I have been diagnosed with multiple personality disorder and apost-traumatic-stress-disorder. These limit my social life,the jobs that I am limited to, and my personal life as well. I used to go through therapista like a 12 year old boy go through G.I.Joes.I suffer from depression,frustration,anxiety,and anger on a mega scale. the only reason I haven’t blown my brains out is because I have let Jesus Christ into my life.He made a promise to me that he would return and rescue me from my disabilities. He is the good shepard.When he calls I will follow him into the land that is free of sin. Heaven and earth are going to be one again.God will set up his kingdom in Juruselem and I will be there to watch it all happen.

With this knowledge behind me,I just do what I can do and I let Jesus Christ handle what I can’t handle. every day I ask Him for the forgiveness of my sins and he in his infinate mercy will forgive me-Amen!

Kevan

If anyone else out there is going through the same problem-please write-Kevan

He and I both know that he owes his life to the lucky circumstance that someone who knew CPR was on the scene immediately. He was not breathing and an unknown portion of his deficits now are due to lack of oxygen as well as the twisting injury to his brain stem and other contrecoup injuries.

What has been the most frustrating for him is the lack of brain injury specific treatments. He got the best treatment available at the time and in so many ways it was miraculous. Yet, as an adult now, he is not treated as a TBI patient, but as a psychiatric patient. And far to many psychiatric treatments are too closely tied with drug abuse.

His physical problems such as painful spasms are essentially ignored. A few doctors recognize that constant physical pain is a problem, but because his injuries mimic certain psychiatric diagnoses, they also refuse simple pain treatment… for fear of drug abuse.

Though so many suffer TBI, there is not (that I can see) a medical ideology to deal with these injuries outside of psychiatric treatment. Psychotropic drugs are powerful and they can induce mania… and the mania they induce triggers a diagnosis of bipolar… which involves — for the TBI patient — an artificial diagnosis of the self-fulfilling type.

Over the years, my son has been diagnosed with so many different things. A few doctors were honest enough to tell us that their diagnosis depended on whether insurance would pay for treatment or not. Others honestly thought he was suffering from one DSM problem or another.

The one thing that confuses me is that though the very first CT scan my son had showed that his substantia nigra — an important part of the brain in producing dopamine — was destroyed, that no one, even those we’ve begged to look at that, have taken us seriously that a dopamine deficiency is a huge part of his problem.

Anyway… I keep reading and I keep suggesting and hoping that researchers will eventually look at injuries separately from “inborn” problems. I’ve no doubt they are related and I’ve also no doubt that taking a look from a different perspective will help those suffering from either or both.

While a stroke may not be considered a TBI by some (it’s called an Aquired Brain Injury or ABI) believe me when I say that for all that, it’s traumatic none the less. The disruption is real, the disabities are real, the guilt and loss are real.

Keep putting the message out there as I will. Eventually someone will take notice of the fact that this is a very very virulent and frequent disease.

Lars.

Have a simply amazing rest of your day and God bless you!

Craig