What No One Could Have Prepared Me For: Invisible Loneliness

About this episode

Megan discusses the invisible struggles faced by brain injury survivors and their families, focusing on loneliness and the process of grief.

Brain injuries leave survivors and their families with many invisible struggles. There is no way to be prepared for them. Most people don't even know how to start talking about the struggles or when and where to even bring them up. Loneliness in the middle of ambiguous loss is confusing to sort out but it can be very real. Megan talks about the survival technique of compartmentalizing and when working through your grief and finding closure becomes necessary. Website and Socials

People in this episode

Host: Megan Daubert

Topics covered

• brain injuries
• invisible struggles
• loneliness
• grief
• closure
• compartmentalizing

Keywords

• brain injuries
• loneliness
• grief
• compartmentalizing
• ambiguous loss
• survival techniques

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