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Common Personality Changes
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*Disinhibition
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*Suspiciousness
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*Lack of awareness of deficits and unrealistic self-appraisal
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*Reduction in capacity for empathy
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*Child-like emotional reactions or behavior
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*Uncontrolled laughing or crying
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*Preoccupation with one's own concerns
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*Rage reactions
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*Euphoria
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*"Flat" effect or reduced emotion
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*Agitation
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*Reduced or altered sense of humor
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*Low frustration tolerance
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*Misperception of other people's expressions or intentions
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*Hypersexuality or Hyposexuality
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*Catastrophic emotional reactions
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Common Cognitive Deficits
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*Reductions in abstract reasoning capacity
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*Visual-spatial impairments, including trouble with directions, mechanical
tasks, or visual field deficits
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*Difficulty grasping the main point of a discussion
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*Low fatigue threshold for cognitive activities
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*Difficulty applying points of interest to one's life
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*Problems with planning and organizing
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*Reductions in complex information processing skills
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*Initiation deficits
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*Impaired attention and concentration
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*Confusion and perplexity
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*Heightened distractibility
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*Problems with flexibility of thinking
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*Difficulty with new learning and short-term memory
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*Basic intellectual deficits as measured by IQ tests
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*Subtle communication problems (eg.tangentially)
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*Slowness in thinking and performance
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*Judgment problems
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Common Psychological Responses
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*Depression
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*Anxiety
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*Panic
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*Shame
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*Humiliation
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*Grief
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*Loss
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*Sadness
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*Irritability
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*Deep sense of anger over what has happened
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*Blame
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*Hopelessness and despair
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*Helplessness
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*Reduced self-esteem
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*Withdrawal from social contact
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*Increased sense of dependency on others
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*Psychologically-based denial or minimization of problems
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*Defensiveness
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*Pre-occupation with the past
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*Unrealistic expectations of family, friends, and co-workers
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