I can relate so strongly! I'm going back to school for 6 months to become a CNA Certified Nurses Assistant.But I have experience at it through volunteering or wouldn't dare. I can just imagine what your going through. My neuropsychologist helped me as they specialize on giving you several tests after getting medical info and then knowing where your deficits are they coach you on tasks to improve your deficits. I suggest this as it helped me tremendously so I could develope systems to help myself. Like Encoding strategies to name one. Schools have tutors so I would hook up with one ASAP. If you don't need one after all it is no harm to you, but if you do you haven't fallen behind because you waited too long. Tape the classes if you don't take notes well. Then write the notes after class. My therapist tought me to have confidence in my hard work. Please, if you second guess everything you probably will do lousy. That comes with time and lots of practice. Best of luck to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think going back to school is great to enhance your recovery from a traumatic brain injury. It is definitely possible...I did it and graduated! I've also been a teacher, so I know what students I like to fail and the students I like to pass. Keep in mind that you have to focus 100% and have lots of self discipline.

Teachers pass good students and fail bad students. By passing a good student it means the teacher is doing their job correctly, and justifies their position/pay. Teachers like to fail bad students because it means they are doing their job, and their position/pay is justified. I have a few tips to ensure your success:


#1 - Attend every class, and participate in every class. Ask the teacher questions and be noticed every day. Help other students in class. Bad students make the teacher look bad, so they like to fail bad students. Bad students skip class, and when they do attend they do nothing. Attend and participate in ALL classes and you will be a good student, teachers don't like to fail good students. It would make the teacher look bad.

#2 - Do everything the teacher assigns. It doesn't have to be perfect, or better than everyone else, it just has to be done with effort. Bad students make the teacher look bad, and teachers like to fail bad students. by doing EVERYTHING the teacher asks of you you are being a good student. Teachers don't like to fail good students.

#3 - Sit in the front of class and/or near other good students. Always give the vibes that you are the best student and you are learning much from the teacher. Show the teacher that you are learning what they are teaching. Teachers like to pass students that learn from them. It means they are doing their job.

I had my injury in 1997, a few years after I'd completed my bachelor's. Much later, after a long battle with getting better, I went back and did my master's. Yeah, I still have trouble with memory and other things including math. I still have the problem with my hyperacusis (noise sensitivity) - at least until recently, since it's started improving dramatically in the past few months.

While I was doing my master's, I took certain health supplements which I found produced positive benefits: folic acid, aspirin, glucosamine, nattokinase (I've since switched from nattokinase to the Neprinol) I found these things to improve my memory and mental alertness.

I bought a ceramic bulb, which produces very penetrating long-wave infrared radiation, and swapped it into a reading lamp that was already mounted above my bed. I found that by shining it down on me at night, it dramatically improved the blood circulation in my head, and thus my sleep and restfulness at night. I was able to get up with a much fresher and more invigorated feeling in the morning. A ceramic bulb doesn't produce any visible light, so I could keep the thing on at night and still sleep in pitch darkness. I still use it to this very day, and benefit from it. Works like a charm.

Avoid having a heavy lunch, because it will definitely make you fall asleep afterwards. Instead, just have very light snacks, and then eat a heavy dinner before bedtime, and use that to get a nice heavy restful sleep.

Oh yeah, I also took Tryptophane as a instant sleep aid. It works better than Melatonin. This is because when I'd have the heavy sleep after eating my heavy dinner, then I'd always wake up in the middle of the night between 2am-4am. I'd then take the Tryptophane to get myself back to sleep very quickly.

Get all the help and coaching you can get, when I had my accident I was 15 and went back to school after missing 6 months schooling but I only did a couple of classes nothing to hard, and I could not cope with that, there was too many distractions and no one at the school gave me any support at all. Look I don't know Alyssa117 it takes support from others when you have a tbi you can not do it on your OWN. Good Luck you are in my thoughts.