Comments on: TBI and PTSD isn’t limited to just war vets, it can happen to anyone

By: Michele

Michele — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:31:46 +0000

I just wanted to say that this was truly informative, because as a TBI survivor I realize that the feeling I feel going down a set of stairs, or walking on icy roads or even just walking in general, the amount of fear now has a home. I have PTSD and was found to have it by talking to the counselor I had who helped me transition back to daily life.

By: Lydia Brown

Lydia Brown — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:28:37 +0000

I survived a near-fatal TBI with a coma after a newly trained horse threw me just outside of the farm as we headed out to the trails. I was not wearing a helmet. I was immediately knocked out and never suffered PTSD. My TBI was serious, I was bleeding from every orifice and my ICU nurse friend, Liz , who was riding with me when I had the accident, told me months later she didn’t think I would live long enough to make it to the hospital only 4 miles away. She was the one who had to get both horses back to the barn, call 911, call my adult daughter and parents, and get back out to where I was lying to meet the ambulance with my wallet containing my insurance info, etc.. She saw the whole thing. Poor Liz was a nervous wreck the first day we went trail riding after I rehabbed for 6 months! And she and I both ALWAYS wore our riding helmets after my accident!

By: Michelle #jumbledbrain

Michelle #jumbledbrain — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 12:47:47 +0000

In reply to Joanna Dalton.

I believe that just because we can’t access those memories, it doesn’t mean they aren’t there. I’m disappointed that your psychiatrist said you couldn’t get it, that’s the type of attitude that we need to change. I hope you’re doing better after your experience and it doesn’t keep triggering.

By: Joanna Dalton

Joanna Dalton — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 12:32:13 +0000

Michelle, I recently experienced PTSD for the first time. The psychiatrist that I saw told me he believed I couldn’t get it because I don’t remember my accident.

I had my eyes lazered in January (not the best plan for a DAI survivor with damage to the occipital lobe, but that’s another story!). I was given a sedative & watched on my Garmin as my stress level & heart rate decreased.

I was cool, calm & collected – until the machine pressed down hard on my face & shoulders. I panicked & began shouting in English (it was a Swiss clinic) “Stop, it’s too much!”

I can only assume that it brought back memories of the 3 medicus in the helicopter who had to hold me down & force me inside as I was so agitated.