Facts

The traditionally happy life encompasses aspects of pleasure, engagement and
meaningfulness. After suffering from brain injuries people often find themselves
unable to enjoy some or all of these aspects due to inability to continue with hobbies
they may have had, engage with people on the same level as they may have previously,
loss of sensations such as taste and smell and therefore often fall into depression.
Positive Psychology actually has the ability to foster posttraumatic growth, meaning it
can make injury sufferers over-all happier (even more so than they were before).
Positive psychology allows individuals to re-assess what is important in life, live more
in the moment, identify what they are grateful for and to develop personal and intra￾personal goals for recovery. All this makes individuals with brain injuries more appre￾ciative of all aspects of life and allows them to return to their social and physical lives fater