Physical

• Fatigue, difficulties and sleeping, insomnia

• Challenges with walking, sitting, moving from one location to another, bathing and household tasks

• Slurred Speech

• Chronic pain, headaches

• Seizures, vertigo (sensation of dizziness/ spinning/ loss of balance)

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Cognitive

• Needing more time to process information

• Difficulty with making plans, decisions, organizing and beginning tasks

• Challenges with communicating: understanding and making conversations, finding the right word, speaking in proper sentences, understanding cures

• Difficulty writing

• Difficulty with concentration, easily distracted

• Difficulty with memory, learning, reasoning and judgement

• Preservation: getting stuck on a single topic, idea, or activity either in conversation or actions

• Loss/ changes or senses and perceptions: sensations, sense of smell or taste, vision, double vision, hearing, swallowing

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Emotional

• Feeling irritable, having a 'short fuse'

• Depression, anxiety, anger

• Prone to sudden, extreme emotions for no clear reason

• Showing a limited emotional response to situations

• Feelings of loss of identity

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Behavioural

• Engaging in risky behaviour, impulsive

• Lack of a 'filter', saying things that are inappropriate

• Isolating oneself

• Difficulty with social and work relationships

• Changing/ inconsistent sleep patterns

• Change in role: often from being independent to relying on others for care and support

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