Coping with Anger
One day you’re going about your day and minding your own business. Next thing you know something happens, out of the blue, and suddenly you have a traumatic brain injury. And suddenly, although you had always been calm and mild mannered, you have anger issues. When I first got my stroke-related brain injury, I found myself getting angry over the smallest things. Things that were mildly irritating before, were things that could now make me angry. I was never an angry person, and my new bouts of anger were disturbing and perplexing. Where was the anger coming from? What was wrong with me?
Monday Motivation: June 6, 2022
Resilience
If there is one thing traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors know about, it’s resilience. Being a TBI survivor, I know a thing or two about resilience myself. I get comments about my resilience all the time. I think a lot of people are probably thinking about my physical resilience, how I’ve started to gradually walk again with some degree of the old poise and confidence I had before my brain was injured. Others tell me that if they didn’t know I was a survivor, they’d have never guessed. I also think physical resilience is something most people can relate to.