Dealing with a person who has brain damage or living with this condition is not the easiest situation in life. While some aspects of this transition will never change, cognitive therapy is proving that their is hope. Aside from the challenges of caregivers, there are many areas of personal development a person with brain damage can expect to accomplish over the course of the first few years after the injury occurred. However, when cognitive therapy is underutilized, the aftermath can mean that healing and personal development after brain damage injury is not easy to accomplish.