was in no pain during this time and thus will be in no pain when he is taken off life support.
Is being brain-dead the same as being dead?
There are several ethical debates regarding this question. However, the term "brain dead" is somewhat of a cultural misnomer and suggests that there are two different types of dead: body and brain. Once your brain has stopped working, so has the rest of your body. Ethics classically has never discriminated between the two. The issue arises when someone can remain after a ventilator after brain function has ceased. Many of the state laws mandate that death is the "irreversible cessation of all body functions," or something to that effect. The person is dead on a ventilator, but not 100% legally dead because the ventilator keeps circulation going. We know that without a brain, all body functions will cease, but a ventilator kind of creates the illusion that the person is alive. It gets very confusing, especially with the condition called PVS, or persisting vegetative state. In this case, the person is still alive, brain function remains, but they are non-responsive and comatose. As to your question, a dead person on a ventilator would not feel pain. A person in a PVS could, which is why organs aren't harvested from people in a PVS. As for corpse question, a corpse can't be ventilated because after a short period of time, tissues undergo necrotic death that is irreversible. Blood separates into its components. Once these have taken place, trying to ventilate a corpse would have no effect due to the irreversible damage and blood coagulation. Hope this helps. Check out debates on "personhood" and "ethical/legal definitions of death" for more info.
How do people deal with being brain dead?
Being brain dead is also called a persistent vegetative state. Basically, being brain dead means that all higher cognitive functioning in the brain is no longer detectable. Most of the time, if a person is brain dead, the only thing keeping them alive is the machines that stimulate breathing and heart beat. How do people who are brain dead deal with being like that? Although there are rare cases where a person can recover from that kind of condition, normally people eventually die or are taken off of life support. As far as what it is like to be like that, if I had to guess I would think it would be like deep and dreamless sleep. They probably have no awareness of what is going on around them. There is a difference between coma and being brain dead. Coma patients still exhibit some neural activity in the brain - particularly areas dealing with memory, consciousness and higher thought. Some people in a coma retain some awareness of their surroundings. Which is why doctors recommend talking to a person who is a coma to try to stimulate brain activity. Brain death can also refer to brain atrophy. In this case, for what ever the reason, the brain is partially or completely dead. Meaning there is no neural activity in the brain at all. Usually the only reason why you'd keep a person like that alive is so that you can harvest their organs if they are an organ donner.
How can you describe being brain dead?
Brain death occurs when a person has an irreversible, catastrophic brain injury, which causes total cessation of all brain function (the upper brain structure and brain stem). Brain death is not a coma or persistent vegetative state. Brain death is determined in the hospital by one or more physicians not associated with a transplantation team.Some causes of brain death include :Trauma to the brain (i.e. severe head injury caused by a motor vehicle crash, gunshot wound, fall or blow to the head)Cerebrovascular injury (i.e. stroke or aneurysm)Anoxia (i.e. drowning or heart attack when the patient is revived, but not before a lack or blood flow/oxygen to the brain has caused brain death)Brain tumor-SSK
What does being brain dead feel like?
There seems to be some very basic confusion here. “Feeling” — in both the sensory and emotional senses of the term — are phenomena that are impossible without the brain, to which our nervous system reports all its data, and which generates the consciousness that is capable of experiencing those data as “feeling.” If the brain is dead, subjectivity is annihilated and all feeling ceases. Brain death is, therefore, by definition a condition that does not “feel like” anything whatsoever. What consciousness would be there to feel it? Who is the brain dead person, if (s)he is no longer capable of sensory or cognitive experience? No one.Brain death, therefore, feels like nothing. It is a condition that annihilates consciousness, and all “we” are, qua selves and experiencing subjects, are consciousnesses attached to a bunch of non-conscious autonomic responses and processes. Those too depend entirely on a functional brain. The brain is the sine qua non for any discussions of what things are or “feel like” for sentient beings.
Are christians braindead?
YOUR THE KIND OF MAN THAT SOMEONE WOULD USE AS A BLUE PRINT TO BUILD AN IDIOT.
Can a person survive from being brain dead?
No, a person who is brain dead can't live.. without machines... but a person can have damage to the brain.. and be in a coma and needs to be on live saving machines which breathe for the person, which feed the person.. but they are not really brain dead.. they are comatose.. some people have been in a coma for 10 years ... very rare occasions and they woke up from that.. they had to learn again to talk and simple things.. but some comatose people who were unconsicous for 10- years and needed to be artificially fed.. etc.. they can sometimes wake up and lead a normal life again.. they may have to relearn like a baby.. everything again.. but that happens.. but totally brain dead people are dead and nothign will ever bring them back to life.. but their body can be kept automatically alive by machines.. but the machines do all the bodily funcitons.. the breathing.. everything.. if the machines are swiitched off.. the person stops breathing.. there are comatose people.. who are deeply unconscious who don't need to be on a breathing machine.. so if they breathe on their own.. they are still alive.. and there is still hope.. but if they are totally brain dead, they can only exist as long as they are connected to oxygen and heart and lung machines.. etc... they will never recover whatever happens.. it's impossible..Coma is a different matter.