keeping hope is difficult in trauma situations... celebrating small achiements is important...as small as able to type, reflect, talk, rest, feel better... developing a routine.

I lost my routine... execise plus meditation. Affirmations help...it did... its important to condition your mind and prepare your brain as well... for tasks... planning...organizing. Letting ideas take shape... songs and music help.

Its very hard to take help actually, but the soul cries and screams...and there is for many people no safe place to express these things without shame, and feeling weak...so support groups help.

I have not faced brain injury, but I had a bleeding forehead...and wrote creative articles... after treatment... I cried for a month... and stopped to get into action mode. I had my dimensions of humorous self, my writing self... I made space for that inspite of severe work load and emotional distress... I still go through emotional distress, I did have brain fog... but I some how write articles still...

so I actually have small remedies... healing is hard... self awareness helps for people like me who can digest truth not many can but it helps...anyway...

here is my story of recovery then - @mintymile/from-struggle-to-survival-my ...that recovery meant getting my energy back and ability to write(: ...but full recovery from emotional distress is different.

Anyway sharing thoughts makes things lighter... I guess Loop distress has to be broken...through engaging activities but if distress is so acute that it prevents doing activity...lightening load helps... and counselling...I had with chatgpt then... give permission to rest, have peace and pause... let sunlight be a opputinity to bask inspite the trauma or pain. Anyway

its a good initiate to make others feel better... because you say they have value and they matter...and it gives them strenght to hope again... or try live a better life atleast.