The Isolation of Brain Damage Liberation Psychology Home Page Marlene Hoerle using her AlphaSmart keyboard. So much of how we share and connect takes place around shared memories. When memory becomes a central issue, and memory loss is such a loud factor, sharing is often sad and painful. It can't be shared. Sadness and isolation are immediate replacements.
Brain damage exacts a heavy toll, yet again.
The isolation must be dealt with if there is to be any intimacy with ourselves or each other. To deal with it translates into allowing ourselves to feel it, name it, and express it. By sharing the feelings of isolation it is already not an isolating experience. It immediately takes us to sadness, together, within ourselves and with each other. Sad together the isolation is broken and intimacy occurs.