Do I Have a Brain Injury? Symptom Discovery Quiz

Can brain damage be triggered by mental things? I went through a months long traumatic episode 2 years ago and there was a point I reached where my brain felt physically fried, and all of these issues have slowly appeared since

I’m 13 and have been have received slightly more head trauma then the average joe for my age. I had the back of my head slammed into tile when I got knocked off my feet last year and I have had more and more trouble paying attention and remembering things, I feel as if my social interactions have gotten worse as I have lost friends, maybe because I lost my social awareness. I have become less interested in sports and my reaction time doesn’t feel as good. Is there a way I can work to fix this? I haven’t gotten a concussion or been in a coma. I hit my head pretty hard when I was 3 and I don’t want to have my symptoms get worse. I wanna get back to full health and be normal again. I feel stupid and like I can’t do anything right, I have headaches where I hit my head last year and I felt sick in my stomach today. I have a hard time sleeping and I overthink everything to tje point where I cant sleep. It’s like having a person talking to you so you only fall asleep from Exhaustion. I feel like my behaviour is getting worse, I may have slight autism and I take meds for my ADD. My hand writing has also gotting worse and I can’t do different things with each hand unless they are in sink. I sometimes have repated thoughts that are just 1 word that I just think up for no reason. I get shakes in my legs sometimes and I feel like my joints are weak. I haven’t had this checked or treated. Should I go to the doctor? Please tell me. I don’t want it to get worse and I hope to stop or even reverse any damage that might be there. Please give me advice. Thanks.

great quiz .. thanks for this .. its hard having a brain injury as no one else can see it. finally feel not crazy. have been beat up by docs over 4 yrs.

i took alot of drugs, just random pills bought from highschoolers and had started having seizures and now i feel slow in my brain and motor skills. everything is harder. im barely functioning. my mom wont take me to doctor, she doesn't know abt the drugs she thinks its stress.. like ok sure i had 4 seizures in an hour

I started having simple and complex partial seizures when I was about 14. I didn’t know what was happening so I kept it to myself until I had my first grand-mal at 19. I sadly was young and stupid, so I didn’t see a neurologist because I couldn’t afford it.

I was a skater/rollerblader growing up and had a few concussions from that. Since then I’ve had multiple severe grand-mal seizures where my head slammed into pavement, as well as in the shower of faucets. After years of different medications I’ve finally been able to get things under control these past 2 years.

With all the concussions added up over the years I’ve started noticing a lot of strange symptoms. After learning about CTE from football players and MMA fighters I started putting the pieces together.

I’m 30 now and have years where I only have brief memories. I’m a guitarist and forget songs within a day of learning them, as well as old songs I’ve played for years. I can’t even remember my families birthdays anymore. I even struggle to play video games because I need full immersion with no outside interference.

Learning about CTE really opened a door for me. I had no idea what was going on and I was very angry because I thought I was going insane.

All I can say is if you have any suspicion of seizures be sure to see a neurologist immediately. It will save you years of mental anguish.

I can relate to all the quiz questions, I grew up with a abusive alcoholic father and my whole life up to 18 years old my father was abusive, always getting hit in my head ,whatever he had in his hands at the time, one of the worst was when living on a farm there was always work to be done, I was helping my father dig a ditch and I didn't have enough dirt on my shovel and he hit me across the head with the shovel because my shovel was not full...many stories I have like that, now at 57 years old I really do feel like I'm losing my mind.

SOMETIMES AT NIGHT MY MIND WILL GET DRIFTY GOING BACK AND FORTH IN ITS SPACE LOL SCARIEST SH!T EVER I DONT KNOW IF ITS NORMAL TO EVERYONE

I have been having grand mal sezuize's for 10+years now have had severe headaches pressure in head like my brain going to pop out of my skull 7yrs ago found cyst in brain never followed up has gotten so bad I bang my head severely during sezuize's or in manic States pain is un real

I was suffocated in a physical abuse two and a half years ago for 1 minute, and because of that i have a very uncomfortable feeling of my larynx rubbing in my trachea every time i swallow and iam not taking my full breath, afterwards serval consequences occured: ( depression, anxiety, aggression, memory loss, poor concentration, bad headaches, dizziness, fatigue, lightheadness, acidity, hoarseness, abnormal movement of the larynx, short slow breathing, difficulty swallowing, can't burp nor yaw, cold pale skin, low blood pressure, numbness with coldness in brain and limbs, bending back as a result of my neck moving forward with time as a desperate breathing attempt ), I went to see a doctor three days after what happened and gave all the information but still didn't get dealt with and until now i didn't, so i started to underestimate too considering my parent's ignorance of how i am fine, my brain wasn't affected and that the reason i started to fail exams is that iam a disappointment.

I had an abnormal childhood, at 14 I had to basically chase off people in the surrounding deep woods and disregarded our hilltop 20 acres, fenced, with no neighbors. I had to get into tree to tree gunfights to chase thugs off, once having a bullet skip off the back of my skull. I vaguely recall a dead partial tree top fall and hit me on the head, knocking me out. Wanting to know how to survive anything like my teens again, I joined the Marines, then Navy SpecOps then the Army until I got a medical during that time. I have a left leg knee to foot mostly titanium inside and numb. I lost my left testicle and a blown left eardrum and a TBI. I later had a deer/car accident where the seatbelt failed and I broke my face-TBI #2 to my memory. I worked 2 prisons and 2 jails, at least one other TBI, ultimately leading to my first 2 week long migraine, driving my regular great BP to 200/190 and I spurted blood out my nose and mouth and had all the symptoms of a stroke for 3 months until I recovered by will power. I became a Government Security Contractor and then Google patrol security. One night a large truck rear ended me explosively at 85+mph 18 September 2009 at 0015 hrs. I instantly had ringing ears, head pain and broke my eye socket and temple bone and sinus as my face repeatedly bounced off the steering wheel. I have had scores of tests and deep needles, trigeminal nerve damage, and, according to my fifth neurologist I have ''every type migraine and headache known to man.'' I have these NONSTOP! Even at present with morphine er 60mg 3x daily, oxycodone, Lyrica, antidepressants x2, muscle relaxants, valium, ointment of ketamine, lidocaine and gabapentin for my damaged neck vertebrae and side trigeminal nerves that are like chewed up dog toys now! I have to daily find a reason to continue. At best I get to a 7/10 pain, and I am sliding downward. I hope to at least get my morphine upped to 75mg-(60+15mg), every 6 hours or the new dilaudid injectables my pharmacist told me about. I actually even have migraines AND Cluster headaches simultaneously lately! Dilaudid IVs are the only things that have ever stopped the pain for a day, with a willing ER, but now a days they treat you like a junkie from behind their dumpsters outside! I have only one doc, an hour away, with enough integrity to medicate me, knowing that with the new ridiculous guidelines I still remain in pain. This is sad, because near Charleston, South Carolina I am surrounded by hospitals and doctors! South Carolina has no true pain center treatment centers except the ''drive thru shot clinics!'' When I eventually wear down, or maybe get CTE, I imagine nothing will change. The DEA is the new Gestapo. Peace. Mike

I went through a lot of child abuse trama- my dad once tripped me and I hit the back of my head on the dining room table- and my mother threw me into walls and I remember always hitting my head- one on the wall- then the dog crate and then the floor. But I have most if not all of these symptoms- it’s hard for me to read

could i have a head injury and not know?? like could my family keep it from me ?

Hi I was hit by a car when was 7 years old and Ave a metal plate in my head on the right side at the front and wa last scanned when was 9.i am now 38.but I'm getting alot of headaches. In forgetting alot of things ever day.wers my plate is it some times feels like bloods running in my head.my doctor wont take on what I'm telling him