hi

I to feel the isolation and its ok to say we feel this way ,they say it can be harder for people that were, more ,how can I say, alpha in there lives pre tbi , that is not to say all of us, don.t suffer, but it is the lost of status and feeling of self worth, and being in a room and people, talking about you in the 3rd person , for me I live in the now I can remember a show in the seventy's but cant remember what I had for breakfast or a persons name I just spoke to and it frustrates me all the meds in the world cant change that so, its down to me with help to come up with ways of coping/ also the tremors frustrate me , used to cave jade as a hobby I have just finished a piece ,I want to give Christmas present to my family , but due to all this money is not there, so I have changed the way I cave holding the piece in a heavy vice and the cutting bit fixed and moving the vice I will bump up my thread on creative corner ,its a small project, not a half a mill engineering project that I use to complete, but for me its giving me back something this tbi took, the depression try's to stop us trying( EG I would look at a task and not act do you know what I mean ? ) I try to use tools in a different way like my computer is my brain attachment,

we all have something special to give the Art bit of my brain wants to create and will find ways to do so

the head ache just plain sucks
this board has helped me thanks buddys