Chronic Illness on Yik Yak | I don’t mean to be existential, but sometimes it feels cruel that I didn’t die. Sometimes I prefer that to having long term head injury symptoms.

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Chronic Illness 16w

I don’t mean to be existential, but sometimes it feels cruel that I didn’t die. Sometimes I prefer that to having long term head injury symptoms.

Anonymous 16w

I totally relate to the existentialism, my head injury triggered or caused multiple mental illnesses, brain fog, chronic migraines, and a nice lil personality change. I’d keep the personality change (only bc I was almost non-verbal and kind of an asshole) but I’d rather not deal with the rest.

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#2 16w

Same except I’m an asshole sometimes when I’m sensory overloaded that didn’t exactly happen before. It’s not super fun.

Anonymous

OP 16w

Oh same, I can get really irritable and on edge more than before and I get frustrated more easily bc of the concentration difficulties. But I was like lowkey a budding sociopath with severe social anxiety, and somehow that soccer ball knocked it right out of me. I still have anxiety, tho just in different areas