BIRN- Have I died and gone to hell - With Craig Sicilia

Have I Died and Gone to Hell

Host by Craig Sicilia

Brain Injury at best is one of the harshest most sinister life changing disabilities a person can experience.  It is not fair how it strips pieces of who we once were to the point that we must recreate ourselves.  Leaving us many times trying to navigate this hell.  All the time those who we need most cannot even see it, and by the time people get this figured out we have caused so much damage to the infrastructure of our lives.

So here is this completely new person, with no support, no understanding.  Many times they are labeled bi-polar, on drugs, crazy.  And all that is happening is this reformation, relearning of any of the skills we lost, and on many survivors’ minds is this unfairness of how people treated us along this journey.  Resentment, anger and even hate and rage have come from this.

The time is now, that we the survivors of the world need to let new survivors know what could be in store, we need to connect our disability community to pose it in a position of power not of one of division and weakness.  65 million of us.

Together there is nothing we cannot achieve

Alone we get lost in the dark corners of society