Emotional Adjustment

• Alcohol and Substance Abuse
  Alcohol use is a complicated issue for people with SCI. On the one hand, it’s a socially acceptable and legal activity under many circumstances. On the other hand, it can have many negative effects. Now that you have a spinal cord injury [SCI] you may want to consider whether it’s safe...
  

  Posted on: Wed, Mar 30, 2011

• Coping with Depression
  Spinal cord injury (SCI) is one of the most difficult health events you can experience. Suddenly, your life changes. The injury changes not only how you move about and how you function physically, but also how you live, how you work and even how you relate to others. Perhaps the most difficult c...
  

  Posted on: Fri, May 28, 2010

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• Psychosocial Adjustment - Spinal Cord Injury and Your Family
  A spinal cord injury in one family member has a big impact on all members. The changes your family must make are in many ways as large as the changes that you have to make. Knowing about issues that may arise might decrease your frustration and sense of helplessness as all of you begin adjusting to these changes.
  

  Posted on: Thu, Jun 2, 2011

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• Spinal Cord Injury & Alcohol Use
  You may wish to continue enjoying alcohol when you return to the community following your spinal cord injury (SCI), and are wondering how safe it is for you to do so.
  

  Posted on: Thu, Feb 10, 2011

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• Spirituality
  Brochure from Craig Hospital in Colorado about spirituality after spinal cord injury. Because spinal cord injury can be a life changing event, your whole way of life - including your spirituality -- is challenged. You may find yourself questioning your life goals, work, responsibilities to yo...
  

  Posted on: Fri, May 28, 2010

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• Spirituality & Spiritual Care
  Spirituality relates to beliefs, thoughts, feelings and actions concerning how we understand our life and our world, and the meaning we make of it. These questions are often experienced by those who have suffered a traumatic injury and are facing the challenges of rehabilitation.
  

  Posted on: Thu, Jun 2, 2011

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• Understanding and managing stress
  It's important to learn how to manage stress following SCI to maintain your emotional health.
  

  Posted on: Fri, Jun 10, 2011

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• You Are How You Feel
  Brochure from Craig Hospital in Colorado about the relationship between how you feel and your physical health. It turns out that many different researchers in many different papers have come to a similar conclusion: people's self-rated health has a strong relationship to their actual physical...
  

  Posted on: Fri, May 28, 2010

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