He may look like he's fully recovered from a serious car crash but, a year on, Cooper Maher is still silently suffering the impacts of a brain injury.
Almost a year after a horror crash, 24-year-old Cooper Maher is still recovering from a brain injury.abc.net.au/news/traumatic-brain-injury-the-silent-disability-impacting-lives/102763996Cooper Maher had just buried a friend who died by suicide when he jumped behind the wheel of a car after having a few drinks.One in 45 Australians live with a brain injury
The crash occurred in November 2022 and, almost a year on, he said it was not the physical injuries that still impacted him, but the invisible one no-one noticed."It is reasonably common," occupational therapist Jenny Goodfellow said. "People with a brain injury are often walking and talking and to the general public look like they're just normally functioning," Ms Goodfellow said.
"Things like thinking skills, memory, planning, concentration, difficulties with communication, difficulties with physical skills, changes to behaviour, mood, [or] emotions," Ms Goodfellow said.Adam Scott, 38, said the psychological side of his brain injury had been the biggest challenge. "Just learning the basic fundamentals of day-to-day living again that were taken away from me with the injury [has been the hardest].""For me, lying in a hospital bed with no broken bones, no sign of an injury. I didn't have an understanding that I had gone through a traumatic brain injury," he said.
"We take things for granted like making a cup of tea or planning an evening meal, we just do it," Ms Goodfellow said.
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