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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 Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivors cannot, and details the many seemingly unrelatable symptoms of brain injury and subsequent PTSD.
List of contents
Introduction Planting the Seed: Where the Rubber Meets the Road 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: Insight, Value and Growth 20. Trail Blazing onto a Steady Path: Blossoming into Disability Culture
About the author
Dee Phyllis Genetti, PhD, LMHC, CTS is a psychologist with clinical expertise in trauma recovery. She is a civil rights advocate for equal rights/access and human dignity for persons with disabilities, a motivational speaker, published author, producer and host of Access Abilities with Dr. Dee and Marquis, and a member of the American Psychological Association.
Summary
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 Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivors cannot, and details the many seemingly unrelatable symptoms of brain injury and subsequent PTSD.
