At some point during this 43 year "trip" I've spent living with a brain injury, I got fed up: too much of my mental energy was being spent getting frustrated and angry because of things other people said to me. That was the moment I decided that I should not allow my mental health or my well being be dependent on the words of others. I saw that no matter how much I tried to ... Read On
You Are Not Broken
Once we begin to understand that something serious has happened to us, the first things we always want to know is, "When will I be all better?" Our natural reaction is to want to be fixed and have our lives magically to return to what we once were and what we once knew. And we want to do it fast. Fixing Things We are a society of fixers. When your car is on the ... Read On
“Stuff” I Have Forgotten Since My TBI
Of course there have been many things - all kinds of things - I have forgotten at some point since my TBI, but I'm not talking here about everyday things. I don't mean it the same way that we TBI survivors have become used to: those memory problems that plague us daily and won't go away. Forgetting in our daily lives is something we are all familiar with. We forget things ... Read On