I agree with Mark and Mokey.

We need to let go of other people's label of what's "wrong" with us, whenever possible. Who needs it, really? Does knowing what exact strain of virus you have make you any less sick? In the same way, let go of what doesn't sit "true" to you and focus on minimizing symptoms, and using work-arounds for the lingering symptoms.

I liken it to "dumping the cache" of what the latest professional has said that filled my head with self doubt.

I was there when I hit my head to pavement. They weren't. I suffered a brain injury. They didn't. Nearly 8 months later I'm still feeling its effects. No one can take that and minimize it. It is my truth.

I will use "them" (professional supports) when they are useful to me. Otherwise I dump their nonsense from my brain. Particularly if their opinion does not affect your return to work or your insurance coverage, then it has little impact and is worthless.

I refuse to believe that we PCS'ers suffer depression or anxiety due to emotional reaction or adjustment to the injury, as many professionals lead us to believe or insist to be true. I firmly believe that those symptoms are physiological, directly linked to tissue damage, and we are left to cope with them. Either way, we are left to cope. So who's "right" doesn't exactly matter and is currently impossible to prove.

I can't wait for the day (and it will come) that the dark ages of brain injury are over. I may be in my nineties (if God wills it) when the diagnostic tools are finally sophisticated enough to detect and "prove" what we've all experienced.

Until then, validated or not, I must cope and discipline my thoughts.