← Return to Adult Life after a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

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@david33

I have to say "WOW", I have found someone I can truly relate to without someone calling me crazy. My experience started 2 1/2 years ago. I was helping my husband and friend unload a trailer full of split wood, and my husband threw one and I raised up at the same time, and the wood hit my right temple.
Now I get angry over stupid things, and I have no energy to do anything. My family would say I have done or said things that I truly don't remember, so now I sit in my own corner, and only try to speak when needed because I'm scared of the outburst of anger and not knowing the cause.
I went to counseling and they put me on medicine, but all the medicine did was make my symptoms worse, so I told the doctors I was taking any more of them. I'm trying to go back to school, (online) to see if staying to one thing while others here at home take care of everything will help. My husband tells me he understands why I'm ignoring everything and everyone and he wishes he could help, but he also has issues also with a shunt in his head that is changing his personality, which doctors tell us it's all in our heads and nothing is wrong with us and we all just want to have something to complain about.
So I stopped talking to the doctors, and pray every night for my symptoms to get better, as well for my husband to get the help he deserves.

Thank you again for this post, I know it wasn't easy for you to post this. It helped me and left me to know I'm not alone.

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Hello @david33 and thank you for joining in this discussion. I am so sorry to hear of your accident when you were hit by the wood. It sounds as if you have some problems related to this accident. Were you examined and treated for a TBI after your accident with an MRI or scan?

It sounds as if you could use some help with physical, occupational therapy at the very least. I encourage you to see a neurologist and get examined and treated. As you have read from these other discussions, there are treatments that help. You don't have to go this alone.

That is wonderful that you are able to take some online classes. Learning new things can be invigorating. Are you enjoying the classes?

All i can say is Wow back....sorry you are having doctor issues....I have had no better luck in that department infact when I asked for help over these issues i was held in a phyic ward for 3 days and now am being treated even worse then before.
They didnt beleive me before and its much worse now.....
Trying to lay low like you, keep my head down and stop looking for help..
There must be people, like on this site that understand us..
We are in this toghether you always have me
Keep well my friend
William

So sorry to hear that you are dealing with all of this. We are never alone, but it can be hard to find others out there. Thank you for connecting and sharing.
Dawn