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Killing your sleep to stay connected
Installing an app that adjusts the color temperature of the screen to approximate the light at the time of day, or more importantly, night. Continue reading
Posted in Serious Posts on Brain Injury
Tagged adjusting, blue light, Cognitive Damage, Community, cortisol, disharmony, dreams, EEG, emotions, Isolation, melatonin, sleep disturbance, sleep tracker
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The opposite of losing your life connections
Here’s a blog post from Brainline.org about what we do naturally when our social network in real life falls apart. If your brain injury hasn’t caused too much debilitation you find that your world just isn’t what it used to … Continue reading
Is it Available to You?
You might be wondering just what I’m talking about with such a vague title. Heck, I know I was when I came up with it. Anyway, I’ll get to that towards the end of this post but it has something to … Continue reading
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Tagged Accepting, adjusting, anhedonia, articulate, available, Cognitive Damage, emotions, memory, risky behavior, yoga
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March is Brain Injury Awareness Month
I haven’t quite figured out how I feel about all the messages out there but this essay is pretty good. Wish I couldn’t agree. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-zellmer/5-things-every-tbi-survivor-wants-you-to-understand_b_6800984.html
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Tagged Accepting, adjusting, Cognitive Damage, Isolation, memory, Pushing Limits, Recovery
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TBI Support Communities on the Web
It’s been a while since I have posted anything with regularity and I decided to speak to that in this post. I stopped writing too much about being a TBI survivor on my own Facebook wall because, well, those details … Continue reading
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Tagged Accepting, adjusting, Community, random, Recovery, TBI Support
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My Homework at the Mall
Or maybe it was a Cub Scout merit badge or something. This week I was given a homework assignment by one of my therapists. She asked me to simply go to a mall and try to do some Christmas shopping … Continue reading
Posted in Random Observations
Tagged adjusting, Cognitive Damage, sensory overload, strangers
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Far away friends stuck around more than local friends
I’ve realized lately that my long distance and on-line relationships haven’t broken down nearly as much as those that are local. Continue reading
Ink or it didn’t happen…
No, I’m not talking about tattoos although putting everything down in tattoos so I didn’t forget would be pretty funny. This is a take on a saying one of my online triathlon friends uses a lot. When someone posts online … Continue reading
Nine of All Trades 