Undiagnosed head trauma may be the underlying cause of many of the learning disabilities and other mental illnesses that are characterized by thinking problems (what professionals often refer to as “cognitive deficits”). So says a new study that the Wall Street Journal reported on today.
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I fell from the monkey bars and landed face first when I was 7 and lost consciousness briefly and broke my nose. I have often wondered if this could be the cause of my diagnosed ADHD, however I had reports of “daydreaming” in my report card before the incident. Would an MRI or such be covered by insurance if one had a brain injury in the past?
I fell down a flight of celler steps at the age of 4 and had serious injurys. I now have borderline personallity disorder and schizophrenia. I have always wondered if my accident could have caused my mental illnesses.
I too fell from the monkey bars and landed on my head now I am sofa king we todd ed. I wonder if this is why I studder and become wordless around pretty girls.
no you that’s not the reason you become wordless aroud pretty girls its just that you get scared lol.
I suffered a TBI as a result of anethesia and surgery. I started out with a stutter in my speech and an echo like sound going through my head whenever someone spoke to me. I also had nightmares, and began battling with profanity ( a problem I did not have before the accident.) I have trouble focusing and remembering things. Overall I am healing but the process is slow
At 6,14 and 23 I suffered moderate to substantial head injuries on three seperate occassions. A metal table leg to the head, head through a car window and a sledding(ice) accident. I lost consciousness briefly with each incident. No tests(CT scan, MRI,etc.) were ever performed. I began having major emotional, social and mental problems since 14 which have progressively gotten worse over the years. Now at 29 I’ve been diagnosed with bi-polar disorder, but I believe deeply that either the diagnoses is inaccurate or I also have suffered a head/brain injury. How easy/hard would it be now years later to request a referral for a CT scan and/or an MRI? I need to find out what’s going on up there.
No offense to all those seeking answers because I think everyone should know what they suffer from, but if you have mental illness it is a hell of a lot cheaper to switch around drugs for a while and see what works than to get a scan, say “oh ok”, and still jump around trying to find what works.
Similar steps are involved in learning to live with brain injury or mental illness. Initially it helps you understand ‘what’s happening to me,’ but in the end, it just takes work but you can slowly adjust and live more functionally.
I need help from a doctor that wants a challenge. I have had approx. six injuries in a bit over a year. The doctors don’t believe me and think that none of these injuries could happen to one person. They are writing me off as a nut job and I am physically ill with multiple , severe, symptoms. I need to find out how one goes about finding a doctor that will believe you and stop trying to say it is all in your head to entrap you into the word of psychiatry due to their own inability to diagnose you. I find mental illness real and needs to be treated but I am not mentally ill. I actually have been injured and my symptoms are many and very diverse and actually very serious. Once one doctor says it is in your head then it is in your records and then the other doctors follow suit. If I get asked one more time if I am seeing a psychiatrist I think I will explode ! I need help from the best of the best doctors because my symptoms are so out of the box. I need a doctor that believes me. They cannot diagnose you if they don’t even believe you as to the trauma and injuries that you have sustained. If there is one person that would care and try to get to the bottom of my Physical issues I would be forever grateful. My quality of life is Gone ! Why do they not like a challenge instead just brush you off as a mental case? I am a kind caring good person and would never complain if this was not real. Gosh I need a good team of doctors interested in finding out what is happening to my body. Good Luck To All.
Aunties Sissies …. I had a hard time connecting my mental illness with my head injury (horse + car + asphalt = I loose) I finally went to a neuologist when my dentist sent me to one for TMJ and I told him about my accident and he asked me about the xray result and I told him it was 25 yrs ago and I was unconcious for almost 2 weeks and only 14 so I had no idea what the results were. He requested a new MRI and I found out that the damage was extensive and was the cause of many of my problems. Where the damage is is a direct reason for most of my emotional and memory disorders. I recomend highly that you call a neuology center or a pain/physical clinic. They have also found that alot of pain and physical problems are associated with mental and TBI.
Good luck I hope you find a Dr. like I did.
WOW! i hear you – we’re in the same position, my husband has so many hits, we can’t find the history for them all, then suddenly he does something so out of character, he ends up in trouble, and now finding a doctor to put it all together, its impossible. we keep getting sent back to our family Dr.
When i was a little girl i feel off a bike a hit my head really hard. My mom told me that after my behavior changed. Im always daydreaming. I got bad into drugs when i was in my teens, and now im 24 and have add. Is their anything i can do besides takes these horrible syke meds?
I had several head injuries growing up from being bucked off the back of a horse and landing on my head, to car accidents, to a few beatings. I began developing personality disorders and severe headaches as a teen and the BPD finally came to a peak in my late 30s. Unable to think choices thru, impulsive actions, intrusive thoughts, homicidal/suicidal tendencies, all fit my life. No stability until I had help. I was a straight A student and all sports star until the accidents and injuries. Now I cant even be trusted alone with people.
I suffered a brain hemmorage and hydrocephalus at birth, and have suffered from depression and a few symptoms that suggest schizophrenia for as far back as I can remember. Do the two seem connected at all?
I had a fall to the head as I was having a seizue
This was in 1974 I had blood clot on the left side of the brian. About a year after I was getting depressed often, got some help with therapy, well this lasted for many years. I also started to drink often. After many years of drinking, I decided not to drink anymore, the drinks were not working any more. This all happened in 2005 when I was put in the pys ward, durning this periold I found out I has bi-plor cognive disorder manjor depression epepic and so on. It took all these years for the answers to my problems was the alohol covered my mental health for many years, must realized that in 1974 there was not the knowlege as today. This has help me to understand why I did the things I did. This shows that TBI and mental health is a part of each other Thanks
In 5th grade i ran into a stationary airplane propeller. I was a great student in a supportive family with great friends before the incident. since then i have gotten mostly F’s and was diagnosed with ADD 5 years later. I was a happy laughing kid before who everyone liked. since that incident i have had a flat and blunted affect and lost all my friends (even the ones who i went to the airshow with). i have not made one friend since then and im 19.
Nobody believes me that the airplane propellor caused any of this and my parents dont believe i have ADD (because i DIDN’T have ADD as a child)
my dad just says “there was a time when you were a nice boy so i know you don’t have a psychiatric illness, you’re just a professional asshole”
just doesn’t get it….
i even remember never being late to school and never thinking of not doing homework. i was late 80% of the time in middle, high school and 1 semester of college
so, about a year and a half ago, my girlfriend suffered severe head trauma when she was kicked in the eye, she went through surgeries, and reconstructive surgeries and they “fixed her up”, however, they did give her too high of a doage of a pain reliever drug, which didnt do anything other then immobilize her. however, soon thereafter, she fell into a deep depression, and has severe autophobia, as well as massive headaches, which last for more then a week each, and nearly cripple her, no medicines seem to make the headaches go away, and she also seems to be developing symptoms of some new thing, random bouts of rage and then deep sadness, shes becoming depressed again, and she never had any of these problems before she was kicked in the eye, shes gone in for MRIs and other scans, but nothing has been found to be out of order, ive been thinking this could all be a problem of some combined issues, the overdose of pain relievers (very high strength) and what may have been a faulty surgery as well as the heavy head trauma, any ideas?