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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: GulfCoastSouth .... April 2014 rudely displanted to the cold wet windy gloomy NW coast.
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Location: GulfCoastSouth .... April 2014 rudely displanted to the cold wet windy gloomy NW coast.
Posts: 675
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Re: "Can anxiety and depression make (tbi/pcs) symptoms worse?"
CW21,
As previously posted above, yes, indeed.
Also, as well, in the long term of recovery ... many doctors (currently out-of-touch with the most current base of knowledge, i.e. genuinely unknowledgeable about TBI/PCS/concussions) are more-than-ready to "sweep under the rug" your 'symptoms' under the diagnosis of "depression".
Rather than the docs actually addressing 'cognitive dysfunction' ... it's all too "simply easy" for them to diagnose it as "Depression".
Maintain your good post-concussion care and nutrition; educate yourself about your injury, so that you may speak knowledgeably with your doctors about your symptoms.
For example, be able to speak clearly about what your physical-malaise symptoms are ... what are your mental/cognitive dysfunctions ... what are your psychological states of being ... what the emotional reactions/responses are.
Best to you in your recovery,
Theta
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50s Babyboomer; 2008 high-impact rear-ended/totalled-MVC, closed-head injury->pcs ... "Still dealing with it."
1993, Fell on black ice; first closed-head injury; life-altering. // 2014 Now dealing with Peripheral Neuropathy, tremors, shakiness, vestibular disorder, akithesia, anhedonia, yada yada, likely thanks to rx meds // 2014: uprooted to the cold wet gray NW coast, trying to find a way back home ... where it's blue sky and warm!
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Each and every day I am better and better. I affirm and give thanks that it is so. // 2014-This was still true for me last year, I truly felt this a year ago. Unfortunately it holds no meaning for me now. Odd, it was the Theta mantra for years. Change change change.
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