This is a part of the podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Irritability, Anger, and Aggression after TBI. Shelbi Williams discusses irritability after her TBI. 

I felt like there were things that triggered my anger or triggered my irritability a lot faster, and sometimes it wasn't even certain things that he did or said. I didn't even know why. I didn't know why I was getting so angry or so irritable, and this couple's care gave us the tools to sit down or even be able to have a conversation like, okay, this is how I felt when you responded to me this way. I don't know if you meant to react that way, but this is what I'm seeing. And that helped me realize and try and be more cognizant of my actions, of my words, and of my mood and outward expressions. I tried harder to realize where he was coming from and vice versa. If we were in an argument more often than not, he was the one that had to realize that maybe he was taking something the wrong way or come out and say, Shelbi, you're acting this way. Do you feel this way? Or is it just being portrayed this way? There was a time of adjusting and trying to learn from each other. 

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