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How does a severe brain injury affect the individual? How does a severe brain injury affect the individual? A severe brain injury produces physiological, cognitive, emotional, psychological and behavioural changes. Some individuals develop medical problems related to specific … Continue reading
The Hidden Handicap – the Silent Epidemic
THE HIDDEN HANDICAP* – THE SILENT EPIDEMIC*
CLIMBING THE EVEREST WITHIN
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The following piece is from information that I’ve researched and collected over the past twenty-five years. Some of the writings are words from my own experiences and much material from sources unknown (some of which has been re-written and re-phrased by me). I am sharing this information in the spirit of promoting greater awareness of head (or brain) injury, as well as helping and hopefully encouraging “victims of the hidden ‘handicap’” to realise their full potentials and be all that they are capable of achieving, being and becoming.
Craig Lock
October 2005
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Some introductory comments re the title of this article
* because it can’t be seen and brain /head damaged people look perfectly “normal” (what’s that!).
NB: NO, I don’t necessarily see it, this label as a ‘handicap’, but rather as an opportunity for personal growth.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed* of an equal or greater benefit.”
– Napoleon Hill (in his great book ‘Think and Grow Rich’)
* this should perhaps read “rather the POTENTIAL seed” in cases of head (brain) damage
“Just because a brain has been damaged, does NOT necessarily have to affect the human mind…and so the quality and height of our thoughts!”
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An Open Book: My Story, My “little” Life
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An Open Book: My Story, My “little” Life Updated Kindle version at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MD4U9QQ Also now available in paperback at http://www.amazon.com/Open-Book-little-Normal-Anyway/dp/1494903938 Many people over the years have said I should write…
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Second Chance to Live Sharing Hope in the Face of Adversity — One Piece at a Time Read about Craig Phillips’s inspiring story Also click on http://secondchancetolive.wordpress.com/
Living with Long-Term Brain (Head) Injury
INTRODUCTION
Here is some “info”, that I summarised from a radio interview with a UK film-maker by the name of William Fairbank (http://www.williamfairbank.com) talking about the “hidden handicap, the silent epidemic”. (“It could have been me speaking” . . . but not nearly as eloquently* as William!)
*big word, eh!
Head injury has become a common problem throughout the world. Many of the more severe injuries are related to road traffic and horse riding accidents. As an example, in Great Britain about 15 patients every hour are admitted to hospital for observation, because of head injury and every 2 hours one of these will die. Head injury is implicated in 1 of all deaths and 50% OF ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT DEATHS. Head injury is particularly prevalent in the age group between 10 and 25. CONCUSSION has occurred, whenever patients cannot remember the actual blow that made them unconscious.
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WILLIAM FAIRBANKS Interview with Kathryn Ryan on National Radio (4th Feb 2010)
LONG-TERM BRAIN INJURY
“There is excellent medical care immediately post-trauma. However, there is little follow-up after the initial trauma. Every day I have to come to terms with my brain injury, to learn. I don’t handle interruptions. It’s like being in a movie. Each person with a brain injury is different…and is affected in different ways. I do one thing at a time – break into little tasks. I really live in the present. No-one ever explained to me how to cope, how to deal with everyday living. I had to learn strategies for myself.
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