Hi,

I was wondering if anyone here has any experience in mental illness follwing TBI and how to deal with the situation?

I have a lot to say so I will try my best to keep it as short as possible.

Concussions have been a common occurance throughout my life. When I look back I do notice some changes that occured after some of these although thay were never enough to take away my ability to function within society such as working, socialising etc. That was until nov 2001 when I was beaten up by three police officers in the cells. One of the hardest things for me to deal with has been the fatigue that I suffer. I tried hard to continue in my job which was highly physical but after about a year and many days off with excruciating neck and back pain I had to give it away. I still work but only a few hrs during the winter time.

So because the incident was the police people want little to do with it. It took me about a year or two to even get some CT and MRI scans done myself which I had to pay for because the doctor did not write down in his records that I blacked out in the incident when I told him. They came back negative. In 2007 I went and payed for myself again neuropsychological tests where he was under the belief I had a TBI and wanted to try me on dopamine agonists to help with the apathy. I'm not sure what anyone will make of this but I never got to try them because by this time I was diagnosed as schizophrenic because of beliefs I had developed about perscution type thoughts which are basically opinions I have formed about why so many people have ended up dead around my life since this started. I do not share much else in common with schizophrenics. So basically now I am constanlly threated to be placed under the mental health act if I do not take my resperidone injection which just makes the fatigue worse. I spend a lot of my life asleep.