As a result, they immediately revert to their self-centred behaviour when only the family is around. In some cases, the person may be able to portray a cheerful, caring unchanged personality around their old friends, but this is a very difficult task for the person, which uses a lot of cognitive and emotional energy, and it can’t be maintained for very long.
Friends can be even less likely to tolerate self-centredness and move away from the friendship, leaving family as the person’s only social connections. After discharge, a relieved family will go to great lengths to help with the continuing rehabilitation process, usually making many sacrifices in time, money and effort on the road to recovery.įamily members can grow resentful over time if a person with a brain injury has trouble feeling or expressing gratitude for the sacrifices they have made. This inability to see another’s point of view can be very destructive, as the family often cannot understand how a previously caring person now lives completely for themselves and has no insight into how they are affecting the family.įamilies are usually overjoyed when a loved one survives the initial trauma of a brain injury.
Every time he sulks and complains that I don’t really care about him.” This has been so exhausting that I’ve arranged respite one night a fortnight to have coffee with friends for an afternoon.
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“ I gave up my job to look after Andrew full time. But now she never takes an interest in my life anymore and gets frustrated when the kids want her attention.” “ Before her stroke, Belinda was a great listener. No matter what I’m doing he expects me to drop everything to do the smallest tasks and responds with outbursts the moment he doesn’t get his way.” We’ve made so many sacrifices since his hospital discharge, but he says we have not been supportive. “Gavin used to be a thoughtful and considerate husband and father. That is because they lose the ability to see the world from another person’s perspective and have little or no self-awareness about how their behaviour is impacting on others. Some people with brain injury can appear to become very self-centred and display egocentricity more normally associated with a young child.
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