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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”

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 ... Read On

My Mental Balancing Act-Post Brain Injury

My Mental Balancing Act-Post Brain Injury

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 ... Read On

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“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

The Truth About Football, CTE and Us

The Truth About Football, CTE and Us

March 17, 2018 By Jeff Sebell 1 Comment

The last several years we have learned about the repercussions of repetitive hits to the heads of our football heroes. Do we really understand though? We see stories about them on the news or read about them in newspaper articles, focused, not on past glories or achievements, but on present day despair. On regrets. On wishing they had lived their lives differently. We see these men in what were supposed to be their retirement golden years: days which were planned to be spent reaping the ... Read On

How I Dealt with Abuse Following A Chronic Injury/Illness

How I Dealt with Abuse Following A Chronic Injury/Illness

February 11, 2018 By Jeff Sebell 2 Comments

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 understanding, but apparently, that's not the way it works. Our Reality We all have war stories. We can all testify to the number of times we have been insulted, demeaned, overlooked, made fun of, criticized or not believed; all because of the way we look, act or function. What makes it so confusing and frustrating is that even ... Read On

Living Large and Howling at Our TBI Demons

Living Large and Howling at Our TBI Demons

August 27, 2017 By Jeff Sebell 6 Comments

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 is varied and extremely powerful. We feel overwhelmed when we face those things that haunt us: peoples' comments, the can't do's, the used to be able to's, the relationship issues, the work issues. They are popping up all the time. Many of us feel as though our demons are not like anyone else's and we put them on ... 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

  • 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 »
  • You Are Not Broken

    You Are Not Broken

    April 30, 2017
    Once we begin to understand that something serious has happened to us, the first things we always want to know is, “When will I be all better?” Our natural reaction is to …Read More »
  • I Am the Forgotten Man

    I Am the Forgotten Man

    April 16, 2017
    I am one of the many: a man who has experienced a Traumatic Brain Injury and feels forgotten. I am left wondering where my place is in the world and …Read More »
  • Great Job, All You TBI Survivors!!!

    Great Job, All You TBI Survivors!!!

    April 3, 2017
    We struggle so much and we all need that occasional good word; that boost of confidence that comes when someone acknowledges you. Many times during the first two to three  years after my …Read More »

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