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A Personal guide to recovery

Every brain injury is different and everyone's recovery journey is too. We have constructed this guide using our experience and the strategies and resources we found helpful and hope that you find this guide helpful too whether it be the entire book or just parts of it. 

Introduction

About Us

Who we are and how this idea came about.

About this Guide

How to Use this guide and customize it to your needs


About Brain Injury

What they are, how they are unique, stages of recovery


About You and Your Family

Each brain injury and person is unique. We recognize your needs will be different depending on where you're at


-Early middle late stage issues

-Severe moderate, mild issues

-Within a system vs outside of a system -(hospital, rehab program, residential care), funding system

-This guide gives you an opportunity to list your own needs and shape your own or manage your own options/supports/recovery journey

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Talking About Brain Injury

Putting a face to the statistics and definitions

Individual stories and experiences


Making the invisible brain injury visible


Bringing awareness about brain injury to family, friends, doctors and therapists and the public

Ways of talking about your difficulties

Words to use and not use for example

We're strangers in our own body

Being asked to know what you don't know

Your intelligence was not affected

Understanding that you are just as intelligent as you always were, just slightly less efficient

Feeling heard

Feeling discounted vs feeling heard = regaining control, getting people to speak directly to you rather than your caregiver

Feeling like a backseat driver

What is happening in your recovery is going to guide the rest of your life and you feel like a backseat driver - others may need to give you support

How do you gauge support?

What the individual can ask or consider.  What the support providers need to ask. How aware am I? Do I need to do it all today.  What's my priority?

Stages of Recovery

What stage of recovery are you in? How aware are you of the deficits? Have you asked them recently about what they need from you?

How much Support

Support to help you walk, not walk for you.

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Living and coping

Overcoming Frustration

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Coping Strategies

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The Insurance Challenge

You survived the brain injury; now how do you survive the insurance industry

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Who do I see for what problem?

Help finding our what is the right and available care


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Self Advocacy

Tips or guidelines for self-advocacy

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Stress Management and Resilience

Humour as a stress management tool and other strategies

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Fatigue

Pacing and fatigue management

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Family and Friends and Caregivers

In this section find out more about this very critical piece in our recovery and the importance of caring for the caregivers and helping them to maintain their own health while  understanding what is going on with you.

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