When a person suffers a traumatic brain injury, they will often experience fear, anger, regret, and depression due to the fact that their life and quality of life has been drastically changed because of the traumatic brain injury. Fortunately, traumatic brain injury counseling can help the patient to deal with these emotions, work through their feelings toward the injury, and develop a new outlook and determination to regain as much quality of life as possible in spite of the injury.
What Causes the Patient’s Emotions After the Traumatic Brain Injury?
A patient will experience such emotions as fear over losing their freedom of movement and quality of life due to the injury. They may experience depression over how their life will change and whether they will ever regain their lost movement and quality of life. They may experience regret and anger over actions that may have directly or indirectly led to the injury that caused their current condition.
How Traumatic Brain Injury Counseling Can Help a Patient
The traumatic brain injury counseling is designed to help the patient express their emotions stemming from the injury. They can express their fear and depression over their loss of movement and their fear and doubt over whether they will regain their movement and quality of life. They can express their anger and regret over any actions that they took that may have led to the injury that has caused their current condition.
All of this can help them to quell their fear and doubt, help them to forgive themselves for any actions that may have led to the injury, and help them to realize they can develop the determination to regain as much movement and quality of life as they can in spite of the injury. They can work to realize that their life is not over despite the injury and can work toward a new chapter, a new beginning in their life to where they can still a meaningful, purposeful life after the injury.
Moody Neuro provides the resources, programs, and services for encouraging and effective traumatic brain injury counseling to patients who have suffered such an injury.. Learn more about our programs and services at Moodyneuro.org.
