I hope you’re symptoms lessen for you Christy

Thank you! This helped me, I had a hemorrhagic stroke & have brain damage & have the same symptoms. I pray also to get through this. He is the only way to cope with life after brain injury.

Thank you! It’s taken me years to learn this, and it has not been a easy path.
This has been the hardest thing I’ve ever been through and I’m still going through it.
I suppose in the degree of TBI I suffered this last 1 was a severe brain injury.
My first 2 TBI’s where minimum but still TBI, but that last one, changed me completely.
It’s just a hard life to live truth be told.

I totally understand. I do best on my own, to go at my speed and pace. We don’t need any other stress on us, because we are using all our energy just to be there to get the task done. No one understands how hard everyday life is for us. So I’ve learned to live just in today or just in this hour, so I don’t stress myself out. Thanks for the blog love! It’s hard for us, but glad to know I’m not a Lone Ranger on this journey! God bless you! Keep up the good work!

It’s good that you are comfortable in your own company and know what is good for you. I think many of us struggle in group situations and can understand your need to keep it to one person at a time.

Overstimulation is a real problem for me too, so I totally relate. I am do supermarket shopping, but only if I’m on my own. If I go with my partner I can’t cope with not being in 100% of control over time and location: If he wants to look at something which isn’t of interest to me, that moment of waiting gives me brain too much time to think about other shoppers and how they are unintentionally stressing me out.

And I have no control over it, once they have pushed me over the line. BAM I blow!
Period. No filters, there gone, all I got if God intervenes and helps me.

Now, Ive learned to keep my life very simple and balanced so I try not to have these problems.
I keep very few people in my life. I can’t handle people. One on one in conversation and a little time is all I can handle. That’s healthy for my life.

If I go to a family function, I am sitting outside alone away from it all because it’s too much. Too much noise, people and etc.
I’m happily alone, but I’m not really alone cause Gods with me.

BTW, I’ve seen counselors and everyone I met told me I’m doing great and I should be the 1 talking to people. And I look at them crossed eyed and walk out the door. Then I laugh and say God thank You for being with me. Cause honestly folks, you know as well as I do how hard this life really is.
What’s that old saying…. Until you walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, you’ll never understand.

Much love to you all!
Please Know that your not alone!
There are many of us who survived TBI’s, PTSD and all that.
There is light at the end of your tunnel, you just have to find what works for you. Have your boundaries, protect yourself, and it’s ok to say No to whatever you don’t feel is right for you.
And with anger, pray ask God to help you. He’s always helped me with everything. And some prayers were answered in time as I learned from Him what to do. He hears the 1st prayer, and now He’s working with you to teach you how to overcome and deal with that situation. It’s a learning process. Takes notes, journal, write the date and time you prayed, write your prayer down.
And as you journal your days, you’ll go back over your notes and realize Wow look this prayer got answered and you’ll see the way He taught you. He’s a Supernatural God!
This is a journey we are on but we are not alone! We have a Heavenly Abba Father who delights in us, even when we are broken. He looks and says, hey now they are ready. The Master Potter God will help mold us, change us, and teach us through this trail. I reckon we are picking up our cross and following Him in this place. So it’s a good thing. I know many days it’s doesn’t feel like it, but we got to lift up our heads and look up to Him! Our help comes from Him!
I pray this encourages you, and gives you a great hope! I do with all my heart because I’ve walked a mile or 2 in your shoes!
Much love to you! God bless you all!

I would never wish this on anyone. But I know and trust with all my heart Jesus is with me. I could of never made it this far without Him.
I know we all have stories. Just thought I’d share mine. There’s more of us survivors out there than we relies.
God bless you all, trust Him, He wants to help us more than we realize!

I do hope people can better appreciate what is happening when a survivor has an outburst and that this will help lower the stress for all those involve.

Thank you for your empathy, words, and understanding of father’s changes. Your strategies are right on and I hope to share them with others so that they can better understand what those that have brain changes are going through.