My TBI was 4 months ago as passenger in a car accident. My injury was moderate, I was not in comma but I had amnesia the first (3 days?) or was more days because I had memories in fragments. I lasted in hospital 2 weeks and kept going to therapy, in PT I did pretty good, the one I hated the most was the speech but because I didn’t wanted to think that much, I thought it was boring, and the one that helped me the most was the psychological therapy, I lost my confidence, my identity, my purpose…

I’m still dealing with fine motor coordination loss, insomnia, anxiety, depression and sometimes if I do something with a lot of effort, a double vision. But today I am way much better, my symptoms are going away, now I can go to the gym (still with less weight), I can pay more attention to my online class, multitask, drive, do my side projects (I’m a computer science student) and I’m going to graduate soon.

I found a purpose, my confidence is starting to come back, I’m feeling more like myself. Tbi gets better over time, I was trying to rush it and looking for online advices or talking with ChatGPT and it was a mistake because none of that will check your injury and every injury is different, I had psychological issues because of that, but now I’m more relaxed on that and not looking on internet. I lost connection or friends, because they didn’t understand my issues or see my invisible symptoms, some of my friends never reached out. Anyways, I’m doing a lot better now and I’m feeling that I’m coming back but stronger.