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Living with Traumatic Brain Injury
When a family’s loved one returns home with a traumatic brain injury, even one considered “mild”, it can affect the whole family — from financial challenges to job loss. At first, changes that normally follow brain injury — especially emotional and behavioral changes — can be to hard comprehend and accept. And unlike a broken bone, recovery from a TBI can take months or years.
While most people who sustain a TBI recover quickly, for some people — and their families — life may need to be reinvented, reinterpreted, and accepted as something different. And although life after a brain injury usually involves challenges, it doesn’t mean life is less valuable or fulfilling.
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How Can Brain Injury Affect a Person's Sexuality?
June 10, 2013
Sexual health issues can be common after a TBI. Depression, anxiety, the inability to relate to others, hypersexuality, and side effects from medications, among others, can impact how people sees their sexual self.
How Is Intimacy Impacted If an Person's Caregiver Is Also Their Sexual Partner?
June 10, 2013
After a TBI, it's difficult to feel self-confident — to feel sexy — when you are relying on someone for manyof your daily needs. How do you negotiate being cared for with being an equal sexual partner in bed?
What Is the Role of the Partner in Helping Someone with TBI Reconnect on an Intimate and Sexual Level?
June 10, 2013
The homecoming for a couple post-deployment can be heady with anticipation, but sometimes going slowly and reestablishing trust and comfort with sex and intimacy can be crucial for finding that closeness again.
Marriage Tips for PTSD and TBI Families
May 20, 2013
Veteran wife Heather Hummert knows it takes two to tango and it takes two to save a marriage, especially if there is TBI and PTSD involved.
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Adam at Ease
A video blog by Veteran Adam Anicich
The Many Ways Occupational Therapy Can Help After a TBI
From doing puzzles and building Lego models to finding items in the grocery store or mapping a route on the subway, Adam shares his experiences in occupational therapy and how it really helped him during his recovery from TBI.
Taking Control of Your Recovery After Brain Injury
Adam talks about how it wasn't until he fully took control of his own recovery that he started to see big changes in his life. "Take personal accountability for how you want to live your life. The choice is yours."
