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Musings Applying Liberation Psychology to Dealing with the Devastating After-effects of the Brain Damage of Herpes Simplex Encephalitis © 2001 Michele Toomey, PhD michele@mtoomey.com Introduction The Agony of Your Reactions to Anti-Seizure Medications and the Terror of Feeling Like You're Disintegrating Appreciating What We Have Escaping the Onus of Unworthiness On the Border Where to Put the Anger and the Pain? Reconciling the Paradox of Personal Struggle and Other's Struggle: When Choice is Lost New Musings Keep on Keeping On The Dilemma of Keeping A Spiritual Connection When Bodily Issues Clamor for Attention In Sharp Contrast Musings to sort... Strategies for Dealing with the Disorientation of Feeling Disconnected from Yourself Journaling And Once Again We Must "Deal with It" A Dramatic/Traumatic Turning Point Courage, Perseverance and Change Transition What Does Integrity Look Like Five Years Later? The Paradox of Brain Damage The Paradox of Gift and Curse The Struggle to Reconcile a Loud Body with a Sense of Well Being The Gift and Burden of Post-encephalitis The Intense Struggle to Find a Sense of Well Being The Changing Face of Reality Intimacy with Hard The Paradox of Feeling Energized and Capable The Joy of Reaping from Hard Work The Paradox of Intimacy with/in Self-Reflection Reconciling Sadness and Loss with Gratitude and Gain Memory Loss The Isolation of Brain Damage Sustaining a Strong Self-Image in the Face of Memory Loss In Stark Contrast: Learning to Value Being and Knowing Not Just of Doing and Proving Re-Defining and Re-Claiming "Feeling Like A Jerk" The Relentlessness of Brain Injury and Memory Loss Memory Loss and Credibility The Fatigue of Continuing to Need to Rediscover The Awesome Magnitude of Knowing May Day and Memory Loss Practical Strategies You're Not A Project The Guidelines for Living Out of the Musings Home Containment Confronting the Runaway Energy That's Triggered When You Anticipate or Do Tasks The Paradoxical Dilemma of Sleep Reflections on Being Awakened at Night and not Being Able to Get Back to Sleep Vehicles for Creating A Team with the Anxious One's Energy Relief and Discouragement The Tiring Need for Re-Learning and Repetition The Marathon of "Keep on Keeping On" The Relief of Feeling Alert and Renewed The Inner Joy of Journeying Well Dealing with Discouragement Pacing, Rhythm, and Timing Pacing and Rhythm The Process of Lining Things Up The Dilemma of Timing Containing Runaway Energy The Dilemma of Trying Too Hard Reconciling Sadness and Loss with Gratitude and Gain Yielding to Brain Damage Yielding's Gift The Complexity of Yielding to the Brain Damage Dealing with the Powerlessness of Having a Damaged Brain Reaping From What We Sow The Toll of Never Being "Cured" The Price of Brain Damage Revisited Daring to go to Yale-New Haven Hospital for Observation and Monitoring The Freedom of Dealing With It Dealing with Harsh Reality The Capacity to Savor and Embrace Daring to Maximize Our Potential Integrity, Intimacy, and Inspiration A Closer Look at Integrity The Depth of Being That Intimacy with Integrity Brings The Gift of Integrity Integrity of Discouragement and Despair The Role of Inspiration in the Healing/Recovery Process The Christmas of the Millennium Reflecting on the Millennium New Year Mother and Daughter: The Added Complication of Brain Damage Proclaim It to the World Capturing the Essence of Meditation and inspiration Circling Back on the Gift of the Paradox

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