After a car accident, six-year-old California girl Zoe Bernstein was in a coma for about a month. And when she woke up, she turned out to be completely different from her former self.
Before the accident, he was a happy, healthy, obedient child. On that day, she was put into the family's pickup truck and strapped in as required by safety regulations. On the way, at some point, her father lost control and crashed into a pole. Zoe was taken to the hospital with a fractured skull. And a month later the baby came to her senses. Her mother claims that the girl's personality has changed completely.
Could a brain injury "settle" another person inside you? Let's figure it out.
How serious was Zoe's injury?
“She had to re-learn to eat, use the toilet, brush her teeth, put on shoes - absolutely everything,” says the mother. - When Zoe woke up, she could not speak. We started from the very beginning”.
What is personality change?
“She has become a completely different person. Zoe developed what is called attention deficit disorder. The exemplary child has turned into a little bully. Although, maybe this is not so bad - after the accident, she began to look more like her peers. On the other hand, this is a completely different girl, and the one, the former Zoe, who was before the accident, most likely, will never return."
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Has anything similar happened to other people?
Cases of personality change as a result of trauma, although extremely rare, do occur.
Two years ago, a 13-year-old Croatian woman survived a car accident. In her case, the coma lasted 24 hours. When she woke up, she found herself fluent in German. Before that, the girl tried to learn the language at school - but, to put it mildly, without much success.
Twenty-six-year-old macho, beer-goer and British rugby player Chris Birch fell into a coma in 2011 after being hit hard during training. “When I woke up, I realized very quickly that my orientation had changed. I became gay and took it for granted."