Cognitive Changes After Traumatic Brain Injury Are the Most Challenging

the effects of traumatic brain injury on the person's knowledge - the ability to think and learn - can be so overwhelming that it is literally struggling to survive through each day. Barbara Webster led support groups for the hundredth BIA Massachusetts and all too familiar with the struggles, frustrations and difficulties of rebuilding your life after a head injury.

She knows firsthand how to have your life changed dramatically after he fled from a traffic accident with what everyone thought were minor injuries. Suddenly she was not able to perform his job or manage his household. Even the most simple tasks such as choosing her clothes in the morning, cooking dinner or making a grocery list felt overwhelming, and sent it back to krevet.Teže tried, the more stuck and became frustrated.

not knowing the cause of her cognitive difficulties, she became so depressed she was afraid was going crazy, or even consider samoubojstvo.Noć went to parent-teacher meeting at school and heard a guest speaker talk about the brain injury was the beginning of turning his life around . She went to her first support group meeting victims and realized that her cognitive difficulties may be associated with her earlier accident, and her so-called "mild" brain injury. Most importantly, she learned that the help and support available. Bringing her husband to a meeting of a support group helped him to understand the cause of her difficulties and gave him a new perspective on what was wrong. He realized: "It was not to blame" This is a head injury that was causing her to act and that the way it was.

Barbara Webster story is still too common. There is nothing "mild" on the brain injury. Since she only lost consciousness for a moment and had no injuries after her car accident, her brain injury was not diagnosed until many many months later. After all, she looked good. But looks can be deceiving.

trauma to the brain can result in various physical, social, emotional, cognitive and behavioral changes. But it is a cognitive change - the ability to process information, problem solve, make decisions, using sound decision, pay attention and remember events and details - that is so often feel overwhelming for the individual. Family members often feel confused, frustrated and even angered some changes and I can not understand what happened. It can literally feel like in life - all that was known and familiar - it was lost. Find and return life begins with a diagnosis of injury mozga.Sljedeći step is to find experts and therapists who are experienced and can provide medical services and rehabilitation, the design of compensatory strategies, give advice and support to extend. The recovery process is the path that includes an individual, as well as their families. Barbara Webster can attest to the importance of hope, information, support and resources on brain injury in order to locate, recover and rebuild their lives.