All posts tagged 'severe brain injury'

TBI Survivors Network: Started for Traumatic Brain Injured

Posted on January 29th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

TBI Survivors Network: Craig Part Twenty Six  Craig tells us about how and why he started the TBI Survivors Network and how it has helped many traumatic brain injury survivors and continues to grow.   So TBI survivors network is something you started? Correct. Is TBI survivors network a non-profit,..
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Traumatic Brain Injury Survivors Advocacy Overview

Posted on January 28th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Traumatic Brain Injury Survivors Advocacy: Craig Part Twenty Five I discussed the traumatic brain injury survivors advocacy groups that Craig is either a part of or that he started himself. Community College Traumatic Brain Injury Support So, you’re currently part of a community college? I assist here.  They use my..
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TBI Support: Survivor Based Traumatic Brain Injury Support

Posted on January 25th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

TBI Support: Craig Part Twenty Four  Craig goes on to say how important TBI support can be and how much trouble he had finding TBI support from other survivors. Not A Lot of TBI Support You went through this period of some down times and writings and music, then what?..
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Brain Injury Personality Change: TBI Survivor Can Be Better

Posted on January 24th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Brain Injury Personality Change: Craig Part Twenty Three  Craig embellishes on his brain injury personality change from who he was before his brain injury personality changes to who he is now.  What he did after. How his brain injury personality change drove him to different avenues such as starting and..
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Making Decisions, Amnesia and Inhibition as TBI Challenges

Posted on January 23rd, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Making Decisions: Craig Part Twenty Two  Craig discusses some of the challenges he incurred on his job all of which are typical of a survivor of traumatic brain injury.  Making decisions is one of them. Along with making decisions he also struggled with amnesia and inhibitions.  Amnesia Now, you said..
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Working Post TBI: Difficulty Dealing with Work Compromises

Posted on January 22nd, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Working Post TBI: Craig Part Twenty One Craig talk about what it was like working post TBI and dealing with work compromises.  He describes his understanding boss and how that made things easier.   I’d like to focus on two main areas where we’ve talked about – what happened at..
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Brain Injury Headaches Brought Severe Pain

Posted on January 16th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

 Brain Injury Headaches : Craig Part Seventeen  Craig discusses the pain involved with brain injury headaches.  Brain injury headaches so bad that they interrupt his sleeping and his vision.   One of the things that often gets lost in the shuffle when we talk, teach and counsel about brain injury, is..
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Speech Therapist Helps in Transition After TBI

Posted on January 15th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Speech Therapist Helps in Transition: Craig Part Sixteen  Craig continues to talk about his speech therapist and how she helped him in transitioning out of therapy.  She hung in there with him even though funds ran out.   During the time you have therapy, you’re getting someone to basically be..
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Cognitive Therapy: Learning to Avoid the Overwhelming

Posted on January 14th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Cognitive Therapy: Craig Part Fifteen  Craig talks about the kind of cognitive therapy he received and the different issues that this type of therapy dealt with and helped him with. Now, you said you had a separate person that was helping you with cognitive therapy. Correct. The Difference Between Cognitive..
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Frontal Lobe Issues: No Preparation Before Discharge

Posted on January 7th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Frontal Lobe Issues: Craig Part Eleven Craig discusses some of the problems that he is having with frontal lobe issues and how there wasn’t any preparation for this when he was discharged. Amnesia One of the Frontal Lobe Issues While we were off camera, you had some additional thoughts about..
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