Hello

[Sherral]

Hello, I suffered a TBI in 2015 and have PTSD due to a criminal attack. I practically live a normal life but find it difficult to relate to people around me who just don't seem to understand and I don't know where to turn. Feel free to get in touch if you can relate.

[Pat-rick1]

Hi sherral, you are in the right place 👌

[Sherral in reply to Pat-rick1]

Thank you for your reply Patrick. It's been three years now and I look completely normal and apparently I should be thankful. I also understand how you feel. Motivation is the hardest, some days I lie in bed all day but then I can have a better day the day after - sometimes it has to be done. I was fortunate I guess in that I've always had my dog and despite my being ill and not being able to walk him back then I still had to get up to let him into the back garden. But family, friends, colleagues etc, they tell you to pull yourself together and get on with it, it truly becomes an "invisible illness" - the sympathy I guess runs out after so long but this doesn't heal like a broken leg does it? Speak soon.

[cat3]

Sherral, people are basically selfish and that isn't meant as criticism ; just fact. But if I think back to my pre-brain injury days I don't believe I had a clue about the after effects of any BI and, to be fair, I think it's impossible for anyone other than ourselves to empathise.

That's why this forum is something of a haven.............I hope you'll stay around and find that out for yourself. Cat x