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Originally Posted by rena6787
Has anyone heard of the books Brain Injury Rewiring for Survivors and Brain Injury Rewiring for Loved Ones?
I'm trying to help my son whose skull was fractured when he was a baby. As I read more about TBI, I wonder if he would be different than he is today if the accident hadn't have happened. He's even asked me that same question.
He has terrible headaches, dark horrible thoughts that he doesn't want to have and can't sleep without a sleeping pill.
Any ideas or suggestions?
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I have recently read these books, they are very helpful. Only thing is they are full of alternative treatment stuff that in my opinion have very little basis in medical fact; use your own judgment.
Probably quite overwhelming for many TBI survivors, but this TBI author had been writing these books for 30 years so they are chock full of info and must be taken as companion books, don't just read one of them so that both sides, survivor and caregiver, can "team up". Overall, I do recommend them.
Your sons symptoms are all very common in TBI and it is likely they are a result of his injury, but as Mark suggests, that probably can't really be known to be so. Check the side effects of his sleeping pill, especially if he hadn't had the headaches or dark thoughts before he started taking them.