Amanda Burrill, a veteran of the U.S. navy, worried that many of her deployed peers thought she was a hypochondriac. After getting a traumatic brain injury (TBI) on the job, she started having unusual symptoms. However, she sensed her colleagues thought she was just “struggling mentally and emotionally” because she was at war, and she was a woman amongst men.
References
Military Health System. (2023). TBI Patient and Family Resources.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. (n.d.). Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
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