I having a hard time coping still. It’s been almost a year. I feel hopeless and everyday is the same. Like ground hog day. I just can’t get it right. The anxiety and depression is really affecting me and I don’t see a happy productive life anymore.
I’m on keppra since I had two seizures the day of the operation. I’m wondering, hoping the depression and anxiety is a side effect.
It sounds like you need to bring the keppra up with your doctor to find out if it may be contributing. I'm 10months post sah and have been experiencing depression for a long time. Im now working with a psychologist who specialises in head injury patients and she is helping me to work through the cause. interestingly, she told me that the symptoms post head injury can look the same as depression but are physical rather than mental. I just try to remember my brain has been through a lot and is different now but please reach out for some help to your doctor because I know how awful it can feel and how useless it can make you feel too.
Hi Chris, as the other survivors mentioned anxiety, and depression comes with the territory of an aneurysm. You will need to see a therapist who would helped with your emotions. I am also a survivor of an SAH, a ruptured aneurysm. It was 2 years ago, a horrendous trauma. I’ve been through Hell, and back! But I have seek emotional helped from a therapist. Which has helped with my anxiety and depression. I’ve become stronger, able to coped with life challenges. And I certainly have challenges, I am a mom to 2 kids, a teenager, and a pre-teen. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Thank you everyone for replying. It’s a day to day battle. Everything changed in one day. I have never had anxiety or depression before. I really do appreciate this site.
hang in there you are still early in the process, it takes time to adjust and accept the highs and lows, tc, keeping you in thoughts and prayers, careful with meds, the side effects can be worse than what you may be experiencing
Ditto to all said already. And most important to me… LAUGH! When I walk into something 'cause I didn’t see it we say(my kids and I) “on the left”. Left is my blind side. When I can’t remember something “it was in the 2cm” 2cm of my brain was removed because it was so severely damaged. This was started by my sister right after my SAH. She’d tell me I didn’t need to remember that cause it was in the 2cm they removed.
There is something funny in everything.
Ultimately it’s up to us to find the funny things. Need a good joke, okay little kid jokes, I think they are best. Email me and ask! Mare629@ gmail.com
A little autum humor. My kids and I were on our walk to school one day close to Halloween when I commented there could be something huge hiding in the deep pile of leaves ( like an elephant). My daughter,then 10, says “yah like dead bodies”. XD
Humor good, bad, and down right ugly gets us through everything.
Take care and laugh all the time
Marianne