Traumatic brain injury (TBI), traumatic injuries to the brain, also called intracranial injury, or simply head injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes brain damage. TBI can resu...
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Personality Change After Acquired Brain Injury
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I would like to know if anyone elses personality and likes and dislikes and memory and cognitive functioning and creativity has changed since their brain injury whether it was a closed brain injury like mine encephalitis or a traumatic brain injury My whole personality has changed my sense of humor and creativity are gone I feel like I am dull Things I loved b4 I dont like now ie I used to love horror movies now cant watch them b4 I had a great witty sense of humor now its gone I dont know who I am anymore even close friends and family have commented where did the old Jane go? It is really depressing does the old you ever come back or do you need to develop a new you? Please help this is really bothering me thanx jane
Posted on 01/31/08, 10:01 pm |
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most definately. I was deep in that same reality, but am much better now.
I am working to retrieve creativity. My sense of humour is even coming back. Of course, my local 'support system' has at times been pretty suppressive and that too can dim your sense of humour. I read somewhere, I think Scientific American Mind that BI patients often have changes of sense of humour. They said that they were more likely to laugh at slap-stick comedy. Who knew? Sometimes when I go to think a thought, perhaps in response to something someone said, it seems to take 3-5 seconds for the thought to move to where I can use it!!! Not always, but sometimes i can almost feel that delay. Overall, I have beaten most of my symptoms with time and NCR treatments. Several months ago I could 'see' my old self, but not reach it, like a name on the tip of your tongue. I'm much further along now. I don't know how to explain, but I hope my story gives you some hope. 
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Yes my personality change I suffer depression, I have to lean on people to tell me what to do. I don’t know what makes me happy.
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Hi Jane,
I had closed head injury too! My personality totally changed too. My sense of humor is totally gone. When people tell me jokes, if I even get it, I don't find them funny. Of course, out of politeness I fake a laugh. I'm extremely moody. My mood can change at the drop of a hat. And over the slightest thing! My tbi was 18 years ago so I guess I've gotten used to it but I sure wish the "old me" would come back!! But, really, the new us is better!! We all now have an added strength that only comes from surviving such an ordeal! So, hats off to the new us!! Good Luck. Kelly
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I'm still funny and enjoy sarcasm, I think, after my TBI like 2 and 1/2 years. Also, for the better, I used to hang out and drink in a bar every night, but after my TBI, no more cravings.
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Hi. Since you don't go to bars and drink a lot anymore maybe it was a blessing in disguise! you do have to work on the brain; its like any other organ, it has to be exercised; and like anyother muscle, the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.
Kelly
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