I would add-- to the above handout-- that a person recovering from ANY type or degree of brain injury or illness must trust her/himself no matter how strange things seem to get, and no matter how poorly anyone else understands the circuitous route their re-wiring takes as it heals itself.

I would add that it is helpful if others TRY to understand, but that it is not at all necessary that a single one of them ever DOES.

I would add that for 99.9999999+% of human beans, it is absolutely true that each one knows Which Way Is Up, and instinctively grows in that direction, which will occur under even the most horrific conditions.

And I would add-- I would insist-- that this innate sense of where life lies is deserving of respect, most importantly from ourselves and toward ourselves. Because that innate sense-- and the freedom to move in that upward direction-- are, essentially, human.

~S~