Dr. Samantha Backhaus talks about emotional triggers after brain injury 

Thank you so much, since I’ve been hit by a car and had brain bleed and skull fracture, only my youngest kid who lives with me is understanding but other people judge me.

Thank you for sharing this. Had a TBI in 2014 and this still applies.

I went through exactly this after my tbi. I wish I had someone to tell me this at that time. Fatigue and mood swings were a real problem. Thank you for sharing this.❤

I lost allot of people to my TBI and it sucks they dont understand and I get so sick of telling new people how it is for me but I cant show them what its like there is no comparasion

i am so happy someone is addessing this. the triggers are many.

She worded it perfectly.

I had terrible sensory overload. One aspect has improved since I got the help of a hearing therapist who specialises in brain injury. She helped me to retrain my brain using a hearing ball. I learned how to become better at tolerating background noise. I get less agitated and cope a lot better.

Filtering sucks. I used to sit on my porch and talk woth friends. After my tbi I would be sitting there , not wanting to speak or know how to start conversation or when to say my piece and out of nowhere just start dry heaving with the worst naseau. Pressure in my head makes it so I'm feeling like I'm already on max overload and it doesn't matter what you say, I'm pissed off and I'm gonna react negatively. Imagine staying up all night studying for the biggest exam of your life, crushing that shit, catching your second wind and go back out to get shitfaced at the bar on later that night. On your way home , picking up a bag of bomb coke and chopping lines the size of Indiana jones' whip until the sun comes up... That feeling before you get to sleep is the kind of overload someone with a tbi feels every day. It never goes away.

Finally I have my story. 2018 was my craniotomy. I have not been emotionally or physically the same since.

Well said. As a person who has a TBI I can relate with this.

Everything in this video explained me after my tbi, perfectly.

I became epileptic from a TBI in my youth. I am learning that my emotional and mental obstacles are common in persons with head injuries. For a long time, I felt alone because nobody understood my challenges--particularly my parents--because they had no association to my condition.

Even this video being too quiet and even hearing this beautiful woman pronounce her ‘S’ in words is enough for me to walk out the room.

I basically just isolated myself for a decade and for the last three years been living in my car

I stay at home. I do get to the store, but I've stopped all others I only see my family once a week and used to see them everyday if not every other day. I've basically lost my partner as well. It's just come to me yesterday about all this. I had I thought was a the best friend ever now does not return my text. Yesterday I heard the song"I Lost A Friend' and I realized I had lost me.

This is me whenever I'm around my brother. Everytime I'm near him I'm instantly on edge. He is well aware of my TBI but always tries starting problems even when I'm apologizing for something I did wrong. Then next thing I know I am fuming with anger. But if someone else makes me mad I'm quite calm about it. It's just my brother gives off this vibe I don't like. Well he's done a lot of things nobody would like which is probably why this vibe from him is there for me so often.

Now I understand all these years why I can’t keep a job for a longer period or unable to socially function well in big crowds. I was thrown off a galloping horse when I was a child back in the mountains. I lost my grip on my father’s back. In my early 20s I tumbled down a hill down to the village due to some stupidity 😂 thanks for the information. It’s very helpful. Finally I know now why I can’t function in a normal society 😭

This is so helpful and comforting for me to hear. I feel like I’ve lost my mind.

I have trouble with crowds and loud noises.

Had serious poly trauma and serious brain trauma 3yrs 8months after cycling and van drove straight into me 70mph. I live alone couldn't take family life, I struggle with fatigue and try to follow routine and not see people. I have a manageable life big issues, noise vision, information overload cant take info in well. just keep going but short sessions and if tired, sleep. I looses days when I cant get going but it does come back

Spot on!!!!!!

Stay strong stay safe sending love from headway Nottingham UK takecare x

Spot on thanks for sharing stay safe stay strong x

Thank u❤

Omg this is me im like 😭😭😭😭 my TBI was untreated x

Soooooooo so so true!!! Thx

It's like being trapped in Hell.

I have trouble with crowds and certain people

Lots of lights like in Reno casinos is over stimulation for me and I notice I have a short fuse around bullies at jobs. Luckily I am retired now n don't have to deal with jerks

Yes, short time to be able to manage the stimulation of interaction with others and complexities. Keep it simple sweetheart.

People are the worst triggers. Always have been. Early developmental damage from family and several other concussive events throughout life. God forbid I have a good couple hours or a day people will want it all the time. If any of them tried to walk a mile in this they most likely could not do it. Oh well.

2014 MY tbi also sub arracnoid hemorage and sbdural hematomas I`m still alive but frightened because of the greater increase of stroke. I`m 57

I get violently angry when I hear people chewing. I feel unsafe. Not like I might die, but unsafe like I worry that I may really hurt someone. I know it’s not normal. I think about doing terrible things to people I think I care about.

Agree 💯 percent

This is me! I see certain coworkers and i just know. I am not doing this to myself. It is my injury. There is one coworker her likes to hear herself talk. There is one coworker who says everything with the same intonation which is the wrong intonation and makes me think everything is a question. There are the accents. There are the people who beat around the bush. There are people who are zoned out and need help doing everything. I find the most painful ones the people who interject when the conversation is ending for one final point/question. Very. Very. Very painful and extremely annoying and makes me think you are an idiot. There are are people who think you are drunk. Then there are people who think you arent taking care of yourself. The bottom line is i learned that i usually want to explain myself to the biggest as hole in the room. Which means i dont do that because it wouldnt change how they treat me. That was a big wake up call. People dont deserve an explanation. Put that explanation in your power reserves. Half the time my explanation wouldnt be good enough and not nearly encompass what it feels like and since they see it and dont understand i doubt they will feel it when i describe it.

I have alot of these triggers and I honestly have no memory of having an injury. ._.

My trigger is the race of the men that attacked me. I’m not sorry for my hatred..

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So how can you help this. I have a TBI and when I can't sleep for days on end and super sick, very high pain I got widespread pain thru my whole body after that. But I can do the leeks thing and it's like I trigger everyone around me then I'll feel bad or not understand what just happened then I can't stop crying. And before I never cried over anything really. And now my husband didn't know how to help me and just gets mad. And leaves me in that state. I dint what to do to help self calm myself and anytime I cry my brain swells and it just gets worse. So if I can't get help to sooth myself right away then I'm so messed up that eventually I feel like it's better for me to just get my own place cause then I'm snapping at my loved ones when I dint want to and slamming doors even. Like, whatever the thing is that gives you the ability to calm down or self sooth is broken. It got better after hbot treatments but now 2yrs later is back and it's pretty intense. Is there a way to just stop crying? That could help me at least Keri the brain swelling down.

What is TBI?

Ladies with high pitch voices are triggers!!

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YOUR AUDIO SUCKS. PEOPLE WITH BRAIN INJURIES MAY NOT BE ABLE TO HEAR AS WELL AND IT MAKES US WORK 100% HARDER TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND.