Brain Training Games
Hi everyone
I'm on EnableMe quite a bit. I can say that is because as a Long Term Survivor I care about how people are after they have experienced a stroke. The complexities of how everyone is affected differently and how suffering in silence is a difficult and lonely road.
I did that for way to long - tried to soldier on when I didn't know where to turn.
Sometimes I would come across something which would "ignite"me. I can say that about brain training games. I did not know what a positive affect completing these games regularly would have for me.
I was even exposed to thinking computer games in re-hab when I think back. I needed to complete a game called "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego" I loved this as an alternative to the rote sentences I had in speech therapy. The idea was I would need to get Carmen to the correct country to solve a mystery. I didn't do it correctly a lot of the time, however I recall I found it stimulating.
So years later when I came across fair dinkum Brain Training Games, I devoured them. Already a keen Sudoku puzzler, I started of not knowing what I would gain from this repetitive training.
The first thing I noticed was they improved my ability to focus, I can say the feeling I got from doing these games repetitively especially in the first instance - it was like scratching an itch that needed to be scratched. I didn't take notice on how I compared with others, I took notice on how the game made me feel and think.
I subscribe to a popular site which keeps stats on how my performance has improved over the years, this is all as I am getting older, family life becoming more complex as kids move into adulthood and my work is consuming.
I have done my training today - with extra appreciation for where I know it has taken me over the years.
Cheerio
Sue Bowden