Angela-Working With A Brain Injury

Part Thirteen Angela tells about working with TBI: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/reemployment-after-tbi-vocational-losses-persist/

Despite her clear areas of strength, Angela is nonetheless, still significantly disabled, because of the decompensation that her brain does any time it is in a potentially stressful environment.  Making matters worse, any type of distraction makes cognitive functioning harder and interruptions require her to start a task over. Further, as stress makes her excessive talking worse, she believes she would get fired for talking the customer’s ear off.

Next in Part 14- Angela talks about re-employment obstacles after brain injury