Finding Your Inner Strength after TBI – from TBI Survivor

Several months after my TBI, when the shock of waking up after a month   in a coma had started to dissolve into the realization that things were going to be really different, I began the slow task of sorting my life out.

There were so many issues; I was unable to process conversations quickly, I felt stiff and unemotional, and I was too accepting of the things happening around me. Others thought I was passive and disinterested, but it was simply my inability to respond that made me seem that way. I was having trouble making connections to people and things around me and, as happens to many of us survivors, felt extremely isolated.

Life seemed to be whizzing by and I couldn’t keep up.

Even with all this stuff going on, there was something positive lurking that I couldn’t see. Only later, when I looked back, could I understand what had been going on.

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