Kicking Down Doors

Time for a bit more combative language!

This is the second half of my answer to how I cope with the amount my diffuse TBI left me to work on. (The first half of the answer is here.) I cope because I actually quite enjoy 'kicking down doors'! Literally kicking down doors would be a great way of hurting yourself and so I mean this figuratively! 'Kicking down doors' is how I describe the process of learning strategies to work around the constraints of a TBI. That description sounds really boring and so I prefer just to say, I kick down doors!

My TBI felt like it closed doors to all sorts of rooms I wanted to get in to - I could no longer reach the goals I'd set myself prior to my accident. I found, though, by thinking carefully about my constraints, I could often work out a way to eventually reach those goals - I could still get in to those rooms. I just needed to kick down the door to do so!

One of the arts to kicking down doors is working out which doors to kick down. Some doors are going to be easier to kick down than others and trying to kick down the wrong one can leave you with a very sore leg! Because of the importance of choosing the right door, I've written another post about it here.

I said above that I enjoy kicking down doors. I'm not quite sure why I do - perhaps wondering why is a bit like wondering why I also like sweets. That's just the way it is. I do believe, though, that a very large part of my recovery is due to my being that way. In an effort to help others find within themselves a determination to kick down doors, I've written the post, You Can!

Cheers,
Mike