This Book by Margaret Mysiw on surviving cancer is to help patients, families, and caregivers cope with depression and lonelines by use of practical suggestions to keep a positive attitude while enduring terminal-cancer and other disabling illnesses. Includes personal stories related to keeping a Positive Attitude throughout ones life. Incredible witness to experiencing death of multiple family members within a very short period of time while also faced with her own cancer and other ailments. Great suggestions at overcoming challenges of lonelines and suicidal thoughts. Ideas for family support and ways to include loved one in many activities designed to fight pain with pleasure. - margaret mysiw
This Book by Margaret Mysiw on surviving cancer is to help patients, families, and caregivers cope with depression and lonelines by use of practical suggestions to keep a positive attitude while enduring terminal-cancer and other disabling illnesses. Includes personal stories related to keeping a Positive Attitude throughout ones life. Incredible witness to experiencing death of multiple family members within a very short period of time while also faced with her own cancer and other ailments. Great suggestions at overcoming challenges of lonelines and suicidal thoughts. Ideas for family support and ways to include loved one in many activities designed to fight pain with pleasure. - margaret mysiw
The permanent effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) are not limited to the person who suffers the injury. People who care for the individual, particularly family members, suffer in various ways. Family members are often confused as to the behavioral and neuropsychological changes that they see in a brain-injured rela tive. They can become frustrated and angry when the individual does not return to premorbid levels of functioning. They can become tired and worn down from repeated problems in trying to manage the individual's difficulties while having only fragmented information regarding them. Drs. Smith and Godfrey have provided a useful service for family members by summarizing important neuropsychological changes associated with TBI and providing practical guidelines for coping with these problems. While the neuropsychological problems they describe are not completely understood, the authors provide a useful description of many of the neuro behavioral problems seen following TBI in young adults. They attempt to provide guidelines for family members that have practical utility in understanding and managing these patients. Theirs is a cognitive-behavioral approach that can have utility for this group of individuals. I applaud their efforts to provide something systematic and practical for family members.
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