Monthly Archives: August 2017

Communication problems after brain injury

Communication problems after brain injury are very common. Although most of us take it for granted, the ability to communicate requires extremely complex skills and many different parts of the brain are involved. see https://www.headway.org.uk/about-brain-injury/individuals/effects-of-brain-injury/communication-problems/ and https://www.facebook.com/livingwithheadinjury/ PS Headway is … Continue reading

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What Does it Feel Like to be Brain Damaged?

Originally posted on Living with Head/Brain Injury (TBI):
What Does it Feel Like to be Brain Damaged? ? I am in the unusual position of being a trained clinical psychologist who suffered brain damage and who has slowly recovered most…

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Relationships following Brain/Head Injury

A life worth living: Emotional adjustment following traumatic brain injury links below from https://www.facebook.com/livingwithheadinjury/ A great varience in opinion regarding the stats (break up of marriages and intimate/close relationships) (See the following links) COMMENT my opinion (humble) Figure for marriage … Continue reading

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“If I can uplift and perhaps even inspire just ONE person, I can and will be happy… and die (eventually) joyfully…with joy in my heart”

https://itsalwaysdarkestbeforethedawn.wordpress.com/2017/08/03/if-i-can-uplift-and-perhaps-even-inspire-just-one-person-i-can-and-will-be-happy-and-die-eventually-joyfully-with-joy-in-my-heart/ and https://craigsquotes.wordpress.com/2017/08/02/if-i-can-uplift-and-perhaps-even-inspire-just-one-person-i-can-be-happy-and-die-joyfully/ picture from https://thedriverthenurseandthewriter.wordpress.com/   “Life is God’s novel; so let Ultimate Source write it, as it unfolds…” – me (as inspired by the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer) from http://www.craigsquotes.wordpresscom and http://www.lifeisgodsnovel.wordpress.com   PPS Best wishes from … Continue reading

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My Facebook Page: Living with Head (Brain) Injury

Source: My Facebook Page: Living with Head (Brain) Injury

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He would not wake up properly for 38 days…or was it perhaps 38 years!

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My/Our Story (a bit different!)

Trying to find a gliimmer of hope and light in the darkness A journey… from darkness into the light Comment Aren’t wives always right!(??) from https://traumaticbraininjurytbi.wordpress.com/2017/03/20/a-world-a-life-turned-upside-down/ https://traumaticbraininjurytbi.wordpress.com/2016/08/20/a-journey-our-story-2/ picture from https://headbraininjury.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/trying-to-find-a-light-in-the-darkness/ and https://traumaticbraininjurytbi.wordpress.com/2017/07/30/he-would-not-wake-up-properly-for-38-daysor-was-it-perhaps-38-years-2/ “Knowledge is the gateway to understanding…and understanding is … Continue reading

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