All posts tagged 'severe brain injury'

Psychological Medication Management for Psych Issues After TBI

Posted on July 11th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Psychological Medication Management: Michael Part Thirty-Four In part thirty-four Michael discusses the different Psychological Medications that he has been prescribed and how they effect him. You mentioned that when your mania gets to be a problem, you go through money quickly? Yes. Does the psychological medication help with that? I would say,..
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Brain Injury Time Management Challenges

Posted on July 10th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Brain Injury Time Management Challenges: Michael Part Thirty-Three In part Thirty-three Michael discusses his issues with brain injury time management that he has and the problems that it causes him. You managed to make it through the wedding. Do you have problems planning things because of brain injury time management?..
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Brain Injury Disinhibition Makes Humor Potentially Offensive

Posted on July 9th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

 Brain Injury Disinhibition: Michael Part Thirty-Two In Part thirty-one Michael talks about his brain injury disinhibition and the difficulties he has to control it in everyday life. There are a number of frontal lobe issues that you have touched on in examples and I wanted to cover some of those in..
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Emergency Room Misdiagnosis

Posted on September 2nd, 2011 · Posted in Brain Injury

Emergency Room Misdiagnosis I have become increasingly frustrated by the prevalence of missed diagnosis of brain injuries. Seemingly several times a month, I come into contact with another client whose brain injury was not diagnosed in the emergency room. Despite significant symptoms of a brain injury, survivors are discharged with..
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Brain Injury Coma Survivor Story: From College Girl to Coma Survivor

Posted on January 28th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Brain Injury Coma Survivor: Betty Part One – TBI Voices Begins its Second Story I have been doing brain injury representation for over 20 years, and there are times I swear that the condition is contagious.  Of course it isn’t, but  it is such a prolific tragedy, that as soon..
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Prosecution rests in case of brain-injured girl

Posted on November 20th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

Date: 11/20/2008 By DENISE LAVOIEAssociated Press Writer SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) _ Prosecutors wrapped up their case Wednesday against a man accused of beating his stepdaughter into a coma, triggering a right-to-die case that was resolved when the girl began to recover. Jason Strickland, a 34-year-old auto mechanic, is charged with..
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The hardest part of waiting for someone to emerge from a coma

Posted on July 24th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

From someone who felt the need to connect with our http://waiting.comcommunity: “The hardest part of waiting is the feeling of being alone. No matter how many people surround me, I feel alone. I push people away, don’t feel like talking to anyone, yet I am forced to talk. I feel..
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Vietnam TBI Still Military Health Concern

Posted on June 18th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

This post has now been moved to our new site: http://veteransbraininjury.com/vietnam-brain-injury-biggest-military-health-issue/

From an Old Contributor to waiting.com

Posted on March 20th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

Attorney Johnson: Hello. Thank you very much for the tbi law website and for the waiting.com page. It helped me a great deal to be able to communicate to others that *there is hope*. I had forgotten about waiting.com until I asked the “high functioning” TBI online support group to..
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What is a Mild Brain Injury?

Posted on March 19th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

Head injuries (or otherwise called brain injuries) have been traditionally classified into three categories, mild, moderate and severe. Mild head injuries are typically brain injuries that do not involve loss of consciousness for more than 20 minutes. Moderate involve significant loss of consciousness, but not do not involve extended coma...
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