Intracranial Aneurysms and other cognitive injuries:
For those of you who have a loved one or friend who has experienced what it is like to suffer a traumatic brain injury, whether it’s from a sentinel bleed incidental to a leaking or ruptured aneurysm or whether it’s from a traumatic event, e.g. a car accident or some other insult, rest assured you are not alone. Cognitive and therapeutic support groups are likely available in your neighborhood to provide the mental health support for you to get cognitive, speech or vocational help.
Support from family and friends is something which is needed. As my wife say’s “unconditional love, help and encouragement” are those tools needed to help those catastrophically injured and, let’s not forget, to help those who have also suffered a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) to get back onto their feet. Don’t despair and lose hope. Even for those of you who are frustrated and are about to give up hope- don’t! Cognitive rehabilitation centers offer support groups including counseling, therapy and other group activities which can help you climb out of that spiraling hole which at times feels like it’s pulling you down.
Contact your lawyer, doctor or therapist as they can often provide the best leads to help you find the right mental health professional to start you down the path so you can land back up on your feet. It’s admittedly a long, arduous process, but one which is not insurmountable as I can personally can say from my own experience in 1985 during my own personal travails and what it took to make a 100% recovery from a TBI.
Get help…call your best friend in times of loneliness and despair. Talk to someone about your frustrations, your anxieties and fears. Talk…talk…and talk and more talk therapy…as it’s all good! Regularly see your therapist to learn coping skills and prompting techniques from close friends and family to allow you to be more functional and social. With time you can feel somewhat independent again as long as you can develop and trust the support group around you. Time is the best healer and over the years you may be one of those who can make a full physical and cognitive recovery.
Remember, friends and family have your best interest at heart. Compassion and understanding are all you need for support on your road to function and improved self sufficiency.
Rob Kornfeld of Kornfeld, Trudell, Bowen and Lingenbrink, LLC
Personal Injury Lawyers
(800) 282-4878 or email Rob@Kornfeldlaw.com
