We are looking for people to share their stories in a video format, it’s pretty straightforward and won’t take up a ton of your time. If you are interested in doing that, please reach out to me and we will get that process started
Thank you!
Sharon from ModSupport
MVA 8-11-01, TBI, DAI, etc., multiple hospitals for over two to three years, just cant run now! Have been forming this writing for over 20 years! After getting taken for money, with the hopes to get this out, to help heal others effected to heal, by a Trauma! Live on SSI, which I do not see, used for living expenses! After this constant drive to share, am at the point where I just want to share to help others, along this road to Self-Actualization in self! Lost dream I guess? Would have been ecstatic to be getting off of Gov support, and just have to suck it up, and smile? This writing has a potential to become a WBS-Worlds Best Seller!
**Intro: The reason for writing this is to have others, become much more patient and understanding with someone who has a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Also to understand some of the circumstances that some may encounter, including the ways some people may get short tempered when confusion sets in, and to form the possibility, of being able to overcome some setbacks, with a SMILEJ**
**What I would like for you, to learn about this journey:**
1st- To realize that yes, some may have been a bit shifted, in the normal ways on handling everyday occurrences through what has happened.
Acceptance is the ideal!
2nd- So, trying to figure out the best way, to approach every obstacle is important. So, some ways, may help you in a direction to successes, while others may dampen or slow the gains, then figuring out what works, and deciding which to continue with.
3rd - And knowing that YES, your life has been put on pause, following the incident in question, and there are many different tools to assist in your learning, in how to overcome, some of those nagging issues. Learn how to proceed with ease!
4th- And understand that not everyone will co-exist, with the same difficulties that they may be handling, throughout their life.
**Everyone has their own baggage, through which they may have to maneuver through with, themselves. This is why physical and psychological rehabilitation is ideal!**
5th- You must learn about why being patient, in the attainment of goals is key, sort of like the idea. “You must take baby steps, with the forward momentum to the ideal outcome, as to which you may be wishing to receive.
–with over 200 pages , not edited what so ever professionally!
Hello, My name is Billy Walsh and I would love to share my story. I will hold off on explaining it all right now. It is a good story about total and complete cognitive loss and my ascent to get it back.
Thank you.
Why are we doing this? What advantage will it serve? It can be very upsetting to bring back deep memories?
This is fully optional. There are two goals. One is to to encourage other people who might benefit to join us here in our communities. The other piece is part of our fundraising to support keeping these communities open and available.
I will also add in that for some people sharing their story can be quite beneficial to them personally.
Sharon from ModSupport
I will message you privately to talk more about this, thank you so much
Sharon
Thank you!
I’m going to message you with a few follow up questions
Sharon
Hey davOD,
As a fellow TBI survivor I’ve found my situation fairly isolating. For me knowing that there were others going through some very similar experiences lifted a load for me. The medicos all put it back on me, ‘Well, that can’t be happening…” but it was “…never heard of that before… …It must just be YOU…” like I’m in this position by choice. Just to know I’m not alone was a huge relief.
It’s been by using my ‘experiences’ with lots of “Me Too” along the way that both myself and others can feel a little less isolated. I totally agree, some of it can be fairly ugly and uncomfortable, for the most part I ‘try’ to brush over those bits. But sometimes those bits I brush over can contain that little piece of information someone else has been hunting for.
None of us take the same route on this awful journey, but if my experiences (good and bad) can assist just one person to avoid the pitfalls I took, I am more than willing to share. I wouldn’t want anybody to be following my lead and I’m often saying ‘Don’t do what I did… …and here’s why…’. Me personally, I don’t need to be looking back, I deal with it all on a daily basis, so for me, it’s front and centre not just in deep memories.
I think it’s only by sharing our experiences that we can learn how others have dealt with and managed around it all. It gave me differing strategies and differing approaches around accepting it all.
Merl
I agree. and yes like I love to tell fellow TBI’ers. We all are the same and totally different with our problems.
I belive even a scripted interview would miss all the little details.
I read so many TBI recovery books, now they are one blur remembering only the things that I could relate to. Rereading lines or paragraphs over and over just to grasp what was said.
I am scattered and not organized. I would think it would be hard to convey a solid message. But yea, we can give hope I guess. It aint easy, and kinda depressing when your wondering if you will recover 100%? Im shy of my 19 year.(1/2/25).
Cant tell you on this road so many say I should write a book? Its hard enough living one day at a time, and you want me to write a book? LOL
Ive been here a long time, and its very slow. The chat never worked. That to me was the greatest thing for me. it was TBI chat and they are long gone. It was real, and personal.