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One brain haemorrhage - Multiple handicaps
Traumatic
Brain
Injury
Why has this site been set up?
This site has been created to explain to those who do not exactly know what TBI is, the full extent of this condition. Therefore I advise you to read this site carefully.
What is TBI?
Traumatic Brain Injury is a disorder which can hardly be explained. It rules your life. The problems which nearly always occur in such a situation, does not make life any easier.
Some symptoms of this condition are:

My Story
A dangerous handicap, strange things can happen, of which you are totally unaware. Nearly everything must take place under supervision.
Whatever you do, you shouldn’t underestimate this
handicap, as soon as you or the people around you notice something, you
should raise the alarm. It is particularly important that you tell those
around you what you are experiencing, something I did not do. The fact of
the matter is that I often had a dirty taste in my mouth or I smelt a dirty
odour, this is known as an aura. I never told my environment that, because I
thought that it was a consequence of my accident
A possible attack need not always be an epileptic seizure but it also can be
a stress attack, both are taken equally seriously.
I have a mix of both kinds; it took hospitalisation in a psychiatric ward to
finally determine this. People were of the opinion that the attacks were
psychic. To prove them wrong, I checked myself into the revalidation
department of a psychiatric hospital. Finally they diagnosed epilepsy.
The steps I then took to prove my point are not ones which you need to take. The best thing for you to do is to go straight to an epilepsy centre, all possible medication for the diagnose of epilepsy are used there and to make it more tolerable with the use of proper medication, even to cure it. They can also give advice on how to live with this handicap.
Difficult to deal with. “A lot of water flowed under the bridge” before I learnt to live with it. When I became incontinent it took me a long time to find suitable diapers. Initially I used disposables but:
I often leaked - I regularly had a rash - I quarrelled with sticky strips. - Had eczema, because there are materials in the disposables my skin doesn’t tolerate. - Got backache, because I had to lean against the wall to put the diapers on.However there was one disadvantage, I also had to wear plastic pants. It
took me a while before I realized that I didn’t have any choice.
- A handicap caused by oxygen deficiency at birth;
- Congenital handicap which becomes obvious at a later age;
- A handicap which can be caused by disease or an accident
The occupational therapeutic centre
Due
to the handicaps which may occur with TBI it is often nearly impossible to
find work in society. An O.T.C. centre is a way to find
a daily occupation.
Formerly you were merely kept occupied in an O.T.C. If you wanted to you could play games the all day
or watch TV. This bores quickly. The following is a list of what you can do at an O.T.C nowadays:
- Finding your daily rhythm;
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Meeting co-suffers;
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being understood and understanding;
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Working without deadline;
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Making social contacts, dealing with other people;
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Being assisted in coping with a different work situation (mainly volunteer
work);
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Learning a new hobby;
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Acquiring more of a fighting spirit;
- Not being alone at home. Making life at home easier;
- Taken care of, so that one can live at home longer.
I hope that I have informed you sufficiently.

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