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What cognitive therapies have been helpful for you?
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) | Last Active: May 23 10:52am | Replies (18)Comment receiving replies
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.
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@ponygirlnd
I am with you on a lot of what you said. We must avoid things that annoy and frustrates us. Outdoors is the key. I have had an animal refuge for 16 years, no dogs or cats, just: turkeys, chickens, ducks, bunnies, guinea pigs, turtles and a resent surrender, an old goose. They are a joy to watch and understand their actions, and how they interact with each other. I learn something everyday with them, and they always make me laugh. Being a human is hard. Animals have a much more simplistic life. This morning, after parading the flock in the front yard, I sat on the porch with binoculars trying to figure out what kind of wild ducks were flying around town the past few weeks. After Googling, and consulting my birding book, discover they are Black Bellied Whistling ducks. Showed my guys and pressed voice so they can hear and see what kind of birds they were. They paid attention, and was in aw how I was able to make the duck sound and show the ducks on a tablet. When we interact with another species, we learn much about ourselves.