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Starting or Nourishing Romantic Relationships After Brain Injury

Starting and Nourishing Romantic Relationships After Brain Injury

Every relationship has its ups and downs, but when a partner or spouse sustains a brain injury, other problems can arise, too.

Emilie Godwin, PhD

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Intimate Relationships

What Does It Mean to Survive?

"Life and living is the very definition of surviving. It is what the living do. Definitions are meant to change. Able to change. For the brain injured, begging to change. What does it mean to you to have survived?"

Resilience: What Is It?

Resilience can best be understood as a type of response to intense stress. By definition, resilience means "bouncing" or "returning to form."

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Help for Couples After TBI

Rosemary's sister once told her, “There’s the truth we tell others, the truth we tell ourselves, and the truth we won’t even tell ourselves” It wasn't until she was in therapy after Hugh's crash that she fully understood her sister's words.

TBI and PTSD: Navigating the Perfect Storm

Often people talk about the effects of TBI or the consequences of PTSD as separate conditions — which they are. But for the person who is living with the dual diagnosis of TBI and PTSD, it can be hard to separate them.

Brain Injury and Grief: Fact or Fiction

Grief can come in many hues of gray — from the loss of a loved one to the effects of a life event like a brain injury.

Bouncing Forward

What exactly is "resilience"? In her caregiving blog, Rosemary talks about this important ability as a way to "bounce forward" after brain injury.

"I Am Not a Vegetable, I Am a Person"

TBI can come with increased risks of other health problems like Alzheimer's, but what harm is there in choosing to live a healthy life rather than focusing on what could happen?

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Know Your Health Numbers -- Beyond TBI

Whether with a TBI or not, people need to know their numbers and get the proper tests they need — blood pressure, cholesterol, mammography, etc.

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With or Without TBI, Pursue the Unexpected Opportunities

Dr. Paul Aravich suggests that veterans with TBI should not look at their loss of capacities but rather their different capacities.

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The Importance of Focusing on a Healthy and Socially Engaged Lifestyle After TBI

For some people with TBI and their caregivers, life can feel painfully isolated. But trying to focus on one's strengths and a healthy and socially engaged lifestyle can help.

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Dealing with the Behavioral Complications of Brain Injury

Dr. Paul Aravich talks about how soldiers, veterans, and civilians can prevent and get treatment for the behavioral complications from TBI that can worsen with age.

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Reveling in the "Universe Between Our Ears" — Especially After a TBI

The philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre said that humans are "condemned to freedom." What does that mean for people with TBI and their caregivers?

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Why Is Brain Injury and Aging So Understudied?

So why are issues of aging, longevity, and the ability to be vulnerable to or resist the diseases of age with a disability like TBI so understudied?

Learning to Trust the World After a Brain Injury

Learning to trust the world, to trust caregivers, can be equally if not more effective than drugs for people with executive function or behavioral problems post-TBI.

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After Brain Injury: Focusing on the "Able" Not the "Dis" of "Disabled"

Dr. Jordan Grafman talks about the many ways caregivers and society as a whole can help people with brain injury more successfully reintegrate into their families and communities.

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How Genetic Makeup Can Influence Outcome After a Brain Injury

Dr. Jordan Grafman talks about the Vietnam Head Injury Study, started in 1981, that continues to look at the effects of brain injury on current and late-life function.

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What Does Damage to the Frontal Lobes Look Like 30 Years Post-Brain Injury?

Researchers studying Vietnam veterans with TBI are now looking more closely at how TBI can alter a person's social beliefs — from religious and political to legal and moral.

Could CTE Be Diagnosed in People Before Death?

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy can only be tested post-mortem, but George Visger, who suffers from hydrocephalus, has offered his brain for testing next time he needs brain surgery.

The Importance of Constituent-Specific TBI Support Groups

Joining a TBI support group with others dealing specifically with the same issues can make a world of difference.

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How Therapy After Brain Injury Can Help Identify the Elephant in the Room

Dr. Taryn Stejskal talks about subtly asking questions to elicit answers about the "elephant in the room" no one wants to talk about.

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The Many Benefits of Family or Couples Therapy After TBI

Family or couples therapy after a TBI can help with strategies but can also address some of the issues the family or couple may have had prior to the injury.

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Positive Ways to Reinvent Yourself After a TBI

Life is not always "candy and ponies," but for people with TBI who have lost something integral to their identity, sometimes finding the spirit of that trait can open new doors.

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"If You've Seen One Brain Injury, You've Seen ONE Brain Injury"

When Dr. Taryn Stejskal meets with couples, first she listens to their story then works with them to form strategies that work for their individual issues.

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Disability Benefits Through the Social Security Administration Are Available for People with Brain Injury

Careful preparation of the disability application is crucial to obtaining appropriate benefits for people with TBI who cannot work.

Shana De Caro, Esq.

Topic:

Finances