Real Life Diaries (eBook)

Living with a Brain Injury

Lynda Cheldelin Fell, Brenda L Kleinsasser, MaryKay Schreiner (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
396 Seiten
AlyBlue Media (Verlag)
978-1-944328-68-9 (ISBN)

Infos

What really happens in the aftermath of a brain injury? Why can't doctors give definitive answers? Will life ever return to normal? In Living with a Brain Injury, fourteen victims and caregivers invite readers inside their own intimate journey and expose a tender array of emotions, fears, and hopes. Along the way they offer truthfuland sometimes profoundanswers to common questions many are too afraid to ask.<br><br>The candid yet inspiring true stories offer refreshing insight into the diversity of recovery from nonclinical perspectives, and highlight the unexpected ways we discover courage and hope in the aftermath of a life-changing brain injury.

Inhalt

ForewordPreface1  The Beginning2  Facing the Aftermath3  Understanding The Prognosis4  Reactions by Others5  Understanding Sensory Changes6  Being Informed7  Our Personality Changes8  Emotional Outbursts9  Braving Social Stigma10 Transition of Relationships11 Facing Social Situations12 Managing Engagements13 Our New Routine14 Behavioral Changes15 Confessing Our Struggles16 Memory Challenges17 Confronting the Darkness18 The New Normal19 Finding the Silver Lining20 Making Peace with our JourneyMeet the WritersThank YouAbout Lynda Cheldelin Fell

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.3.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Brain Injury • Concussion • stroke • TBI • traumatic brain injury
• ISBN-10: 1-944328-68-8 / 1944328688
• ISBN-13: 978-1-944328-68-9 / 9781944328689