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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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Community Support

Why civilian health care providers should be prepared to ask questions about combat exposure, PTSD and TBI.

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Dealing with Alcohol and Drugs

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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?

Life Goes On

Gretchen Rubin, once wrote, “The days are long, but the years are short.” She was writing about parenting and not traumatic brain injury, but as I reflect on this poignant quote, I realize that as a caregiver, even those seemingly endless days have passed with such speed that I can hardly account for the last three years of my life.

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.

Living an Unfiltered Life

Today I live an unfiltered life as my brain injury has essentially wiped away my emotional and verbal filters. No longer does anyone say, “So David, can you tell me how you really feel? These days, I am learning, often the hard way, to say less. ne times.

The Big Picture

Several hundred thousand service members have sustained TBI since 9/11. For most of these vets, the long-term challenge is dealing with profound changes in social skills and the ongoing demands of daily life.

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A Patient's Story

How one airborne soldier came back from a TBI that he sustained from a mortar blast in Iraq. From a physical standpoint, his recovery has been a miracle but the social and emotional challenges were more challenging.

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Back to the Game of Life

Dr. David Williamson, former director of the Inpatient TBI Program at Walter Reed, talks about the biggest challenge facing veterans with TBI: resuming your life as a parent, partner, spouse, friend, and citizen.

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Learning to Honor New Limitations After Brain Injury

"Forged between the hammer and anvil of pain, I slowly learned that pacing myself and really being in tune with my new-found limitations could be a game-changer." David Grant reflects on his life after his TBI.

Sleepless in Salem — Life After Brain Injury

Sleepless in Salem â€” Life After Brain Injury

Every now and again, someone will ask me how I’m sleeping these days. My reply has remained unchanged for several years. “I’ve not slept a full night since 2010.” — David Grant

Five Reasons I Love My Husband BECAUSE of His TBI

"When a loved one is radically changed after a brain injury, seldom do we focus on the positives that might have sprung from the aftermath of a traumatic injury," writes BrainLine blogger, Rosemary Rawlins.

4 Ways to Help Families Coping with Brain Injury this Holiday

BrainLine blogger, Janna Hockenjos, suggests ways to support TBI survivors and caregivers this holiday season.

Relationships After Brain Injury — Where There's Life, There's Hope

Relationships After Brain Injury â€” Where There's Life, There's Hope

Relationships often change after a TBI, and sometimes the losses can be painful. BrainLine blogger, David Grant, shares his story.

Life After Brain Injury — Watching Out for Rogue Waves

Life After Brain Injury â€” Watching Out for Rogue Waves

Brainline blogger David Grant understands the "rogue waves" of emotion that come with a TBI. "Like their aquatic counterparts, they originate out of nowhere, offer a bit of emotional catastrophic damage, then recede, sometimes as quickly as they came."