After a brain injury the brain may have difficulty controlling sleep patterns. During the recovery process many teens need more sleep as they heal. This may not be a problem until the teen returns to school and activities.
Teens may:
- Find they need extra sleep
- Need to ease back into activities
- Feel “overloaded” or exhausted after school or after a few classes
- Require extra time to get up and going in the morning
- Be extra sensitive to noise or distractions
- Be more irritable when tired
- Struggle more with memory when tired