Part Seventeen – Relationships: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/impaired-relationships-and-intimacy-after-a-traumatic-brain-injury/ The need to be loved is not erased by a brain injury, just made more difficult to fulfill. Despite ongoing efforts to find self actualization in life as a wife/domestic partner, that role has also been to cognitively and emotionally taxing for her as..
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Part Sixteen- Shopping After a TBI: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/shopping-after-a-tbi-an-overload-of-the-decision-making-process/ Shopping is difficult for most brain injury survivors. Making a trip to the grocery store even harder for her is the environmental distractions, such as florescent lights or the crush of too many customers. At such times she will have a grocery..
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In Part Fifteen, Angela Discusses Dealing with Others Emotions: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/brain-injury-makes-others-peoples-emotions-catastrophic/ The old adage in business is that the customer is always right. While Angela is wired so that she values making other people happy, she now has severe difficulty any time anyone is upset with her. She is concerned..
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In Part Fourteen Angela talks about re-employment obstactles after brain injury: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/mistakes-and-reliability-two-of-the-biggest-reemployment-obstacles-after-a-brain-injury/ Before Angela got hurt, she was the person people turned to make sure everything got done by the book. Now the risk of mistakes would require someone to be constantly checking up on her. Employers can theoretically..
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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..
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Part Twelve: the frontal lobe deficit of too much talking http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/uncontrolled-talking-after-tbi-logorrhea/ One major problem with brain injury diagnosis, is that the methodologies rarely take into account real world communication challenges that many brain injured people have. One such issue with Angela is logorrhea, a tendency to talk too much,..
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In Part Eleven Angela’s own words on the consequences of TBI. http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/from-a-butterfly-to-a-tbi-survivor/ In another of Angela’s essays, she analogizes her post brain injury transformation to that of a caterpillar to a butterfly, but in reverse. Her musing traverses the question of whether she is starting over in a..
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Part Ten discusses cognitive challenges: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/stress-interacts-with-other-cognitive-challenges-after-tbi/ Stress can be extremely attentionally taxing and Angela’s memory problems increase whenever she is under stress. She would think things were under control, until the stress kicked. Stress would almost paralyze her brain, even though she knew that she should know what to..
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Part Nine tells how Angela found right doctor http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/no-tbi-diagnosis-until-referral-to-neuropsychiatrist/ The pending catastrophe that was Angela’s return to work was averted when Angela found her way to a neuropsychiatrist who took her off work and began to address the myriad of changes in her caused by her brain injury. “Miraculously..
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Part Eight Deals with Vocational Issues http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/return-to-work-from-tbi-without-treatment-or-rehabilitation/ As the severity of Angela’s brain injury was poorly understood in the first month after her injury, Angela returned to work, before, not after she got rehabilitation. While sometimes that can work, as it did with out story of Gina, it requires..
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