After receiving head trauma from boxing in early July (stupid sport in reflection), I've basically been diagnosed as having my second episode of severe depression. 2 senior psychiatrists in the health authority (UK) tell that my ruminations about brain damage are just obsessive thoughts/psychosis - direct symptoms of depression and nothing to do with any head injury.

While I'm not looking for someone to say, yes you have brain injury, I feel quite lost and pessimistic about the long term outcome, fearing something has been overlooked. I know Mark In Idaho has helpfully suggested DTI MRI, but at the moment, the only person that is entertaining I have had head injury is me.

I can't believe how much or sudden I feel I have changed in the last 2 months, I am the mirror opposite of my former confident, active, social, outgoing and positive self. The psych doctors are putting this down to emotional / psychological trauma / reactive depression.

One of the medications I've been given is known to cause low blood pressure and I've been on an increased dose of this for the last week. I completely fainted late on Friday night and fell hitting the back of my head on the stone tile bathroom floor. There was no lasting pain, just a buzzing sensation and for a few seconds I was just lay there thinking "I can't believe this has just happened anxiety, this is going to make the first concussion worse".

Bizarrely, on Saturday I actually felt much better about things - the jolt to the head may have shaken up my neurotransmitters again. I've had a bit of a headache since and my touch typing has gone a bit squiffy again. I've now been advised to reduce my medication because of the risk of fainting.

Has / does anyone else experience the following symptoms with PCS and, where appropriate to share, treatments/strategies that have worked for them?

Low motivation - especially getting out of bed
Low libido and related dysfunction
Emotional flatness / loss of empathy