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What may not be recovered for many is all of the individual's pre-injury functions at their pre-injury levels, nor all of the goals and hopes once held. For some people who experience TBI, this is a loss that leads to chronic upset and depression. But for many others, the loss becomes an accepted part of the stream of life and they move on to claim new hopes and new satisfactions. For maximal recovery, several factors are essential to the individual with TBI:
- The person with TBI must have social supports: to encourage him/her, to help gain access to available resources and to build bridges to wider community networks.
- The individual with TBI must gain access to a service network that is able to address the person's individual needs and teach the skills needed to compensate for losses and to define and achieve his/her goals.
- The person with TBI must have access to accurate information, responsive to needs that vary over time.
- The person with TBI must be able to draw upon inner resources and values.
This is a lifelong process, not a one- or two-step course of action. The challenge is tremendous, but many succeed in staying with the challenge to help themselves and their loved ones. The key is finding resources outside the self to bolster resources within.
This information is from www.tbicentral.org, the website of the Traumatic Brain Injury Research Group at Mount Sinai School of Medicine funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education.
From Mount Sinai Medical Center. www.mssm.edu.
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