Hello people,
I want to share my story and ask some questions about it subsequently.
When I was 16 and a half years old (12 years ago) I was assaulted on the street by a guy who was trained in Kickboxing. This sob knocked me out and kept on kicking on my head while I was unconscious on the ground. I was unconscious and had retrograde amnesia for a very short period of time like below 10 minutes (possibly below 5 minutes), but my nose and the ethmoid bone behind it was broken. Not much and I would have had an open head injury. Well I didn't feel any other symptoms like dizziness or confusion immediately after the concussion, but could indeed stand up and call the emergency by myself.
However I had a partially torn ethmoid artery which tore apart fully a week after the incident and because my doc ****ed up and tried to stanch the bleeding first with balloons I had three consecutive days of the most intense pain in my life until I got the surgery which solved the problem. The incident however had deep psychological impact on me, because other than that incident I had a very troublesome environment with abusive parents and no other social support.
Ever since that incident my personality has profoundly changed. I became depressive and lethargic and I feel like my cognitive functions were impaired.
This impairment becomes most apparent when I try myself at math. I was really strong at math before the incident. Afterwards I had troubles at solving even easy problems. I was ahead of a couple of guys before the incident who became better than me afterwards. I feel that my short time memory, my attention and my focus got damaged. Furthermore I develop fatigue very easily.
However Im nonetheless unsure wether the depression and the cognitive impairment as described above could really be the result of the incident or rather the result of a psycho-reactive misadaption after the concussion. They say that the duration of unconsciousness and amnesia correlate with the brain damage. If so, I shouldn't have these problems right now since I was only unconscious for a very brief period of time, should I? Is it possible to display resp. exclude structural damage in the brain through medical imaging?