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Life After a Traumatic Brain Injury: Adjusting to a New Reality and Finding Your Way Forward Life after a brain injury often looks nothing like people expect. There is the injury itself, and then there is everything that comes after it. The confusion. The exhaustion. The subtle and not-so-subtle changes that affect how you think,…

Brain injury recovery is often misunderstood. From the outside, it can look like a timeline with milestones—hospital, rehab, discharge, “back to normal.” In reality, recovery is far more complex. It is not a straight line, not a checklist, and not something that can be rushed. Real recovery is adaptive, uneven, and deeply human. Recovery Is…

Caring for someone with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be one of the most emotionally and physically demanding roles a person can take on. Whether the injury was caused by an accident, fall, assault, stroke, or medical event, the impact often extends far beyond the individual—it reshapes the entire family system. If you’re feeling…

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can change life in ways that are difficult to explain, especially when the injury isn’t visible. Many brain injury survivors struggle not only with physical symptoms, but with emotional, cognitive, and identity changes that others may not understand. This page is written to help survivors feel seen, validated, and informed, while…

After a brain injury, one of the most pressing and difficult questions people ask is, “What does the future look like now?” The answer is rarely simple. Brain injury recovery does not follow a single path, and the outlook varies widely depending on the type of injury, the areas of the brain affected, access to…

Life After a Brain Injury: Adjusting to a New Reality and Finding Your Way Forward Life after a brain injury often looks nothing like people expect. There is the injury itself, and then there is everything that comes after it. The confusion. The exhaustion. The subtle and not-so-subtle changes that affect how you think, feel,…

For many people, POTS doesn’t arrive with a clear explanation or a clean diagnosis. It often shows up quietly at first—feeling lightheaded when standing, suddenly exhausted for no obvious reason, struggling to think clearly, or noticing your heart racing when you’re just trying to get through the day. And then, slowly or all at once,…

What Dysautonomia Is—and Why It Feels So Distressing The autonomic nervous system controls the body’s automatic processes: heart rate, blood pressure, digestion, breathing, temperature regulation, and the stress response. When this system becomes dysregulated after brain injury, the body may respond as though it is under constant threat or unable to stabilize after normal activity….

After a traumatic brain injury (TBI), many people experience periods of shutting down. This can look like withdrawing, going quiet, feeling emotionally numb, or losing the ability to engage with the world for a time. To others, it may appear as avoidance, disinterest, or lack of effort. To the person experiencing it, shutdown often feels…

Brain fog is one of the most common—and often most unsettling—experiences after an acquired brain injury (ABI). Many people describe it as feeling mentally clouded, slowed, or disconnected from their usual clarity. Thoughts may feel harder to access. Focus fades more quickly. Words can feel just out of reach. These changes can quietly interfere with…