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Originally Posted by Jinxicat9
I'm by far more often flat or non-emotional. I think maybe I've cried twice in 2 yrs (just a few tears really), when I learned I wouldn't be going back to work and when it was found that my TBI was worse than we anticipated. I feel some emotions, I just don't seem to have any physical or mental response to them.
Anyone experience emotional flatness or know anything about emotional deficits after a TBI?
I've not been able to find any info except for being more emotional not less.
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Hi I was very much like you as above. I simply didn't feel anything strongly,was a little short tempered and impatient with my family at times, but that was it.
I don't think I had the energy to cry - even when my husband left me I didn't. More or less shrugged my shoulders and thought oh I had better go to work. (all 3 hours a day that I was trying to cope with at the time)
My psychiatrist told me it was a sign of depression. I still think a contributing factor was and still is tiredness.
My GP says I am stoic - ha ha - I ended up looking that up in the dictionary as I didn't think we had the same definition.
The above was 10 years ago - now I think it is more likely that I can no longer cope with a lot of emotion.
Maybe you are hanging on by a thread to not lose control. I do know that I am/was a control freak. Maybe you could be too. Also I don't chose to waste my energy on things that I know I can't deal with.
I have had two moments of tears in the last 10 years;
the first when the ER doctor insinuated I did not have a head injury and merely wanted compensation,
then the second was 3 years ago when a client fired me and I simply burst into tears and went home and stayed home.
Hope that has been of some help - all part of the self awareness problem I think!
Lynlee