The Concussions

Posted by sorry_for_the_reply@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 12 comments

I just compared brain jiggling head trauma lists with my brothers. One has 2, one has 3.

My list is at 9 that were significant.

I know that 9 is rookie numbers, though.

My recent one in October has really rattled me to the point where I don't know if I'll ever get back to where I was before it. It's scary because my career is based on my capabilities in solving problems, and now I feel a bit muted.

My behavioral changes are aligned with the symptoms of CTE. I have been diagnosed with bipolar, but could it be major head trauma in my early years that could actually be the root cause of my inability to regulate my emotions? Have I been trying to cure something I don't have for the last 30 years?

Because of this thought, I've decided I'm going to give my brain to get tested for CTE when my time is up. I won't get the answer to why I'm so messed up, but maybe others will.

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skeeterbmark@reddit

Never been diagnosed with one, but I know I got a couple playing football in high school. Coach called it “getting your bell rung.”

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Feisty-Lifeguard-550@reddit

Iv had two bad concussions and a few knocks to the head and Iv had CT scans and sat with a neuropsychologist for 8 weeks doing tests. CT scan was fine but some of the tests came back that my memory wasn’t the same, slight trauma and bad executive functioning. After the last accident I had Iv not been as sharp as I used to be Hope you’re ok.

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Worldly_Possible2925@reddit

2017 I was rear ended by a 70 year old guy who passed out at the previous light and floored it all the way down the street into the back of my Slingshot. Wrote off the Slingshot, broke two of my ribs and seriously rang my bell. Even though I was wearing an open faced helmet I got a pretty good concussion. I was lights out for a couple of minutes. Fast forward a couple of months and I step out of my apartment and I can’t find my car ? I searched the parking garage for 20 minutes before calling my wife to help me report it stolen. Turns out I couldn’t remember that I’d sold it a year earlier and gotten a new one. 🤷🏼‍♂️ I was driving it every day.

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sorry_for_the_reply@reddit (OP)

That's rough. Do you remember the actual impact?

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Worldly_Possible2925@reddit

Oh hell yeah. I had a good 10 seconds of watching a white car barreling down on me in my rear view mirror. I was desperately trying to figure out should I lift my back off the seat, or risk letting the impact travel straight through the car frame through my internal organs. I decided to lean forward, which explains my head ricochet. My fist 👊 white knuckled around my steering wheel { no airbags in a slingshot } gave me one hell of a black eye. I think it’s why I blacked out. I’m really not sure if I did the right thing.

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