Losing My Bunny: Coping with Grief After a TBI

I hope with time you are feeling a little better. Changes in life and routine are hard to cope with after a TBI, finding new enjoyable distractions can help in the healing process. The new activity helps keep the memory alive of what you miss, because that's when you started it. My TBI happened when I was 3 years old, so knowing the "before me" has been more mourning of who I could have been had I done things differently, my entire life. Most people I have found with TBI are either from injury caused by accident or an attack from others. Mine is from an incident I caused myself, making my family the victim of my actions with them having to provide an extra level of care for me over the years. If there's an argument that there's an age "too young to talk about suicide with", I would be an example that ages 2 and 3 are not to young as my actions might have been prevented had I known more sides of reality than God and heaven was at the end of death. People have been looking at me more like I tried to jump to my death for the attention or the assistance, it's so hard to talk about. They have zero ways to empathize. 3 year old me is forever to blame and people will use that against me over and over if I'm not more careful. I've been quiet for so long about everything, the only logical thing to make things better now is to be more publicly open about it. I have 35 years experience in recovery and coping with TBI. Feel free to ask me any questions.

Absolutely, I had to be away from all my pets for months after my injury, including like 3 weeks of no power after a hurricane. I had to rely on family members sporadically caring for them and luckily they survived. Id have been devastated if any of them passed, especially my turtle whom I've had since I was 8-10. Since I've been home, caring for all my reptiles, fish, etc have given me something to motivate me and keep my busy, which is really good because we have to idea when I'll be able to work again