tbi: my big personality change
I don't know if it's clear or obvious that my tbi occured years after I was born. Even if it wasn't obvious or clear, don't feel bad for not knowing. My tbi happened early 2025. As I write this, it's December 28th, 2025.
My tbi caused me to have personality changes, most parts of myself are things that already existed. One thing I'm actually grateful for is that having this minimized the anxiety I had. I was actually a very anxious and shy person, I've had teachers think that what I had was just shyness and that I'd grow out of it. In reality it didn't feel like just shyness, it felt like my anxiety would get worse as time went on. During 2020, my anxiety increased due to the quarantine.
I understand others that might have either or both of those like I did, especially if your anxiety is horrible, I get it, I was in that position before. I know I'm not that anymore, it took an aneurysm to minimize that for me which is insane. I do navigate life as how I am now, without feeling anxious but there are certain situations where I still navigate certain situations like how I knew I did before when I did have anxiety. That shouldn't be surprising when most of my life was me being shy and anxious, it's a new thing that I'm not. I've had other changes in personality too but I thought make a post for just this because it's a big change to me and probably to those that knew how I was before all of this.