Hey! I have a moderate TBI 5 months ago from a car accident which I was a passenger and I dont have much symptoms, I have only remaining things like insomnia and fatigue in long days, everything else I had improved. Now I can go to the gym and lift heavy, I even graduated from my computer science career and I feel pretty good about it.
I received support from my friends when I was at the hospital, I can’t complain, but post-hospital I was really depressed and I felt less support, I know that I don’t have everyone on top of me checking but they sometimes leaving me on “read”, or I texted them and they responded like a day after and I felt like they did it for the sake of it, only a few of my friends was there for me all the time. My “best friend” never texted or called after the accident, he moved and started a career and I know he is busy but for 5 months? Not 5 minutes free ?
I never told anyone but my close connections of my TBI, some of the people not really close know about it because they just discovered it and I don’t feel uncomfortable, this is for context
I reposted some stories on Instagram about my graduation and I received a lot of supportive messages but I noticed that you will have a lot of people in the good moments, but when you are going through a hard time, people isolate, these moments show who are the real ones. Anyways im happy overall because im improving and still with TBI can achieve goals! 1-2 months post TBI i was on google/chatgpt with a lot of anxiety and sometimes i was never finding anything positive, and i was really anxious, if you identify like this, you got this, it got better, i believe in you! Just go through the best habits and you will accelerate it