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Traumatic brain injury (TBI), traumatic injuries to the brain, also called intracranial injury, or simply head injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes brain damage. TBI can resu...

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Tuesday December 1, 2009

Painful Stories

  • pneumonia

    Thursday, May 1, 2008 | A Painful story

    weazer is dead. 
    i feel like i failed her.  i did fail her.  when i tell k he will say, never use a vet because when you do the animals die.  that's his experience.  my vet (one of three) ripped me off.  the one last week "had no appointments" as he was going away.  this one knows an ex of mine but his new wife does billing.  they billed me fo...

    1 Recommendation

    9 Comments

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  • we've been having a hard time

    Friday, June 6, 2008 | A Painful story

    4 about 24 hours after i told lola that i loved her things went well. then she became very upset and would not leave her mother;s home and started cutting herself. both lola and were abused as kids. I was physically and emotionally abused and in addition 2 those, lola was also sexually abused. we both SI when stressed.
    things r getting better. i am beginning to accept life without any use of ...

    1 Recommendation

    5 Comments

  • Not being on in a while

    Saturday, July 19, 2008 | A Painful story

    I have not been on for a while mostly because of my back has been so bad that I can`t sit for very long and other problems that I am going through.Some of them are very personal so I won`t talk about them at this time.The last time I went to my pain doctor he gave me some injections in my lumbar spine and it helped but now my hips and low lumbar are so sore and painful that it is affecting my who...

    2 Recommendations

    4 Comments

  • SHOCK

    Wednesday, September 10, 2008 | A Painful story

    Well I don't know a lot but Dad has a tumour and the prognosis is not good at all.
    We had already planned on going over East for Christmas to see my husband's family and my folks, now we'll be spending most of that with my parents.  His in Vic.  MIne in S.a.
    I want to thankyou all for your prayers and kind words and thoughts since I shared this shocking news.
    Mum and Dad are in...


    1 Recommendation

    6 Comments

  • A Slice of Compassion

    Monday, January 5, 2009 | A Painful story

    I was in line today behind an older woman who was having trouble getting her lottery tickets, change and car keys in and out of her purse.   Not the kind of trouble that would make you think she was in danger or a danger.  Nothing alarming.  Just an older woman slowing down and struggling a bit with the fumbling demands of every day.
    I was behind her when she pulled out left an...

    2 Recommendations

    4 Comments

  • I said goodbye

    Saturday, February 7, 2009 | A Painful story

    I said goodbye to a good friend today.A friend who is not able to be my friend anymore. A friend who was very good to me and I was very good too but something is lost and this person is not able to be my friend anymore.Maybe in the future things will change,I feel so lost and scared right now and because I have mutual friends who know this person where I attend at my clubhouse I can't talk to...

    2 Recommendations

    11 Comments

  • why why why!!!

    Friday, February 20, 2009 | A Painful story

    I don't understand I work so hard to improve myself and turn my life around and I get stabbed in the heart!! I can't fix my credit rating,in fact it is so bad that no one can really help me.My Case management agency doesn't do that kind of work. I can't figure out how to fix it.I might have to move clubhouses now!! I don't want to move to another city and another clubhouse and...

    1 Recommendation

    5 Comments

  • My Heinze

    Sunday, March 22, 2009 | A Painful story

    My Heinze is dying.  He has been having little strokes or seizures.
    The vet says it is sometimes hard to tell the difference - they have been coming more often and Thursday night was the worst one.  He's having trouble walking and he is not eating at all today - he won't even eat liverwurst or bacon.  
    I am praynig so hard but hes not going to get better - he's almost 14 ...

    1 Recommendation

    19 Comments

  • Grrrrrrrrr

    Wednesday, April 1, 2009 | A Painful story

    Been on the phone to health fund HBF. 
    They wont let us claim the orthodontic treatment Brooke has to have because there's a 12 month waiting period for these claims.  Darn it!  Not happy

    1 Recommendation

    4 Comments

  • fuck it. over it.

    Wednesday, September 2, 2009 | A Painful story

    Not like my fuckin life is shit enough...
    i cant wake up on time. 
    havent been able to since, forever.
    Struggling at work. Always late now, always tired. less patience. more shit to do . more shit to deal with. more work to do. Not enough time in a day to do it all. 
    Oh and then home. Couldnt pay the electric. cant get assistance. I make "too little" or "too much" wtf, ...



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    14 Comments


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