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This TBI Survivor Doesn’t Care How You Talk to Me

This TBI Survivor Doesn’t Care How You Talk to Me

May 6, 2019 By Jeff Sebell 9 Comments

At some point during this 43 year "trip" I've spent living with a brain injury, I got fed up: too much of my mental energy was being spent getting frustrated and angry because of things other people said to me. That was the moment I decided that I should not allow my mental health or my well being be dependent on the words of  others. I saw that no matter how much I tried to teach and inform others about brain injury and me, I would never be able to control what they actually thought about me ... Read On

Let’s Honor the Courage of the TBI Survivor

Let’s Honor the Courage of the TBI Survivor

By Jeff Sebell 13 Comments

Some acts are obviously courageous: a person runs into a burning building and saves a life, or a bystander dives into a lake to save a drowning person. These are dramatic examples of courage and bravery, when people make spur of the moment decisions and put their own lives at risk in order to save others. There is, however, another, harder to ... Read On

Finding the Will to Keep Fighting after Brain Injury

Finding the Will to Keep Fighting after Brain Injury

By Jeff Sebell 10 Comments

We love those uplifting, feel good stories about survivors who have battled adversity to create a life following brain injury; who have proven doctors and doubters wrong by raising themselves from the ashes. These stories are good for the human spirit and good for the soul; handing us doses of confidence and inspiration by focusing on the best ... Read On

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TBI & Me: If I Die Today

TBI & Me: If I Die Today

February 11, 2019 By Jeff Sebell 9 Comments

  The story of our life starts the moment we are born into this world. Our story is full of what makes us human: joy, failure, triumph, heartbreak, perseverance, love, facing obstacles and learning what it takes to live. As stories go, each story has a beginning and has an end, and we, at some point during our lives, become aware of our mortality and learn to deal with the concept of death in our own way: Some of us pretend we are indestructible and live as though we will not ... Read On

Lost My Car & Nearly Fell Into the “Brain Injury Trap”

Lost My Car & Nearly Fell Into the “Brain Injury Trap”

January 6, 2019 By Jeff Sebell 20 Comments

I get a laugh when I mention to somebody that I lost my car in the parking lot and they respond with, "Oh yeah, I do that all the time." I know they are just trying to be cute and funny or to find a way to make a connection with me, but what these people don't understand is that there is nothing cute or funny about a brain injured individual having to deal with constantly forgetting, misplacing or not understanding. I'm sure many, if not all of you, understand exactly what comes with ... Read On

My Mental Balancing Act-Post Brain Injury

My Mental Balancing Act-Post Brain Injury

September 16, 2018 By Jeff Sebell 20 Comments

  For the last forty three years, since my car crash and month long coma, I have essentially been performing one big balancing act. Over this time I have learned what it takes to maintain my balance on the brain injury high wire; balancing what I used to be, what I was becoming, what I thought I was and my new reality in order to build a life that works. I will be balancing for the rest of my life, balancing on a straight and narrow line so I can continue to live my life and move ... Read On

“Strategies” Are Important, but We Need Solutions

“Strategies” Are Important, but We Need Solutions

April 22, 2018 By Jeff Sebell 9 Comments

After we experience a brain injury we want answers to some important questions: when will I be my old self again, and how do I get myself back? Unfortunately, there are no answers. We learn quickly that, much to our dismay, there is no roadmap for life after brain injury. There is no schedule. There is no "approved method" for living. The best we can do is listen to doctors and therapists, as well as other survivors who have already travelled this road, hoping we can find ways to improve ... Read On

Jeff Sebell Author and TBI SurvivorJeff Sebell is a published Author, Speaker and Blogger writing about Traumatic Brain Injury and the impacts of his own TBI which he suffered in 1975 while attending Bowdoin College  He has been active in the community since the inception of the NHIF, and was on the founding board of directors of the MA chapter. His book "Learning to Live with Yourself after Brain Injury", was released in August of 2014 by Lash Publishing.

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From the Archives

  • How I Dealt with Abuse Following A Chronic Injury/Illness

    How I Dealt with Abuse Following A Chronic Injury/Illness

    February 11, 2018
    Those of us who have experienced a chronic injury or who have a chronic illness are used to being treated poorly by others. You would think people would be more …Read More »
  • Living Large and Howling at Our TBI Demons

    Living Large and Howling at Our TBI Demons

    August 27, 2017
    Everyone has their demons; ghosts that haunt us because of something that has or hasn’t happened in our past. For those of us with brain injuries, our collection of demons …Read More »
  • Don’t Walk…Run!

    Don’t Walk…Run!

    July 16, 2017
    When you have a brain injury many things change. Life is different in a way  you can’t explain and other people don’t understand. Those other people who don’t understand, in …Read More »
  • Facing & Winning the Daily Brain Injury Struggle

    Facing & Winning the Daily Brain Injury Struggle

    June 20, 2017
    Being TBI survivors, we all live the struggle; it’s in our face every day. The battle we are in can be physical, mental, emotional or a combination of all three, but it’s always there; and …Read More »
  • “So That’s Why I Do That!!”

    “So That’s Why I Do That!!”

    May 21, 2017
    How many of us, TBI survivors, do things or say things only to wonder, minutes later, “Why did I do that?” We go through our day-to-day lives, doing the best we …Read More »

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