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"You Look Great!" -- Living Inside a Brain Injury

John Byler's short film offers a rare view of what it's like to live with traumatic brain injury.

My Strategies for Surviving Social Minefields

Remembering to follow survival tips is probably the most important thing you can do to live better with even a mild brain injury.

Living a Complicated Life After Brain Injury

Recently, life unfolded in a way I never saw coming. The raw, gut-level emotional pain was unimaginable. And for the first time ever, I decided that a topic was too raw, too real, and too emotional to even consider writing about. Until now.

PTSD Fact Sheet: Finding a Therapist

Tips for finding a therapist.

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4 Essential Steps to Getting the Most Out of Support Tools

The Center on Brain Injury Research & Training offers the following suggestions for how to teach, practice, and review selected support tools.

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Have You Seen My Old Life?

Over the last few years, I have come to the slow realization that there is no way to wholly rebuild a life shattered by traumatic brain injury. There will always be a few pieces that are missing.

Shattering the One Year Myth

Like so many others who share my fate, I get a bit reflective every year around TBI anniversary time. I now allow myself to look to the future with hope, a realistic hope that I will continue to heal. But there was a day that someone stole my hope and left me completely and utterly devastated.

How Is TBI Treated?

Â¿QuÃ© cuidados mÃ©dicos debe recibir un paciente con traumatismo cerebral?

How medical personnel try to stabilize the patient and assess the level of consciousness.

How Does TBI Affect the Brain?

There are a variety of immediate effects on the brain, including various types of bleeding and tearing forces that injure nerve fibers and cause inflammation, metabolic changes, and brain swelling.

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How Is TBI Diagnosed?

Diagnosis begins when you talk to a health care provider about the injury. Here is what to expect.

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Traumatic Brain Injury: Hope Through Research

Traumatismo cerebral: Esperanza en la investigaciÃ³n

This article provides an introduction to TBI, along with a glossary of medical terms associated with brain injury.

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Can Animals Help Us Heal?

It’s hard to feel safe and trust happiness after your father is nearly killed and radically changed. After your mother nearly perishes from grief. But Bianca changed the air in the room.

The Wonders of Neuroplasticity!

Little did I ever give a thought to the fact that during all those years my brain was quietly remapping in stealth mode. No smoke pouring from my ears, no smell of wood burning, all my healing was happening quietly under the hood.

Making It to Level Eight, At Last!

Growing Older with TBI

Planning for life as an aging adult should be a natural part of life. Is it any different to plan for later life as the partner of someone with a TBI?

The Slow Process of Acceptance

A couple of years ago, I was not sure if I would be able to keep the gears of life turning. Time has shown that while the gears occasionally grind, they are still in motion. I am profoundly grateful for that.

Defying Expectations after Traumatic Brain Injury

Recovery from a traumatic brain injury is not a spectator sport. By better understanding where my deficiencies were, I would be better able to work on them.

A Mission to Move: Thriving, Not Just Surviving, Following TBI

You need a mission. So says Sergeant Bill "Big Sarge" Hansen, a former Marine and a current mentor with the Wounded Warrior Project®. Today Sgt. Hansen has a clear mission: to provide mentorship and support to young veterans carrying the physical and emotional scars of war.

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Two Powerful New Brain Injury Books

As a caregiver, wife, and mother, I have found great solace in sharing my story. I have also learned a great deal from reading first-hand experiences of people who have survived a TBI. I recently read two new books about brain injury that I'd like to share. Both stories add new insight into the way we experience traumatic brain injury in our own lives.

Drawing on the Strength of Military Families

We talk a lot about the challenges that military families face but we also need to talk about the tremendous strength that they bring to those challenges.

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Setting Goals and Solving Problems

Family and co-parenting strategies for dealing with anger and other serious symptoms related to TBI and PTSD.

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How a Parent's Brain Injury (TBI) Affects Children and Adolescents

How a Parent's TBI and/or PTSD Affects Children

Children have a unique experience of PTSD and TBI -- they're young, they may not fully understand what is going on, and they are usually are not provided the information they need. Dr. Stephen Cozza discusses the different ways a parent's brain injury and/or PTSD may affect children.

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Fractured Family Tales

Family life after brain injury? It’s complicated. People walk out of your life without explanation, without just cause, leaving you to wonder what the heck happened.

How Transparent is Too Transparent?

I feel like I have mastered the face-to-face challenges I used to confront when asked about my health. But it’s my written work that still often causes me angst. Like a human-sized pendulum, I swing back and forth about how much I should share. How transparent is too transparent?

Building a "Survivor Family" After Traumatic Brain Injury

Looking back with the benefit of hindsight, I now see that my family was not fractured. It was slowly being rebuilt as a new kind of family — a survivor family.