Do I Have a Brain Injury? Symptom Discovery Quiz

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i cant remember anything

I was in a car accident last year but after I thought I was healed and now it been almost a year and i have been progressively getting worse I have pretty much all of those on that list of questions should I seek medical help

My dad stomped on the head when I was I think 12 -11 and ever sense then I've kinda had these symptoms and by kinda I mean it´s a fact of life now

WHY am I being refused treatment after 10 or more untreated t.b.i.'s???

10 years ago I suffered a broken body due to a car accident . Apparently I am suffering from an undiagnosed abi as I suffer from almost everything listed. I am glad to know I am not crazy though that is a relief . But I wish the few people left in my life would stop calling me that once I am triggered . It feels like I share my mind with a maniac and I live in fear of him coming out . I have had to set rules to prevent his appearance but its never enough because people cant see my brains broken . I am tired of crying for death because there isnt a moment where my body or a misunderstanding is causing some sort of anquish . My biggest fear is loosing my licence over it if I do seek help. Or things progressing and I no longer can live on my own . As I have no one to be able to get myself around . I feel so lost and dont know where to turn for support . I am so tired of overwhelming any one I let in because I need so much help and there are so many rules to follow to prevent any madness from slipping out . The other side is I am tired of loosing my life always searching for the things I need or crying over why people cause extra difficulties instead of be compassionate patient and just help .

I played football growing up and through college. 13 years total and had so many concussions I could not even guess the number. "Coach I saw stars. Shake it offf kid and go back in. Got it coach....." "Lead with the head" is what I was told. Im scared shitless because I literally have every symptom. Wife doesn't believe in CTE says I have mental issues. Older I get the worse I am. Don't like social situations. Anger explosive at times but don't act. Addiction switch all the time is now on. Thankfully realize alcohol is my kryptonite and haven't drunk in 8 years but anxiety, depression, forgetting where I put anything gets worse every day. Daily thoughts that I want to die but to chicken shit to do it. Noone knows what it is like in my skull and the more I try to talk about it it seems people shy away. I honestly hate my life and do not know what to do. I cannot live like this much longer. Already listed for donating my brain post-death. Zero ambition. Zero drive. I am a mental shell of a person and what I used to be. 52 years old and I want to take a bridge abutment doing 80. already made decision someone pulls in front of me, crosses over in my lane, I am not stopping. Hopefully head on so it goes quick.....

I have a hypoxic brain injury. The anger is unfortunately Common. As well as so many other problems. Sorry to hear your in such a bad place! Somehow I’ve had to learn how to work around or just accept problems and be glad I don’t suffer from a more miserable condition

im a 20 year old male that got into an atv accident and i was a perfectly healthy kid always shy but also outgoing and as the years have passed in the last 4 years of the accident i can feel my mental health is out of check from what it use to be i am on the brink of letting it all go. i find a drive than i give up on it the next day like a constant 50\50 in my brain i want to do good things but i cant because i cant let myself anymore its almost easier to let my brain fry. i have been having small seizures when drinking too much and im the exact same way as you are feeling so just so you know you are not alone in this were all people here on this page that want to do good and just need help. i dont know if any of this made any sense at all but im here too man so maybe just try to live for now. this life is all that we all have nobody is any diffrent so take care of youself or at least try on the days that you feel like you can. thats what im trying to do. definitly still going to a doctor. stay safe Frank were all here

Frank, Oh no. Don't give up on your life! It sounds like you should get a complete medical exam and next get a professional to talk to. Sometimes the people closest to us are in denial and want to be there. They cannot deal with the person they love most not being as healthy as they want them to be. DAMN youth Football!! I have had 5 total concussions myself. Some in childhood and 2 where I lost consciousness. I used to be the best speller in the universe, now I look things up. I can't remember what I said or did not say to people. I know I am repeating conversations. I have really no motivation and I need to have it. I forget where things are, where I put them, etc. My dad, grandmother, and both aunts had Dementia/Altzheimer's. I just trurned 64 and it is scary. I am professionally employed and do well in my job but I forget things sometimes from minute to minute. Please take care of you!! I am not an expert at all but I feel for you and hope you will find the strength to seek out what you most need. God bless you!

I am feeling your pain brother, I HATE MYSELF so much!!! And argue with EVERYONE and am just miserable. Why am I still alive??? I also feel your weakness about wanting to end our lives but just rather not make a mess, and kinda rather stick around and ride this storm of a life out. I too have had many self inflicted head injuries from football to martial arts to snowboarding accidents to combat exposure and now this is what I'm left with, JUST PURE MISERY!!! I don't wish this emotional and mental pain on my worst enemy. My ONLY advice that soothes my brain is reading and digesting the Bible. I've tried to indulge myself with other faiths and beliefs like hinduism, budda, islam, and other spiritual uplifting methods but NOTHING has captivated MY attention like the King James version Bible. I've tried to read other versions but KJV captivates my FULL attention and understanding for WHY I AM HERE STILL. I do not encourage organized religion in ANYWAY but so far the Bible is keeping me alive. Luke 4:18. I also encourage going out to the wilderness and YELLING at the top of your lungs and just letting out the RAGE. I pulled muscles and think I broke some ribs recently from me yelling, chanting and crying so hard for God to leave me alone and stop encouraging me to live and showing me his love and compassion. I've tried pretty much most and every medication and or controlled mind altering substance to help with this condition and NOTHING has stuck to help me be comfortable and alleviate the pain. Last night I did some more research and I just found a website linking Ketamin treatment and I filled out a consultation and waiting to talk to someone. I'm looking forward to feel anything except how I've been feeling for the past 20 years. I did electroconvulsive therapy for a few weeks in 2017 and I felt great but I think it was more the trip on anaesthesia and waking up feeling so rejuvenated. So pretty much all I can say is DON'T GIVE UP, there is a reason YOU and I and EVERYONE, all 8 billion of US are on this earth. WE ALL have a purpose, NO MATTER what we believe. We are made of stardust and formed out of clay but by the hands of God. :))

Frank, You are my twin! Played college ball also. Fullback in high school and lead with the head for 3 years. I am to the point where I can’t go on like this. My wife is leaving because she can’t put up with me anymore. I just feel brain dead.

So I'm 19 now, and sometimes it's just hard for me to function as a human being sometimes. I suffer from a lot of this stuff, i.e. anxiety, impulsive anger, speech problems, decision making, etc. and it just sucks. I was abused when I was younger, and I feel like I've had more than one untreated concussion in my life. I got into a fight with my brother a year or two ago and I'm sure I suffered one then, since I had my face kicked into the carpet lmao. I had ONE confirmed concussion at school, since I was hit square in the face with a volleyball and started to stutter like Drew Lynch. After the ER trip was when I realized that I've had things like this happen to me before, but not on that scale of severity. I felt like my brain was punishing me because I'm an idiot. I can't remember anything for sh*t and I get bashed all the time because of it. All my life I thought that I was just stupid, even though I tried so hard to focus and just do good in general.

Childhood trauma, repetitive head injuries, strangled unconscious, head fracture, and drowning attempt.

After major hypoxic brain when died and resuscitated dead 20 mins according to the paramedic remet during asthma. injury Recently remembered during roller-coaster switching migraines (Blackout and confusional between 5 hours and two days.) Unable to spell or handwrite sence. Text only way. Talking is manic babbling usually. Or dissociate slurring, falling talking rubbish as if drunk. Trouble function. Time blackouts. Worse since and chronic confusional migraine and fatigue.

Not well, everything worse since can't access treatment from NHS as I have a diagnosis of conversion disorder and cptsd. Switching personality during black outs now aware, not living with ghosts hiding moving stuff. Hearing voices talk is did personalities not God, sprits or demons. Think brain anoxic injury worsened previous symptoms of Brain injury and mental health. Mood stabilizers cause dementia-like symptoms, stop existing. Worse than dead.

Hi...erm, I literally have every single symptom in this list, I am now freaking out, but I don't think the UK health system will take me seriously, but its getting worse, I feel like I'm days away from some sort of breaking point physically

Me too but in oz

Should I be worried if I can't find the right word to put in my sentence when writing after getting hit in the head by a volleyball (no symptoms rn)?

Hi me too volleyball hurt very much
Cant think straight and fell into a lake

Okay hi so I also have nearly every symptom and I think there are things my parents haven’t told me about my childhood because they were pretty neglectful at times and I remember my dad telling me once he caught the last glimpse of me slipping in between an in ground pool and the seasonal pool cover when I was only 3 so I was close to drowning and was lucky to be spotted... that along with a very rough and physically aggressive group of siblings (and parents who left us unattended ) I think I may possibly have some minor brain damage without ever really knowing but still knowing there was something wrong with me (I’m 25 now and for the longest time I have just been thinking I have high functioning autism ) but yeah I check off on almost everything here and I wish I knew what was wrong with me bc I have been rather isolated, confused, aggressive, moody, forgetful and impulsive my entire life despite me being charismatic and bright in some ways too but I’m coming to the point in my life where I’m becoming more affected by my possible unknown injuries:( anyone else not sure if something more happened to them to cause such injuries as a kid without your caretakers telling you fully? Help :(

Hello, I am a 14 year old from New Berlin WI. I play 2 sports which are football and basketball, and constantly after a game or under pressure I have emotional breakouts and have difficulty handling my anger and I am constantly criticized by teammates and others because MAYBE they are worried about my mental health or something. I do recall an incident(s) that may have been a factor in this situation. I was always hit in the head in football, some were mild and some were minor. but recently I have been having tantrums and anger breakouts, this has been going on for the past year. And I have been continuing to play sports has a relief route but I don't know if it's a good choice by now. also I have been very forgetful too, like when I go places with friends and when I do homework I tend to forget things then it escalates into emotional breakdowns. So if any doctor or medical professional can respond to this, I would highly appreciate it...

Hi I’m not a MD but I was reading your text and I would definitely say you at least need to tell your parents and ask to be seen by a Doctor, weather it’s related to past head Injury or not , a good MD can help . God Bless you

Hello,

I went through a period of my life with a lot of stress, like chronic stress to the point where I would wake up at night and both arms would be in the air with fists clenched involuntarily. Now I struggle with things like constantly asking the same questions like I haven't had the conversation before and close people in my life like family and friends say "you keep asking the same questions when you know the answer to it". Could my brain have been damage from this period of extreme stress?

When I was roughly 9 years old I was being pulled down a large hill by a bike, I was on skates and my friend turned a corner quickly at the bottom my forward momentum wouldn't let me turn and I was going full speed.

I woke up on a hospital bed, only to find out I was never sleeping, I was talking nonsense and couldn't remember my name or where I was. I apparently went head first full speed into a curb.

I remember right before the crash but not the events in the 3 hours afterwards. When I returned to school after the summer I absolutely noticed a difference in my ability to comprehensively read, and do simple math.

When I was 15 I suffered another concussion with major memory loss, like months of my life were totally just gone. I didn't believe the doctor because I thought it was July but he told me it was October. I remember being really mad and recalling picture perfect what I had done just days prior. It was surreal when he made me look out of a window to see the Fall leaves on the trees. He had my mom bring in my Halloween costume to try and trigger my memory and it was like the memory of a dream.. like I recognized it but only sort of.

My grades drastically changed in school and I started to become worse and worse in social situations.

As I've gotten older my problems have only gotten worse, I lose track of time, I forget my address, I don't remember birthdays of my kids, I forget what people just told me.

My jobs have suffered from my problems, and I recently changed jobs to a high paying career. They sent me to school for training and I would read a page, and read it again and again just trying to get it to stick, but I was still getting answers wrong.

I had another employee come with me to teach me how to repair a machine and I watched him the entire time. Here I am two weeks later and I don't even know where to start on it.

I don't even feel like the same person, I know there is no cure for CTE and it seems like a death sentence. I'm now 40 years old and I've been hiding it and dealing with it in my own way...but I feel helpless knowing there is no solution and it will only get worse.

I have to say reading these stories about others helps knowing I'm not alone in this..but I worry for my future and my kids. And with no foreseeable cure, I totally get people's depression. It's a bad feeling knowing I hate what I've become... and it'll only get worse.

I hope research gets funded and nobody else has to go through this slow degrading process. I am being honest here when I say my kids are the only thing keeping me going.

I'm 50 now, was beat in the head as a kid. Two major head injuries. Yes lucky I can walk. I'll tell you I really thought I was alone my whole life.
The worst is loosing everything and wondering why did I do that if you can even remember anything. The equilibrium issue at my age and the extremity issues, compounded that I have been able to hold down a job since I stopped doing what I was doing before. No treatment no help no disability no nothing. with what mental capacity I still got left I worry about other people in the world that are just lost......

I was beat about my head and knocked unconscious around age 5, my mother kept me out of school for a week while the bruises to my face and ears healed but no doctor... I am in my 60's now and have a myriad of issues listed above, am consumed with wanting to die. I pray for my death daily, suiside is not an option, but I hope someone will murder me and put me out of my misery.

I never found anywhere to indentify U til I got online here, i just started to read this & then went finally your not alone, I know this sounds strange but thankyou, I hope your find some release in life as I feel like this very often. Dominica

You’re amazing and deserve life. We all do. I know how it feels to not want to be here. I have felt that way for 20 years. This year I found happiness. In myself, others, Earth itself. You’re worth more than you know <3

Thanks, I needed this.

Im 51 .. I've had nine concussions... I played hockey for 23 years and I can to this day still remember the last one as if it was yesterday.. Center Ice Collision
Which I ain't got blindsided
Unlike now back in the day very little was known about this disease
As well as another one at a pickup game where I literally was knocked out.. got up went to the bench and 3 hours later I was home but did not remember how I got home or anything
On top of this when I was 6 I was in the hospital for two months due to a fall from monkey bars at my elementary school hitting my head asphalt
I've dealt with several years of depression anger issues
now I'm to the point where I can't even remember where my keys are and I just set them down
I try to have conversations with people I forget their names though I've known them awhile.. I have trouble communicating words that are my head don't come out my mouth
With the depression.
I get in moods where I don't want to be around people now extreme anxiety.. stress at work tends to affect me more than it ever has
I was married and my wife couldn't deal with it so she took my kid and left
I have seen psychiatrist and therapist
Which for me was no help because all they wanted to do was put me on pills
I've been put on medications that make me feel like a zombie
The only thing that I do now is I use CBD.. it helps a lot with anxiety
Yes I felt that I've been going through this all alone
family doesn't understand it.. I'm kind of looked at as the family screw up
At an early age I turn to alcohol the kind of help me cope
Which in its own right cause me a bunch of more problems no driver's license loss of a good living wage
Thank God for this day I am sober
The best way I could put this at times it feels like someone else is driving a car that I'm in cuz I have no control
And that scares me to death
So for anybody who's out there you are not alone
I am lucky enough to have several good friends and a good woman in my life.. who is extremely patient and understands
If not for that I don't know where I would be

I had a brain aneurysm 34 years ago and still suffer from 90% of these problems. And I only 56 years old.

How the freaking heck am I supposed to sit here and read all that mess? I’d there like a short version I can take. I swear it be easier to cut out my brain and let u look at it!

I know the feeling it not nice to read them all , I had to stop as I dont no what I'm reading them for as there no points or something to click :(

Sorry I am damaged too

If you want to know if you are brain damaged then read it. Also I think being impatient is one of the symptoms and I got bored after a minute or so and so did you lol

i hit y head really hard and the docter said i have broken bones

This sounds just like me. I have never seen a doctor for it because I thought it was normal. I had meningitis and septaemia as a kid, as well as being abused, I was always really clumsy and hitting my head on the play ground or during PE (a softball and basketball, falling off a jungle gym and hitting me head and losing time, a teether ball, a fence, passing out in High school and hitting my head on the ground.). My family never took me to the doctors for anything after like 5 years old. Makes me wonder if I should get my head checked out.

Oh my god you all sound like me. I have either been knocked unconscious or had a massive bang dozens of tim

I’m 40 and I exhibit almost all of these behaviors and difficulties. I have had around 16 concussions and class 2 TBIs.

I am not the same person anymore, have regressed more and more and my symptoms become more and more severe. I am so impulsive angry and agitated always. I am aggressive and make bad decisions and cannot do basic things without help. I am more and more clumsy and have dementia and mania and psychotic episodes. I feel like someone else is driving the majority of the time. My personality has completely changed.

I have been placed on more and more and stronger medicine and nothing seems to work. I realize I don’t have much time and my faith in God has near eroded. I cannot maintain friendships or any relationships and feel like a burden on everyone and have no dignity left at all. I engage in dangerous behaviors and also can’t hold my bladder or bowels sometimes. I want to commit suicide but am scared to die bc I think God is angry with me. I don’t know how much more I can take.

Hey Jeremiah. I realize it is 9 months in the future, but thought maybe you still might get this message and read it. And if happen upon this, could you mind messaging me back or emailing me to let me know you're okay? Otherwise, I'll worry.
I have the same suicidal thoughts, often, so I know where you are and I hope I just wanted you to know that at least 1 person (probably thousands more) understands what you are talking about. My standard of life has been steadily dropping the past 6 or 7 years. I have several chronic illnesses, and severe chronic pain. And doctors keep lowering pain dosage while stopping to look into any research that might help me. I know it sucks, and I hope that you have one person in your life you can lean on and will support you unconditionally. As long as you have one, you'll be okay. I only have one' I've lost all my friends over the years, because I'm basically a recluse and gradually lost touch with all my friends. Which sucks, but that's life I get that life moves on, but it's hard. I hope you're doing better, now in 2020.

Oh dear you are not alone, and suicide is not an option for you or me. I have had two TBI's and about 17 concussions, I am almost 60, my 2 TBI's was left frontal lobe and most of my concussions were to the top and back of my head, I am the one who is guilty of giving my self my may concussions, had another last week pretty bad, racked the top of my head and felt my neck accordion, I actually think I heard it, I just knew I had broken my neck, thank God I didn't. At this point my daughter has threatened to dis own me. Now I am really scared, I don't want to be homelessness. Something I fear the most.

I'm so sorry to hear that you are going through this. I know how you feel and I feel helpless because I can't do anything to make you feel better.
I will share with you a couple of things that help me make it through the day. I listen to classical music. I watch a TV show or movie that makes me laugh. And I play solitaire with actual cards. Not on the computer.
I think of a happy thought and write it down each day.
I try to help someone else with something every week.
The goal is to train your brain to be positive and keeping your focus on being productive by helping others.
It sounds so simple for others, but for people like you and I, it's not easy to reprogram your brain at our age.
Anything negative and hurtful to yourself and others is your brain lying to you. How does that feel that your brain is lying to you? Well, for me....it makes me really ticked off. It made me so mad and I had nothing but to train myself to be happy and healthy with positive things in my life. One day at a time.
Praying for everyone who battles this everyday.

My friend...You and I are rowing the very same boat.
One day at a time and trust in Jehovah.

I agree Prayer and Torah are our Help. I trust God for deliverance and healing. Love to you all. I take a supplement, but can not always afford it, Grace to those with this 'issue'. Jesus is my helper and healer. I hope you find grace in your times of trouble.

yes, Jesus is our saviour and would do anything to help us so pray, only people who trust in God have the ability to pray in desperate times

If you are still kicking and screaming, I just want you to know...I believe you. I empathize with you. It is not easy! I will pray with/for you.

Don’t give up. You haven’t yet, and something tells me you know you can do this. Surround yourself with a supportive group of friends and family. It’s about realizing you’re not alone and you don’t owe anybody anything. Just breathe and simplify your thoughts. It sounds like you have a cascade of thoughts that are hard to control. Start there, thought control, seek help from the community. Get some hobbies that allow you to visualize something and then achieve it. I believe in you. I’m right there with you.

I hit the front side of my head 3 times as a kid. The last one was when riding a bike and fell on my head and landed on the pavement. I have difficulty concentrating and processing conversations.

yep, I have brain damage

I have hit head many times and I have trouble remembering things and sleeping I have many of this symptoms and now I am worried.

tell me about it

I have had several bad falls, where I hit my head at different times in my life.

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