Relationships After TBI consists of a suite of resources to help individuals with TBI and their partners enjoy meaningful and fulfilling relationships.
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Relationships After TBI
Our featured video and brief video clips show the impact of traumatic brain injury (TBI) on a couple’s relationship. Hugh and Rosemary Rawlins share how they worked with TBI Model System researchers to address challenges they faced after Hugh experienced a TBI.
Relationships After Traumatic Brain Injury
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Sexuality After Traumatic Brain Injury
Changes in sexual functioning are common after TBI. If you are experiencing sexual problems, there are things you can do to help resolve these problems. The information below describes common sexual problems after TBI and ways to improve sexual functioning.
How does a traumatic brain injury affect sexual functioning?
The following changes in sexual functioning can happen after TBI:
Emotional Problems After Traumatic Brain Injury
A brain injury can change the way people feel or express emotions. An individual with TBI can have several types of emotional problems.
Difficulty controlling emotions or “mood swings”
Some people may experience emotions very quickly and intensely but with very little lasting effect. For example, they may get angry easily but get over it quickly. Or they may seem to be “on an emotional roller coaster” in which they are happy one moment, sad the next and then angry. This is called emotional lability.
Sexuality after a Traumatic Brain Injury
Changes in sexual functioning are common after TBI. If you are experiencing sexual problems, there are things you can do to help resolve these problems. The information in this slideshow describes common sexual problems after TBI and ways to improve sexual functioning.
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