Recovery from Brain Injury Occurs for the Rest of a Person's Life

My son had overdose on a pill loaded with fetynal. His brain went without oxygen. No pulse no heartbeat but they brought him back. His thinking ability is all there and very smart. Speech is slow but can spell of trying to tell you his needs. Physically, can lift leg a bit and move one arm down. Can’t sit up at all. I’m praying he recovers physically. It’s been 6 months.

My TBI was not properly diagnosed for a few years(it was 10 years ago). I remember going to a specialist and thinking I would be a waste of her time. She started telling me how my life was. I was blown away because she was spot on! I finally had to stop working, which has been devastating. I recently found watercolor painting and it feels like it’s starting to make connections.

How long can you receive SSDI with a brain injury

I had a head injury 5 years ago, still I have pain in the area even when I touch that area

What about people who get movement disorders after TBI?

What if the baby had a nose bleed after the head bump (about 6 inches high while crawling), but still acts normally within 48 hours? ❤️

Not to gloat or anything,
but the few people I still care about in this world finally acquired enough awareness on the topic of TBI that they no longer attribute my personal shortcomings and recurring challenges in life to me being "just an asshole,"
... ninteen years post-injury.

Baby steps! 💀

I am still recovering. I had injury in 1999, two surgeries later. Taking every day as it comes.

My TBI came from 8 minutes no breath suffered apoxic the t word I forgot had it for a few days thesemic then it just came back . My body is strong and I learned to talk agian learn to walk it’s crazy I just laugh but I can see it’s a frustrating thing my wife has been a angel

I woke up on the floor and my head was bleeding. I had psychosis and memory loss and insomnia afterward. That was 4 years ago. I can still function ok but it still affects me.

My boyfriend left our house on his bike and then vanished for 11 days. On day 12 he was found wandering around outside. He knew his name and details from highschool age and before (he is 34 years old), but no clue what happened to him or anything recent. The first time I spoke to him he had no idea who I was. He asked if he'd been staying at my house... I was like, um, yeah we LIVE together and the day you disappeared you told me I was the love of your life. The whole drive to see him I just cried my eyes out. Once I got there his face lit up. He tell me it had been awhile since he'd seen me but he knew that I was someone that he loved dearly. Over the next few days he was able to remember how we met and that we were in a relationship and some other random details. He still does not remember where we live or what he did for work or anything like that. His memory is coming back very very slowly. This is one of the weirdest things I've ever experienced it felt like the Twilight zone having someone I'm in love with tell me that they don't remember me when I first talked to them... I am just so grateful that he is alive and recovering even though it's slow. ❤😢😊❤❤❤

I needed to see this

In Philippines, getting a traumatic brain injury will conclude to death. Neurosurgeons are scarce.

Mujhe 10 saal se brain Mai neend nahi aati

Thank you for sharing this information!! People are so misinformed and give up on their loved ones. My daughter suffered a TBI 13 years ago and she has continued to improve and I am so thankful she has the opportunity to enjoy life and love

Hit and run 2020 on my moped I was cut off hit passenger fender and was thrown across the hood broken skull brain bleed brain damage TBI facial fractures and some how I walked into the ambulance 4 days in ICU don’t think they gave me enough time due to COVID

The title of this video made me cry. I will never be like I was again. Ill never be the same.

Phish - Driver is the best way to explain my days.

Is this apply to anoxic brain injury too? Please

What is root cause of brain tumor?

I wish people would realise that nobody can recover from most brain injuries and Shouldn't be using that term.

😭😭🌷

I'm coming up on my 40th anniversary of surviving my TBI from being shot twice in the head in 1984. It's been a heluva road back and yes, it takes years to rewire yourself. I've written my story into essay form and am currently trying to put it into a book format to go into more detail. My injuries forced me to push myself harder than I ever thought possible. Never quit on yourself, just one day at a time, never stop trying. TBI is an incredibly difficult thing to survive, mine hurt really, really bad.

I found this poem years ago in my recovery from my TBI from being shot in the head. It helped motivate me to push myself harder than I ever thought possible. I hope someone else can use these words now.

DEFEAT

“No one is beat till he quits, No one is through till he stops.

No matter how hard Failure hits, No matter how often he drops,

A fellow's not down till he lies in the dust and refuses to rise.

Fate can slam him and bang him around,

And batter his frame till he's sore,

But she can never say he's down, while he bobs up serenely for more.

A fellow's not dead till he dies, nor beat till he no longer tries."

Starting to care a lot more about myself in life, and realising that 13 years ago I was attacked and left with a head injury I never knew what to do about or who to tell that would beleive me, now dealing with seizures and just starting to ask about therapy its taking away from my life again and I dont know what to do.

We are not alone. Be strong ❤

I too personally struggle from several head injuries that ive been too lost at times in the manic depression or proud to mention here.

They've left me unemployed. Homeless. And abandoned by my spouse. I lose jobs. I can't seem to organize my life to get into a stable situation because I have no money to support myself.

Ill share my few I CAN remember as best as i can.

When I was little i had a big rock about half a bowling ball brother left on his top bunk for little brother to pull his blanket in the morning and have land on his little brothers head. Broke skin. Bled alot. 2-3)


Yafl football for 4 years through middle school.
defensive back, offensive tight end and special teams first contact. (I rarely left the field).


Parental suicide at (15) My Dad.

(17)
Jumped in high-school for dating a known wanted drug dealers, ex girlfriend.
Rendered unconscious and beaten by 3 cars full of 18-40 yo men all i remembered. Full of mexicans.
(Stayed with her)

Next year she cheated and left with the scumbag.

Next year (19) I moved to Madera California with my mom little brother. 6 months in i got sucker punched by some old nazi
When he sat down acrossed from me and my little brother and started pressing us for "looking Mexican". Go figure.
...
I called the guy an stupid bigot and he demanded i repeat myself. I did. He got up and pretended to walk away and hit me hella hard from behind.
I tried to defend myself and he hit the same spot again several times i got up he hit me again. My brother and another group jumped on him and somehow i was in the truck headed home .

Everyone looked panicked when the streetlights hit me and i remembered there shock and it haunts me to this day..
My mom about had a heart atack when she seen me
and rushed me to the emergency room .
The attacker had violently broken a blood vessel in my
temple and swelled my face and both eyes black shut .
Again . No insurance. I was "stabilized" than sent home.
After I struggled with severe depression and inability to think clearly. I lost my balance and some cognitive ability and sensitivity to heat.


Fastfoward Later (28) 2013.

"Last time I held a job down more than a few months."
Struggling to keep Jobs

mental health decline.

Trying for a new life as a sheer and brake operator for awhile before a company hit layed half the fab shop all the welders and my crew off. I had to start working for a paving company. 1st days on the job on dickson highway in Oklahoma august 2013.
Severe Heatstroke unconscious and in 120°+ and left under a damn tree for 4 hours unconscious. Before my kids mother came looking for me and found me and took me to the emergency room. Once again corporate hospitality "Stabilized" me and Released me for no insurance and had one a week later. Tried to come to work 2 days later. Couldnt walk or talk properly. (Fired for seeming drunk.)

My wife was my last hope at the time of my injury .
I mean at that critical hour when it was help or suffer before I got misconstrued as a lost cause drunk for fighting with my brother and ending up with a ((felony resisting charge(NOT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE)for refusing arrest when we had been deescalated naturally as brothers for a hour before i was )) though my head trauma made it difficult to understand the situation and not plead guilty to a chargeI didn't need to. Any normal person would have fought and beat that charge.

I try not to blame her. We were both young when I had the heat strokes injury and she couldn't deal with me declining so she abandoned me. she didn't know I needed help. she Didn't know what to do.

Especially when all the medical professionals i seen wanted to do is try To num it and mask my depression with prescribed medication and when that didnt work alcohol was readily available. and I got myself in legal trouble which further missed further complicated and misconstrued my situation i wouldnt have a criminal record if it werent for alcohol abuse from self medication. I quit and started to heal on my own.
(The doctors refuse to see you without insurance or a big pocket.)

I struggle every day with misunderstanding and judgement. I am not desired when i apply for work knowing i will struggle to keep up and eventually lose the job. It took me from 6:23am to 9:02am to proof read this voice text .


Moral of this story is.


We are stronger than you realize . Some of us just need a little help up.


I struggle with balance . Vision impairment and vertigo and a constand ringing in my ears that would drive any sane person not so sane. I get anger from depression due to frustration with inability to keep relationships or gainful employment. Due to inability to speak on the spot off the top of my head and have normal interactions like everyone else. I have to sit and take time to use voice.text to write it down to make sense to people
I draw blanks. And have brain zaps(possible a side effect from several years of misdiagnosis and prescribed serotonin rhubtake Inhibitor )
My memory loss is the least of my concerns and still a major problem for me still.

I had alot going for me. A family. With children who were taken away and never get to see their father. Ive been stuck in this loop misunderstood and no way to figure it out until I started writing this down and seeking help with it . i worked hard to take care of myself without asking for handouts. Just to be stuck on the streets.

I'm sober (maintaining for 2 years)

My brother's died in the last 2 years. 1 of suicide (42) 2022.
1 of covid. At (34) 2023
They were my only friends I could talk to or lean on.

I just don't want to lose my truck and or my life. So i stay the course and keep faith in a better place.


I have been forced and living homeless. Fortunate for opportunities when the come.

Greatful fully for this life . To those no longer with us.

Those still trying to stay afloat.

Keep on keeping on my brothers and sisters!!!❤ 🧠

My psychiatrist just drugged me for my behavioral problem due to a traumatic brain injury.

My mom suffered from hypoxia and brain injury happened, she’s been in the ICU for 35d now and unknown when will she be able, pray for her to Hopefully recover soon ♥️

Hit my head on concrete while wrestling with friends outside at age 17. I was out for 20 minutes with seizures and I don’t remember any of it, just first hand accounts. It was in 2014 so it’s almost been 11 years. I’ve ruined a lot of relationships and battle with aggression and gambling addiction. Somehow I still have a house and a job but everyday gets harder. Hard to get sleep and hard to feel loved

Including stroke, recovery comes just as difficult and healing advice works for both.

Y'all are going to give back what you stole from me and you're going to prison for paying Kid Rock to take me out for the Illuminati Freemasons Epstein Network

My daughter is in minimally conscious state for 5 months. She has anoxic brain injury, she was lack of oxygen for 9 minutes. When I touch her she feels it, she opens eyes, gaze them, she hears, she can moves limbs but she doesn't follow any command, she is out consciousness. What will happen? Will she regain consciousness? Can she awake? Please share your history about anoxic brain injury.

Yes I had a TBI it’s sad all I went through happy I’m still here. Winter time takes me down and really sad.

Please explain high dose ketamine therapy brain damage

Let brain damaged people have what ever everyone else has it is sad to be a brain damaged person myself I was born with brain damage and the is no healing for brain damage either this world is cold towards us this world really really hates us people with brain damage

Keep the brain damage out of group homes and give us a home stop making us outkasts .world you need to love us

Nothing “mild” about mTBI…

My brain was recovered via BrainPaint neurofeedback by “leaps n bounds.” Better than before injury. Injured 2008. Healed 2014.💥🕊️

Dont ever ever ever take acid/lsd or smoke marijuana ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤not good at all 😢

I was a passenger in a car, my friend driving made an illegal u turn and pulled out in front of a car traveling 70mph. The guy that hit us hit his brakes roughly 10ft before impact. My friend driving took the main hit, the rear view mirror went through my forehead, I was in a forced coma for 2 weeks. When the swelling went down, they woke me up. To this day, I only remember certain bits and pieces of my life prior. I buried my mom a year later and had barely any memories of her life with me. To this day, I'll never forget the sound of the helicopter when it arrived. I studder when I get excited, I have 86d 95% of my friendships because I don't know them anymore. This has been the single incident in my life that has completely changed the outcome of where I am.

My father had a subdural hematoma he was struggling and i lost all the hope but in prayed and prayed to Jesus,it was a miracle he is normal and fit never give up on someone who is having this,be with them and care for them and pray alottty

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I don’t understand how a writer would ever get writer’s block, so-called. My problem is having too much and being unable to get it down.

I don’t know how I got my tbi my mom doesn’t know, but I was diagnosed in 2019 I feel like my symptoms are getting worse. I hope it’s nothing serious. I feel so alone suffering with my symptoms, I’m exausted.

I am in this fight everyday 💪 tbi over a year ago. My emotions and brain fog take constant mindfulness and so much time thinking. I know I will improve, I believe it!

The worst is when FAMILY refuses to accept the fact that now and forever you are DIFFERENT

I was in a single motor vehicle accident a year and a half ago and it left me with a broken kneck and a completely crushed in skull cap which is why I have a tbi and it causes me not to be able to speak my soft palette is completely paralyzed

There’s No such thing as a MILD TBI!

I got in a accident this year now I’m able to talk memory is terrible and thinking is terrible everyone is an adult even my kids so there’s nice and instantly fighting nothing in between this life is shitty if it wasn’t for my kids I wouldn’t want to be here

2 years later I am able to eat in my own, walking, talking without great trouble. I do it my own way but it’s working. There are issues that I can work around but others I cannot. I toe walk in my right foot. Slut words and forget where things are while driving. My vision has come back 70% my memory is about 50% but this is a huge leap and way beyond where I was. Recovery is possible you just cannot give up every little thing should be celebrated and use the emotions to motivate yourself when it doesnt happen as fast as you’d like.