Personality Change After Traumatic Brain Injury

Me. It started to damage my relationship. I can’t stand the mood changes, anxiety, depression, and thinking loved ones are lying and cheating on me. I wish my brain would stop with those thoughts and leave me be.

Same!!! I don’t hesitate to take care of myself or remove myself from a gathering. It’s a hard line of what I can tolerate. Where as before I would override my system and just be there to please others. I’m very aware of my personal battery and what I use it on.

Yeah I got more aggressive, I thought it was from being in pain and struggling with mental fog, but I think it’s just a personality change. For context I am an engineering student and post-concussion every time I tried to think about math I went blank it was awful 😭 eventually I think my spacial visualization helped to replace some of the logical brain function I lost. In terms of the aggression I was extremely passive before so in some ways that helped me. Still can’t get over the feeling that I’ll never be who I was before.

I have no social filter now. But I think it's a good thing. It's so refreshing to have people know where they stand with you. As my friend once said, 'Don't waste words; jump to conclusions!'

That's exactly how I became after my traumatic brain injury. I've definitely become more blunt and upfront about things, especially my feelings.

I'm a lot more humble and blunt

My personality is alot different. Alot of ppl don't like what comes out of my mouth, I don't think I'm rude, but others do alot, I don't mean to be rude but I was brutally honest before, now it's a little more brutal I guess lol. I haven't had issues w my family, but I usually apologize in advance when I go to appts and that's basically the only time I socialize outside my family and like 2 friends lol. Life in general is much different now