Blossoming Into Disability Culture Following Traumatic Brain Injury; The Lotus Arising 1st Edition Dee Phyllis Genetti 100385401X 9781003854012

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• ISBN 10: 100385401X
• ISBN 13: 9781003854012
• Author: Dee Phyllis Genetti

This book tells the author’s story of her ten-year journey of recovery and identity transformation from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Dr. Dee is a survivor who regained the ability to articulate what many TBI survivors cannot, and this powerful account, provided in real-time, portrays the many seemingly unrelatable symptoms of brain injury and subsequent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Dr. Dee portrays how events pushed her beyond her limits and resulted in life-altering learning experiences, revealing a process of first figuring out how to live, then making meaning of her struggle. When half-way through her PhD program, Dr. Dee was crashed into by a car travelling at 65 miles per hour. She suffered a TBI. She lost her ability to read and write. She had a severe speech impediment and significantly impaired memory. Her journey of recovery, described in the book as her trek, spans four significant periods. The road begins with the loss of most of herself. Diagnosis and evolving symptoms show her broken pathway. The author goes through a rocky road of changes in her relationships and reidentification of herself as she finds her life coach, re-learns to read and write, and deals with mental health issues that felt like the end of her recovery. The final trek reveals hope and posttraumatic growth (PTG) and showcases the value of Disability Culture as a source of pride. This story is for fellow TBI survivors, their caretakers, families and friends, and professionals in the neurorehabilitation field. It brings light to the daunting changes after TBI and give hope for all who tread on this challenging path.

Table of contents:

1 Setting the Context

Trek One Budding through Non-Ideal Conditions: Off-Road: Years 1 and 2 Post-TBI: Changes in Self-Perception: Loss of My Old Self

2 Potholes: Diagnosis and Evolving Symptoms

3 Stepping Stones: Speech Language Therapy

4 Lost in the Alleyway: Impact of Awareness

5 The Broken Path: Hallmarks of Communication

Trek Two Rising through Mud and Adversity: The Rocky Road: Years 3 and 4 Post-TBI: Changes in Interpersonal Relationships: Re-identification

6 Not a Throughway: Intellect, Emotionality, Control of Behavior

7 Lost Trailways: Relationships and Loss of Identity

8 Finding a Footpath: Rehabilitation and My Life Coach

9 Unearthing Stepping Stones: Learning to Read and Write

10 Road to Recovery: Beginning of Self-Discovery

11 Road to Recovery: Beginning of Re-identification

12 Taking a Toll Road: Concurrent Mental Health Issues

13 Speed Bumps: Co-morbidity with TBI and PTSD

14 Ruts in the Road: Reckoning with Anger

15 Breakdown Lane: Impatient rehabilitation

Trek Three Petals Opening One by One: Changing Lanes: Years 5 and 6 Post-TBI: Changes in Philosophy of Life: Acceptance of My New Life

16 At the Cross Roads: Spiritual Crisis

17 Staying the Course: Transcending My Story

18 In the Right Lane: Moving Forward

Trek Four Ultimately Blossoming in the Sun: Paving a Way: Years 7 and Beyond Post-TBI: Toward New Growth: Hope

19 Opening Passageways: Discovering Insight, Value and Growth

20 Trail Blazing onto a Steady Path: Blossoming into Disability Culture

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