How will people react once my family member comes home?
Connections to the community are tremendously important. Get your loved one back out there to anything your family member can get to. Survivors need to relearn a whole lot of things about the world and how it operates. It is very likely that your loved one will lose friends and relationships over time. In general, people don’t know much and feel uncertain about how to relate to survivors. Unfortunately, survivors are collectively a pretty stigmatized group. Many survivors who can pass without being noticed generally do. Most people, when thinking about survivors of brain injury, generally just know that they don’t want to be one. The Brain Injury Association in most states offers support groups for survivors and some have them for families as well. They can be found on the Internet or through the Brain Injury Association of America. You will meet a number of people there who very much understand what you and your loved one are going through. If there isn’t a support group in your area,
