Learning to Accept Ourselves when Other People Cannot or Will not Discussion Topic and Poster

Through my experience I learned a painful reality. Learning to accept
ourselves when other people cannot or will not can be very difficult. Such
a difficulty can leave us feeling stuck behind invisible walls.

In August 2007 I wrote a 4 part article series: My Struggle Living with an Invisible Disability. In December 2011 I revisited this article in a 5 Part article series: Traumatic Brain Injury — My Struggle Living with an Invisible Disability Part 1 Revisited.

If you would like to read this article series, pleas click on the below link. Each of the other 4 parts of the article series are linked at the bottom of part 1.

Traumatic Brain Injury — My Struggle Living with an Invisible Disability Part 1 Revisited

Below are several comments I received:

Scott C — Wonderful analysis of the scope of folks survivors interact with, Craig. Very cogent and balanced. Appreciate your lucid voice in the midst of our lives-with-strangeness. Thanks, man…

Chris B — Wow, I got to say I’m very impressed with your ability to articulate your experince with hidden disabilities and everything you’ve dealt with. You speak my experince. I’m diagnosed bi-polar, hearing loss of around 50 percent since 1 and a half, late diagnosed until 11. You givin me the ability to forgive myself once again. I think it’s so hard when they tell “you we have a victim mentality, which is just another way of saying get over it you cry baby” I suspect now due to your testamony that I too have tbi which also cause my hearing loss and mental illness is actually a TBI espisode that happen. You speak not only from a tbi experince, but a hidden disability one. Awesome. I know you relate to others with hidden disabilities of any kind friend. Thanks for posting and I like your website too, which is how I found this video.

To make the information available is a different format, I created a presentation, to be used in a support group setting or in any other setting. Let me know and we can get this scheduled.