Archive for January, 2011

Brain Injury Emotions: Part Fifteen of Angela’s Story Angela’s Brain Injury Emotions caused another huge problem.  In any customer relations job she would be dealing with adverse emotions from customers. Handling angry customers has become very difficult.  Before the accident she could handle them with ease.  She now takes things..
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Brain Injury Mistakes: Part Fourteen of Angela’s Story Perhaps the biggest obstacle for reemployment for someone with a brain injury is the issue with brain injury mistakes and reliability.  Angela was someone who prided herself in the accuracy of her work pre-injury. That’s what I won awards for.  Quality of..
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Brain Injury Reemployment : Part Thirteen of Angela’s Story Brain Injury Reemployment can be the  most tangible loss suffered after a TBI is with respect to the ability to make a living, what we would call a vocational loss or disability. A superficial glimpse into Angela’s videos may leave the..
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Brain Injury Logorrhea : Part Twelve of Angela’s Story Another prevailing symptom of those with a frontal brain injury is the inability to know when to stop talking (which is known as brain injury logorrhea).  While there have been many explanations for this trait, poor judgment, self monitoring, self control,..
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Brain Injury Stress: Part Ten of Angela’s Story One of the hard lessons Angela learned in her efforts to return to work was  how much brain injury stress interacted with her other cognitive challenges, to make everything work worse.  In a controlled environment, an impaired attentional capacity may not create..
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Neuropsychiatrist: Part Nine of Angela’s Story Despite the struggles she was  having at work no neuropsychiatrist made the connection that she had problems related to a brain injury.  Despite a  four day hospitalization, she was sent back out into the community with no brain injury rehabilitation, no information on what..
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Brain Injury Accommodations: Part Seven of Angela’s Story Brain injury accommodations for Angela’s story, as all stories, jumps around between present and past.  Questions about past memory problems often lead to answers about current memory functioning.  Brain injured individuals are always told to write things down. “I had a lot..
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Amnesia: Part Six of Angela’s Story Amnesia is portrayed in the movies as this curtain that falls, blackness before and after, a totally confused person, who doesn’t know who they are, or anything about the life they had lived.  Real life amnesia is different, it often begins with the point..
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TBI Survivor: Angela’s part Eleven We talked to another half a dozen people about who Angela was before  she was a TBI survivor, going back to high school and throughout her professional career.   Each of these interviews gave us  a different perspective, but they all had a similar theme: Angela..
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Brain Injury Symptoms and Stress: Part Five of Angela’s Story One of Angela’s biggest brain injury symptoms after the accident is what happens to her cognitive and emotional abilities when she gets stressed.  Yet before the accident, she was like the “big game” player, who the more the stress the..
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