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Self-Care After Disasters

Disasters affect people who experience and respond to the event. Natural and technological disasters impact survivors, bereaved family members, witnesses to the event, and friends of those involved.

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Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE)

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Teaches you how to gain control by facing your fears.

What Lies Within

"Sometimes, the only answers to our problems lie within us.... The first step is knowing they are there, inside us, waiting to be found," says caregiver Rosemary Rawlins.

Section 504: The Law and Its Impact on Postsecondary Education

Colleges that receive federal financial assistance cannot discriminate. Learn more.

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A Dog and the Open Road: One Veteran's Prescription for PTSD

Retired U.S. Army Sgt. Angela Peacock's Journey from Treatment to Healing.

The Veteran's Traumatic Brain Injury Survival Guide

A resource from one war veteran with TBI for others like him.

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Lost Memories and Living in the Present: Reflections of a Brain Injury Survivor

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Over the last couple of years, I’ve discovered mindfulness and have learned the value of living life “in the moment.” It’s a learned skill that has enabled me to find peace in my life. In what amounts to almost an irony, I no longer have much of my past to recall. The future never really comes. By circumstance, rather than any virtue, I am now forced to live in the moment.

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A Natural Way to Restore the Body, Mind, and Spirit

Rosemary talks with Electra Liatos, a certified massage therapist, whose "fingers of love" have done just as much healing for Hugh and Rosemary as any other medicine.

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.

When the Dust Finally Settles: Strategies for the Long-Term Caregiver

When the Dust Finally Settles â€¦ Strategies for the Long-Term Caregiver

Learn from this father's experience with the "twists, stumbles, set-backs, and wild-goose chases" of a having a TBI in the family.

Complications: Swelling or Edema and Contractures

Learn how to prevent and manage swelling and contractures after a TBI.

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Female athletes may be more susceptible to concussion and have prolonged symptoms after concussion

Female athletes are more susceptible to sport-related concussions (SRCs) and experience worse outcomes compared with male athletes. Although numerous studies on SRC have compared the outcomes of concussions in male and female athletes after injury, research pertaining to why female athletes have worse outcomes is limited.

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One Simple Way to Fight Depression

Joining a group — any group you connect with — can help stave off depression for a person with TBI and his or her family caregivers, says BrainLine blogger Rosemary Rawlins.

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?"

Bladder and Bowel Problems

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Bladder and bowel problems after severe brain injury

Finding Community and Support in the Weirdest Places

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Relationships after a life-altering injury or diagnosis is, well, weird. Some people will stand by you no matter what. Hold on to them and let them know, often, how grateful you are that they are in your life. Others, even family—no, especially family—are not so loyal.

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Letter to My Child's Teachers and Administrators

"Please remember that he is just a 9-year-old boy who has come through more than many of us can truly understand."

Never Stop Asking 'What If?'

We imagine the what-ifs as a worst case scenario, our worst nightmare happening to us, our life falling apart. But here’s another way of looking at it.

Why Is Military Caregiving Unique?

The US has been at war longer than any time in its history. Learn what the Rand Corp. has learned about military caregivers.

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Five Ways Caregivers Directly Impact TBI Outcome

"It’s my personal belief that the quality of fulltime care someone with TBI receives during the first two years post injury has the potential to greatly impact outcome."

NeuroStorm of the Century, Part 2 of 3: All Forms of Communication

As weeks and then months went by, the monitors were gradually removed and it became more important for family and friends to communicate with nursing staff regarding Josh's neurostorms.

The Long Haul

It’s been six and a half years since I began this brain injury journey. Or, to compute, 2,372 days, 56,928 hours, 3,415,680 minutes. As I think back, I take pride in each of those days (the bad ones included), remembering too vividly a time in which I was convinced we couldn’t make it at all.

The Everyone Served Paradox

A colors team from the U.S. Air Force Honor Guard present the colors at the Air Force Memorial July 4, 2017, Washington, D.C. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jim Varhegyi)

I have seen combat veterans sneer at non-combat veterans, thinking that they’re “not worthy.”

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Loneliness is making us physically sick, but social prescribing can treat it – podcast

Social isolation and loneliness are increasingly becoming societal problems, as they contribute to polarization and affect our physical health. Mental health professionals, community advocates and health-care providers have been raising the alarm about this impending crisis.

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Why Is It Important to Talk About Changes in Roles and Responsibilities After Brain Injury?

Dr. Emilie Godwin talks about why it's important to openly talk about changes in roles and responsibilities after a brain injury.

Emilie Godwin, PhD

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