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When brain injury changes your spouse into someone else

My husband's personality completely changed after his traumatic brain injury and I feel like I'm married to a stranger, but people say I should be grateful he survived.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Traumatic brain injury can end the person you married while leaving their body behind, creating grief without death or permission to mourn.

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