TBI S-O-S! Restoring a Sense-Of-Self after Brain Injury and Concussion
A tool to help me sleep
CBT-i Coach
I have been poking around on the Apple App Store, and I found a great little app for helping me deal with my sleep issues. It’s called CBT-i Coach, and it’s a mobile phone app for vets, service members, and others who are in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia.
I’m not in CBT, but I think this could really help me.
I’ve been filling in the details for my sleeping habits, and there’s nothing like having all the data right there in front of you, to tell you where you are.
They also have relaxation and mind-body exercises (although the audio doesn’t seem to work on mine unfortunately), and they have information on developing good sleep habits and getting rid of habits that interfere with sleep.
This looks promising to me. It’s another tool I can use – and it already feels like I have another helper in my corner, to assist with my sleep problems.
I am a long-term multiple (mild) Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI or TBI) survivor who experienced assaults, falls, car accidents, sports-related injuries in the 1960s, '70s, '80s, and '90s. My last mild TBI was in 2004, but it was definitely the worst of the lot.
I never received medical treatment for my injuries, some of which were sports injuries (and you have to get back in the game!), but I have been living very successfully with cognitive/behavioral (social, emotional, functional) symptoms and complications since I was a young kid. I’ve done it so well, in fact, that virtually nobody knows that I sustained those injuries… and the folks who do know, haven’t fully realized just how it’s impacted my life.
It has impacted my life, however. In serious and debilitating ways. I’m coming out from behind the shields I’ve put up, in hopes of successfully addressing my own (invisible) challenges and helping others to see that sustaining a TBI is not the end of the world, and they can, in fact, live happy, fulfilled, productive lives in spite of it all.
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Thanks – I will check them out for sure. After years of being really resistant (partly because the technology and designs were not yet up to snuff for me), I’m finding some good apps. Some not so good ones, but still some good ones.
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good little app. hope it works for you. here are a few apps from the dept of va,
http://mobilehealth.va.gov/content/ptsd-coach-app
http://mobilehealth.va.gov/content/pe-coach
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Thanks – I will check them out for sure. After years of being really resistant (partly because the technology and designs were not yet up to snuff for me), I’m finding some good apps. Some not so good ones, but still some good ones.
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