TBI Voices

Brain Injury Story Project: TBI Voices The Brain Injury Voice is not the voice we would expect to hear.  It is not a voice of confusion, not a voice of dementia. Rather the Brain Injury Voice is a troubled voice.  It is a voice that can often articulate that which..
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Listening to the Brain Injury Voice of Despair Angela speaks to the “brain injury voice of despair” in the next essay.   The harsh nature of Angela’s loss and her perception of that loss is clearer. I, Angela Jones would like to announce my recent death on December 26, 2010..
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TBI: Angela’s Story Part Three TBI Starts in an Instant The events leading up to the TBI caused by a car wreck:  It is a quick stop at Wal-Mart before work on June 19;  the next recollection it is 4th of July, Angela’s sister is calling, wondering why she has..
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Brain Injury Survivor: Angela’s Story Part Four We are now at the point of Angela’s brain injury survivor story where it is time to hear her voice.  Though the benefit of YouTube, we are able to integrate clips from that interview into this narrative, to help you hear her voice. ..
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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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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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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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Brain Injury Return to Work: Part Eight of Angela’s Story Sadly, even a chronological discussion of Angela’s post accident period, seems to have treatment and return to work confused.  After recovering from her bruises, she went back to work, right after the 4th of July, at a time she was..
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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 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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