I really hope you feel better soon. Jumping right back into being an RN is not that easy. If you have TBI, that can cause the depression. Any injury that takes us our of commission can result in depression. Treat both, and go back easy into the work force as you can tolerate. Being an RN, and especially a charge nurse or administrative head is one of the hardest jobs there is! My neighbor was one, and that job took alot out of her. Get all the help you can like you are doing. I hope you heal fast, and can get the council to help with the depression. I lost my carreer overy my health issues, and it put me into a tail spin for long long time, and it took alot of help and council for me to feel better. I wish you all the best. WE NEED our nurses, they are the ones who really do the work to help us to get better. I hope you make a full recovery, and can go back to this wonderful profession. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. ginnie

My mom was an RN, I know it's a very tough job!

I don't know exactly what kind of nursing you did, but maybe you can find an RN job that is less stressful than your last one was. (Although, I have no idea what it could be!)

Maybe you can get in touch with some of your professional contacts, or a local university or college and see if anyone needs a good RN who can't quite work in quite the same capacity as most can... And remember, (this is something I have trouble with), just because you can't work in the same way that you could before the accident, doesn't mean it's not good enough.

FYI, chronic pain can also cause the depression scale to be high. Basically, it just shows that you are dealing with a lot of psychological distress whether it is of mental, physical, or emotional origin.