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Combat Stress Versus Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Learn about the similarities and differences of combat stress and posttraumatic stress disorder to help prevent or effectively manage both.

Do You Need an Empathectomy?

Do you feel your loved one’s pain and sense of loss like it’s happening to you? Maybe, like Rosemary, you need an "empathectomy."

Stress and Stress Management Post-TBI

Why does stress exacerbate a person’s brain injury symptoms?

Celeste Campbell, PsyD

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Anxiety & Stress

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.

How to Help People Who Have Trouble Coping with Their Brain Injury

Early screening for alexithymia following TBI might identify those most at risk of having difficulty coping.

The Stress Continuum

The Stress Continuum is a model that identifies how Sailors and Marines react under stressful situations and what to do to help.

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Resilience: The Bounce Back Factor

Think of emotional resilience as armor for the mind, push-ups for the brain.

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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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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.

Paper Trail or Trial?

Before Hugh’s injury, I loved getting mail in my mailbox. Afterward, I dreaded adding another pile to the piles of mail that permanently resided on my desk, office floor, and living room table.

Coping with Fear

The day before Rosemary's husband’s severe traumatic brain injury was the last day she felt truly safe in the world.

Caregivers Helping Caregivers

Rosemary writes about how to answer the dreaded question, "How are you?"

TBI and PTSD Often Go Hand-in-Hand

Depending on the cause of a person's brain injury like an assault or a combat injury, post-traumatic stress can also play a key role in the injury — and treatment.

Where Soldiers Come From

This documentary follows the journey of childhood friends who join the National Guard and end up combat veterans dealing with TBI and PTSD.

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Stress Management: How to Reduce, Prevent, and Cope with Stress

Stress affects everyone, but it can be worse for people with a brain injury. Here are some indispensable, general strategies for managing stress.

Stress Symptoms in Relatives After Severe Brain Injury

Post-traumatic stress can affect a person’s family members, too.

Brain Injury, PTSD, and Behavior

Symptoms of TBI and PTSD overlap; treating the whole person is crucial.

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Changes in Circles of Support After Brain Injury

A TBI can damage parts of a person's brain but it can also damage -- or at least change -- that person's circle of support.

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Depression and Anxiety Common Even Years After TBI

Regular psychiatric screenings can help identify and treat emotional issues post-TBI.

Trastorno de estrés postraumático

Trastorno de EstrÃ©s PostraumÃ¡tico (fÃ¡cil de leer)

Este folleto explica qué es el trastorno de estrés postraumático, cuándo comienza, cuánto tiempo dura y cómo obtener ayuda.

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Managing Crises and Stress Effectively

Remember: no one is immune, but these strategies may help.

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Brain Injury, Social Skills, and the Holidays

Ask the Expert: Social Skills and the Holidays

Carolyn Rocchio offers advice to prepare someone with a TBI for holiday party interactions with family and friends.

Carolyn Rocchio

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Behavioral & Emotional Symptoms

Caregiving & Brain Injury

Concussion / Mild TBI

Living with Traumatic Brain Injury

Traumatic Brain Injury

Depression and Anxiety

Mental health problems can accompany TBI. Learn more about the signs, symptoms, and treatments.

Managing Stress Effectively After TBI, Part II

Ideas and tools to deal with stress and to decrease the amount of it in your life.