Depression or Overload?
 

For those of you who have been at this a long time, I'm looking to get some insight about the current state of my return to a more "normal" life.

My accident was 3/8/11 so I am almost 21 months into recovery. Last Fall, I started taking 2 classes with accomodations from the disability service in my Master's program. I'm still not working.

I have been in treatment for depression throughout this experience. I no longer feel sad or hopeless all the time and actually find myself laughing at times and smiling. This is wonderful.

However, I had a way too overloaded holiday season and also had a bought with the flu. That's been gone for a couple of weeks.

I started classes again last week. So far, I only have two classes, which are unfortunately back to back on the same night. (Basically I'm in class from 5pm-9pm and then have a half hour drive home). I'm exhausted, sensory overloaded and have a bad headache by the time I get home.

I've experienced an increase in symptoms, mainly fatigue and lack of motivation, but also a resurgence of vision problems. How would I know whether this is depression related? Or if I am over doing it?

It seems unlikely that I would relapse this far at this point in my recovery from my TBI. However, I don't feel extremely depressed like I did before either. I just can't seem to shake being tired and due to this, I can't really get anything done motivation wise.

It sounds to me like you are overdoing it. It is not too late for you to relapse. I just relapsed at the beginning of this year and I'm just about at my 2-year mark.