[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Have you ever known anyone who was mentally changed after head trauma? (Page 4 of 4)
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I knew a guy that had a head injury from a motorcycle wreck. It was touch and go for awhile but he was never the same. He became unbearable to be around. He talked non-stop and had some behavior that kind of reminded one of schizophrenia. He broke up his brothers marriage with his drama. He was a totally different person from before the wreck. Brain damage is horrible. |
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My great uncle. Had a stroke. Almost died. Never really got his speech back. Used to be the "funny guy" at family functions. Now he can barely walk. His speech is basically limited to. "Yes", "No", "Bad", "Good". Been that way for 10+ years. Still a good (and funny) person, but struggles to do day to day stuff. Mentally there, just not physically. |
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Low speed Harley accident, rear ended a car with no helmet, flew off bike an suffered brain stem injury. Eventually died within three years of complications. After the accident, at his best, he lost all memory of the last 10-12 years. Forget he moved 1000+ miles - and was effectively living in the early 1990s. His error cost his parents and my family dearly. He always was a selfish prick. |
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My uncle got in a car wreck when he was in his late teens. In the 50's. It messed him up but no one really knew why at the time. He had a shitty life, was an alcoholic for most of it until they diagnosed him properly. He now lives in a group home and is happy and drug free.
Good friend from high school, sharp as a tack. Became a helicopter tech and was in high demand. Then got in a car wreck. Is slow to talk and function. Not so much in high demand anymore. Neighbor, cousin, high school friend. Got in a race car wreck. Not too much impairment, but you can tell. Things take a little time to process now. |
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13 years ago. The first year I was living with my sister and her husband. She jokes now it was like they were living with a stranger. I also had a siezure like condition that was giving my dozens of minor siezures/day which was the cause of my medical discharge. Thats nearly completely gone away now. I only get 1-2/year now. Lots of depression and migraines which have also nearly cleared up. My memory was fucked to. I've done lots of memory training on my own to help me get back to par. I see it now a lot and think I get better results with patients because I can relate and I have a little more patience than some others. |
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My son. 
He was an academic genius, literally, with an identic memory, and probably the smartest person I have ever known. He was 16 when he wrecked his car and suffered a severe traumatic brain injury. He is now 18, a Senior in High School, works two jobs, and has recovered remarkably well, but struggles with some subjects now. He is not the same person he was before. Before, he was very introverted. Now, he's an extrovert. He is also argumentative, angry, and aggressive, and his friends have abandoned him. He and I have always been extremely close, but now I, and only I, am the object of his aggression. I am very sad for him, and I would trade places with him, or give every material possession I have, if it meant he would make a full recovery. I AM THANKFUL TO GOD FOR SPARING HIS LIFE, REGARDLESS.
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Yep me. I can't remember much of the invasion. We shot to many super 8 charges in to short a time period. And during speed shifts we where in each others area of echo. Blew out all our 7 ton windows. Some marines dropped due to concussion.
Afterwords i noticed i had lots of mood swings flew off the handle quite a bit. Then got in a MC accident in 2013 w no helmet. Didnt get knocked out or lppse consciousness...but i can tell I'm not too right anymore. I say what i want when i want. It just comes out....so now i live on a mountain in the middle of nowhere and get paid a little to watch a friends property their. |
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I have a sneaking suspicion that most of the motorcycle accident injuries metioned were do to lack of helmet. Either no helmet at all or a douchebag half helmet/ brain pan, that Harley riders use. With a proper Snell rated full face helmet, I bet 9/10 of people would have walked away. I ride 5 days a week for work, always full gear. No time for injuries. |
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A buddy of mine from the tech school we both attended in Phoenix crashed his motocross bike early one morning. We would ride in the giant vacant lot next to our apartment complex, and he landed badly on a jump. He wasn't wearing a helmet and fractured his skull behind his left ear. We don't know how long he laid out there before someone found him, but he was in a coma for four days. When he got out of the hospital he was deaf in one ear, had lost his sense of smell and taste, and became easily confused and aggressive for no reason.
It's a shame because he was only twenty, and had to drop out of school and live with his brother in another state. |
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Yes. me...I have had concussions over the years, never been a big issue, but in march of 13, was driving down the highway when a guy t-boned my truck in the drivers door and drove me off the road right at an exit ramp, that had a road grader backing up it(pushing snow berm back in the ditch).Cops figured I hit the grader at 60 mph..went from 60 to 0 in 4 feet...pics are the best explanation...
Attached File Attached File Evidently I had a bleed in the brain that went undiagnosed for almost 3 years, but it killed off part of my brain, I fight 20 plus symptoms from non stop headache to hearing, vision, memory issues to simple temperature regulation...I live with my kids now, haven't worked since the wreck, and have no idea if the medical world will ever come up with an answer...It is a miserable world to live in much of the time...  It is rare for me to leave home(once/twice a month), and when I do I have to fear the headache getting worse wether triggered by light, sound, or just thinking to hard..I do my best to stay positive and upbeat but I worry about the future often...The future looks bad as a normal part of TBI and concussion is problems later in life with major brain issues such as dementia or Alzheimer's or worse.... Not to mention the burden to my kids.. 
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My uncle was pretty gone for awhile. Hasn't fully recovered, but he's much better than right after his accident.
He worked construction and was guiding a crane down a to-be-manhole when his glove caught, pulling him off balance and into the hole. Fell nearly 20ft landing on his head. He's blind now, deaf in 1 ear and acts a bit differently today, although he's in pretty good spirits about it. He had a news article published about him, because he still builds bird houses and other furniture and sells them. The guy is blind and operates his table saw and other machinery like it's no big deal ', '  ' );" target="_blank">
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I work with a guy in his mid 40's. He is mentally slow. He is kind of a laborer or gopher in our shop. He can do simple tasks. Big guy. Strong as hell. I've been working with him a while and figured he was born that way. Found out today he was in a bad vehicle wreck when he was in his early 20s. Suffered head trauma. Also lost his teeth. I guess he has never been the same since. He lives on his own but can't drive. Only allowed to work 5 hours a day. His paychecks go to someone else who pays his bills. He is The nicest and friendliest guy. But he comes up with stories about how he owns over 70 trucks, half dozen 18 wheelers... He is the first person, that I knew of, who was the way he was because of a trauma. Mentally, not physically. I imagine I've encountered more but never realized it. I realized today that the times I have encountered people with mental disorders, I always assumed they were born that way. How dumb of me. Just curious if any of you have had similar instances meeting people who have been mentally changed due to a head trauma or tbi. BTW, our company does employ people with disabilities, there is him and a guy missing a leg. I was told "it looks good to the government". Yes. He fell out of the back of a truck when he was 13 or 14 and had a brain injury. Prior to that he was a straight-A type student, skinny/athletic, spoke spanish/german as well as english, dude was gifted. Afterward he grew a beard, talked like Beavis and chronically flunked out of his classes. He also forgot his other languages. It was weird as hell. |
| I have investigated and prosecuted a few people like this, and am pretty sure I've represented some. Years ago, I did pretty extensive research on the phenomenon. The stories IRL and in research were spookily repetitive. The term we used (still worth googling) was "closed head injury." Always, in my cases and the sources I read there was a closed head injury (i.e. trauma w/o opening the skull), radical change in personality/affect, memory loss, fuse shortened to about 1/16". I was convinced enough that before hickory shampoos became entirely out of fashion, I instructed cops to avoid striking people in the head. My reasoning was that if you clobber somebody who survives, you may very well be arming a bomb which will go off on the next cop who confronts the suspect. |
| A couple. Mother of a member of our church and scout troop was injured when a car jumped the curb and hit a couple of ladies waiting at a bus stop. She had some permanent physical issues and had some mental deficits afterwards as well. One kid from our elementary school class was kind of a "bad" kid, not too bad, just kind of a jerk, intentional screw up, troublemaker at school. Was "partying" in nearby mountains and fell when a branch broke or something similar resulting in a fall and skull injuries. Aggravated his negatives and lost track of him after a while. IIRC, he died young drug related. |
| Cousin was seriously injured in an accident, drunk asshole didn't properly secure a boat he was towing and it came through the windshield, killed the guy driving and put my cousin in the hospital for weeks. Definitely fucked him up for life, getting hooked on painkillers further aggravated his issues. He pretty much lives in his mother's basement and plays video games, when he's not in the hospital dealing with medical issues. |
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Me. I have suffered two TBI's. One as a child. I talk way too much. I can have conversations with anybody about anything and they are engaged the entire time. I can also be a bit too irritable. Thank God for the military teaching me discipline.
It's hard to imagine that I was constantly told to speak up and stop being so shy when I was younger. |