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Originally Posted by xxxxcrystalxxxx
On July 12th I opened up a cabinet door that was floor to ceiling and weighed about fifty pounds. As soon as it opened the sharp edge came down on the right side of the front of my head near the temple...
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p.s. I've noticed I have anger..... normal????? The matienance workers where I work knew the door that came off the hinges had the wrong hinges on it. He mentioned it when they told him what happened. He said, " I know they installed the wrong hinges". This upsets me. An avoidable accident and I have to pay...What the Y&*%$....... so yeah I am pist...
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Hi Crytal! Sorry about this.
I see a possible big red flag here. Frontal lobe injury, and the "A" word- anger. Google TBI or PCS and the word "anger". Thousands of hits will come up showing the big correlation between this type of brain injury and anger. (There may be a lot on this forum also, but I'm brand new here and haven't seen everything yet).
I just want to be brief here, so here's the scoop. Primitive emotions like anger (and fear, aggression, sex drive) are largely "stored" in the more primitive areas of the brain near the center of the head, which is more cushioned in an impact injury. The higher "executive functions" are housed in the frontal areas of the cortex, meaning the abilities to control the more primitive drives.
So what happens in a frontal injury is compromise of impulse control, allowing those raw primitive emotions to run unchecked. Perhaps the most common is uncontrolled anger. Not just about what happened to you in the accident, but about everything and nothing.
Also do a search on the name Phineas Gage, a railroad worker who suffered a severe brain injury and whose personality changed over night.
My TBI was also to the right frontal lobe, and boy do I have a story to tell of my own.
Kenjhee