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TBI & Me: If I Die Today

February 11, 2019 by Jeff Sebell 9 Comments

TBI & Me: If I Die Today

  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 ... Read On

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

January 6, 2019 by Jeff Sebell 20 Comments

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

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 ... Read On

My Mental Balancing Act-Post Brain Injury

September 16, 2018 by Jeff Sebell 20 Comments

My Mental Balancing Act-Post Brain Injury

  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 ... Read On

“Strategies” Are Important, but We Need Solutions

April 22, 2018 by Jeff Sebell 9 Comments

“Strategies” Are Important, but We Need Solutions

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 ... Read On

The Truth About Football, CTE and Us

March 17, 2018 by Jeff Sebell 1 Comment

The Truth About Football, CTE and Us

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 ... Read On

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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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