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Shireen Jeejeebhoy is an artist, author, and blogger. She obtained a B.Sc. in psychology from the University of Toronto, launched into writing and coding, and slammed and somersaulted into the unknown life of brain injury.
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Concussion Is Brain Injury:
Treating the Neurons and Me
Beautifully written first person account of life after a brain injury. . . . This is a must read for anyone with a brain injury and anyone who is close to someone with a brain injury.
Lifeliner:
The Judy Taylor Story
A compelling story. . . . Reading it will make you laugh, smile, cringe, cry and most importantly, think. If you want inspiration, Lifeliner has no shortage packed into its pages.
Time and Space
What an amazing journey into the future! . . . There are some interesting future technologies: I loved that scene with the elimination vessel, and I wouldn’t mind trying those shoes! . . . I couldn’t stop reading until the end.
Aban’s Accension
To the author’s credit, avoids religiosity and preachiness . . . With this approach, Jeejeebhoy lets Aban’s Accension remain a gentle allegory, which may play in the reader’s consciousness (as it has mine) for weeks or months.
- Changing how a medical specialty is practiced should come with a warning and take into account the vulnerability of patients with brain injury.
- People with brain injury who’ve lost their reading comprehension cannot access bibliotherapy, so it’s critical that they receive treatment so they can benefit from it.
- Brain injury grief remains relatively unexplored, but we can take pointers from other areas of research, and from mourning elephants.
- No one can return to the “normal” before times. Deep within us lies the knowledge that “normal” is a false front, nostalgia deceives, and we must deal with reality.
- A concussion, or COVID-19, devastates us when we learn it has a vastly different progression than acute illness. Understanding the stages of brain injury recovery helps.
Brain Injury Grief is Extraordinary Grief
We are beginning to understand the nature of grief from brain injury.
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Marriage Breakdown After Brain Injury
What do therapists need to know to help ailing marriages after brain injury?
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The How of Loving Detachment
After brain injury, how do you disengage from people who make you feel worse?
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COVID-19 Welcomes the World to Brain Injury-Type Isolation
A virus shows the world what life is like for their injured friends and family.
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Telogen Effluvium, aka Stress-Induced Hair Loss
Did you know a concussion affects hair? Hair loss is real!
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Art Fit To Wear:
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Recent Blog Posts
What Makes Reading Enjoyable?
Cognitive Empathy For Reading Loss After Brain Injury
Reading Loss: The Genesis of Grief, The Seed of PTSD
Ontario Election in Twitter Threads
What’s In A Name? Me!
Concussion Is Brain Injury:
Treating the Neurons and Me
The book is divided into chapters where some are like a novel because she is telling us her thoughts through this nightmare and then [other chapters are] more like science information . . . to give encouragement and advice. A very brave woman.
She:
An Urban Fantasy
Put simply this is the best urban fantasy story that I have ever read period. From word one I was hooked into this tale, possessed by it if you will.