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Hi, @patty78962 - I moved your post into its own discussion as I thought it merited it. Hoping that others will join and talk about what cognitive therapies have been useful and successful in their journeys toward healing with a traumatic brain injury.

Tagging @gablou17 @ponygirlnd @hunnyboo @3rdrg @waterwoman9 @healthysonia @lakelifelady @gentlewitch, who have all talked about traumatic brain injury, to join in this discussion and give offer their thoughts.

For example, have any of these therapies been helpful to you?
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

If not any of these, has another type of cognitive therapy been successful for you after your traumatic brain injury? Something else?

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(Again, this is my husband writing on my behalf, because I can no longer interface with digital devices). Although I've not tried any of the listed therapies, I am under the care of a psychotherapist who is administering Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to address childhood trauma that may be impeding my recovery. One thing I've learned about TBIs is that they can reopen a lot of life's traumas that we thought we'd buried. Also, do not ignore your eyes! My TBI left me with a neuro-ophthalmic problem, and the vision therapy I've received (eye-tracking, saccades, etc.) have seemed to help. Have a neuro-ophthalmologist perform a TBI/concussion evaluation. I also recommend two books to everyone: Besser van de Kolk's "The Body Keeps the Score," and Clark Elliot's "The Ghost in My Brain." Hope this helps!

As a retired EALP facilitator I find the above therapies to be annoying because I’ve been doing so myself, with and for others for some time with horses facilitating. Otherwise, I don’t know what category you put it in, but ‘refocus’ is helpful and accepting that overdoing either socially or physically requires four days of rest before making any life changing decisions. Doctors repeatedly tell me to keep doing what I’m doing. (Some brain and physical PT, living in an age-in-place home with attached barn and caring for (riding when possible) two horses. ) My major allergies are cooking, housework, BS, red tape, shopping and noisy social: my Anecdote is outdoors. When overwhelmed by activities there is nothing I can do but rest until my personality and energy is appropriate again. Where I live there is no TBI support and I feel my condition worsening each year so figure that late effects of 2006 sinus radiation may be still eating at my system.