Hi so happy I found this website!
I am a mom looking for help in dealing with my sons TBI.
We live in a rural area and do not have any resources.
He is 14 months into his TBI. He also had 4 Craniotomy’s.
Last one was this past July.
He was doing very well until this past December, very agitated, angry, would get over stimulated very easily.
He is 28 lives with us now, and he has two children 5 & 3 that are with us part of the time.
Christmas was horrible due to his behavior, he was out of work and was just released last March. He went back to his job which is a road worker.
He was so happy to be back to work after sitting around for a year. Now two months in he hates it, he is a road worker, and most of his job has been traffic control where he stands for 8 hours and holds the sign. He says he is quitting and going back to his maintenance job which would open the door for him to go back to drinking. He seems to not be making good sound logical choices. We can’t discuss anything with him, without him blowing up. He will not go to counseling nor take anything for his depression. He seems to go in and out of this faze since December but now seems stuck here.
He seems to be distant or detached emotionally from his children whom he adored before his accident. He is also fixated on his game that is on his phone. Yesterday he was on it from 1:00 am to 8:00 pm. Is this normal behavior being 14 months in?