Living with Head/Brain Injury (TBI)
After traumatic brain injury (TBI), many couples find that their relationship with each other changes dramatically. These changes are very personal and can be very emotional for both people in the relationship.
see
http://www.msktc.org/tbi/factsheets/relationships-after-traumatic-brain-injury
and
https://www.facebook.com/livingwithheadinjury
“TBI upsets life on multiple levels: physical, psychological, social, and even spiritual. TBI affects the roots of who we are — our ability to think, to communicate…”
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My wife found me because of Flight of a Lifetime – the book I wrote about my massive head injury (http://ow.ly/DKc3l). Sadly now she often accuses me of using that as an excuse for being a… (Think of a rude word!). I cannot help being me, but she just does not understand. Yes, it is so hard for someone who has not had a head injury to come to terms with how the brain works in someone who has had a TBI. Heck, if most ‘expert’ doctors cannot always how does one expect a member of the public to understand. My wife tries to understand, but when times are bad it is beyond her. Traumatic Head Injury can devastate relationships because the person one lives with suddenly is not the person they were, or – as in my case – that person just does not react to the world in a ‘normal’ fashion.
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