Hello, :)
I suffered a severe brain trauma 11 years ago when I was 18 (was in a medically induced coma for 2 weeks to try and reduce brain activity since my brain had bleeding and swelling) due to a car accident.
Within two weeks of waking from my coma, I regained enough motor and cognitive skills to be released from the hospital. Eventually I got on with life and was able to function just fine.
Fast forward 11 years - I have so many issues (bad memory lapses, impaired cognitive skills, slowwwwed retention, anxiety, depression, foggy thinking, irritability, lack of motivation) that I didn't have before the wreck and have massively grown over the last decade, and I'm wondering if the brain injury might've started some kind of problem that may've "sped up" issues I'd have much later in life (I've seriously started wondering if I might be in the very early stages of dementia, or something along these lines). I started seeing a neurologist for all this but stopped being able to afford it.
Any thoughts or pointers are appreciated!!! :)