I hit the left side of my head in my car accident causing a Traumatic Brain Injury.  This caused me to have no short term memory of anything that I heard with my ears.  In the early years it also caused [[http://psychcentral.com/lib/what-is-catastrophizing/0001276|Catastrophizing]], that is //everything// that did not go as planed was a catastrophe.  I did overcome that one with the passing of the years.

<WRAP info>
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a disruption of brain function resulting from a blow or jolt to the head or penetrating head injury.
</WRAP>

  * [[http://www.army.mil/tbi|Traumatic rain Injury]] [[http://www.army.mil|The United States Army]]
  * [[http://dvbic.dcoe.mil/about/tbi-military|TBI & the Military]]: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant health issue which affects service members and veterans during times of both peace and war. The high rate of TBI and blast-related concussion events resulting from current combat operations directly impacts the health and safety of individual service members.
  * [[http://cdmrp.army.mil/phtbi|Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs' Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (PH/TBI) Research Program (formerly called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury Research Program)]]
  * [[http://www.pdhealth.mil/tbi.asp|Deployment Health Clinical Center Traumatic Brain Injury]]
  * [[http://www.wrnmmc.capmed.mil/Health%20Services/Surgery/Orthopaedics%20and%20Rehabilitation/Traumatic%20Brain%20Injury/SitePages/Home.aspx|Traumatic Brain Injury Service / Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC)]] at [[http://www.wrnmmc.capmed.mil|Walter Reed National Military Medical Center]].
  * [[http://www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury|Injury Prevention & Control: Traumatic Brain Injury]] by [[http://www.cdc.gov|Center for Disease Control (CDC)]].
  * [[http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/tbi/tbi.htm|NINDS Traumatic Brain Injury Information]] by [[http://www.ninds.nih.gov|National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke]].  
  * [[http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/traumatic-brain-injury/basics/definition/con-20029302|Traumatic brain injury]] by [[http://www.mayoclinic.org|Mayo Clinic]].
  * [[wp>Traumatic_brain_injury]]


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