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Some individuals with TBI largely move away from the notion of "recovering" the pre-injury self. They reach a point, instead, when they view the losses/changes/deficits as "simple facts" or even "opportunities." For these people, terms such as "devastation" and "loss" get redefined and no longer are seen as applying to them. Their injury has let them see other possibilities for their lives than what they saw before injury. These possibilities may be just as (or more) satisfying to the person with TBI than what was "in store" for them prior to injury.
From Mount Sinai Medical Center. www.mssm.edu.
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This article is actually quite encouraging! I am a year and four months past my severe TBI, after which I was unconscious for eleven days. I am an honor graduate of Harvard and was a college professor until my injury, so it's nice to be encouraged by the acknowledgment that while my life is very different now, it's far from over, and I can still find ways to be valuable and contribute.
Feb 13th, 2011 12:53am