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Traumatic Brain Injury: Come introduce yourself
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@headrockingmomma - I think that the attitude of gratefulness will get you far. I ended up in cognitive behavioral therapy years ago when I didn't know anything about it, and I truly found that ruminating on negative thoughts all day (e.g., I'm no good) will just wreck you after awhile.
Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect, and I'm grateful you are still breathing, as you mentioned, and that you are taking your medications and using tools that will help you function optimally despite your injury. You are indeed among "your people" here.
What turned you around from grieving and mourning (which are normal, by the way), to focus on what you wanted to celebrate and be grateful for?
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@lisalucier so I actually started off my Mayo group routine by reading messages oldest to newest and reading “icydecember’s” storry and that they were able to go back to work a few short weeks later was astounding to me and it gave me soooo much hope and complete turned my heart around and triggered me to put on attitude of gratefulness. So just goes to show how we each affect those we come into contact with why not try to be the light in someone’s darkness? Better yet try my best to be my own light at the same time if I’m feeling:( ehh yucky so that’s how it came about