All posts tagged 'TBI'

Angela-Amnesia after Brain Injury

Posted on July 24th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Part Six of Angela’s story  is at http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/amnesia-and-what-angela-cant-remember/   Actual amnesia after brain injury is much different than the way it is portrayed in the movies.  Rarely, does brain damage cause the injury person to forget who they were or life’s events.  Almost all brain injury amnesia relates to a..
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She Wants Other Survivors To Hear What She Has To Say

Posted on July 23rd, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Angela Part Five   Part Five of Angela’s story at http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/tbi-symptoms-and-stress-a-brains-decompensation-because-of-pathology/ Mood issues are pervasive after a brain injury, but can also distract diagnosticians focus from the pathology of the injury to the non-organic explanations of what happened.  In properly assessing the mood issues after Angela’s injury, it is important..
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Angela Suffers Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury in Car Truck Collision

Posted on July 20th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

TBI Voices began with the story of Angela, who suffered a complicated moderate brain injury, including a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Part One of the Angela story is at http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/the-tbi-voices-story-begins/  Unlike most of our other interviews, we began not with the words of our interview, but words of an essay Angela wrote about herself...
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TBI Recovery: Conclusion – You Never Stop Learning

Posted on July 16th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

TBI Recovery: Michael Part Thirty-Six In Michael part thirty-six and the conclusion of Michael’s story he talks about how you never stop learning about TBI recovery. Michael Concludes in Part Thirty Six – You Never Stop Learning the TBI Recovery   What is it you to say to help other..
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Severe Brain Injury Frontal Lobe Issues: Ongoing Issues After TBI

Posted on July 12th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Severe Brain Injury Frontal Lobe Issues: Michael Part Thirty Five     We discussed a series of severe brain injury frontal lobe issues throughout our interview with Michael, but two he gave me some additional information about were difficulties with changes in routine and insight. How Michael Deals with his Severe..
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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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Chronic Unemployment after Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted on July 6th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Chronic Unemployment after TBI- Michael Part Thirty-One In Part Thirty-One Michael talks about his chronic unemployment after his brain injury and how difficult it was for him to keep a job. At some point, two many jobs, for too short of time catches up with the disabled person, trying to..
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Getting Along with Co-Workers a Brain Injury Challenge

Posted on July 5th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Getting Along with Co-Workers: Michael Part Thirty Perhaps the single biggest challenge for someone returning to work after a brain injury is the challenge of getting along with co-workers. Work is increasingly so not a place where an employee does his job in isolation.  As employment environments have become less..
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Traumatic Brain Injury Symptoms Interfered With Work

Posted on June 29th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Traumatic Brain Injury Symptoms: Michael Part Twenty Eight Michael talks about working with traumatic brain injury symptoms and the effect the limitations that traumatic brain injury symptoms cause. There’s a list of criteria that the Social Security Administration publishes in terms of the mental abilities it takes to be able..
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