Is brain damage the problem?

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I have brain damage. I had a Glasgow Coma Score of 3 which is the lowest possible. I spent 17 days in ICU and 395 hours on a ventilator. I wasn't meant to survive. I had decorticate posturing which is a sign of damage to the thalamus, mid-brain and both hemispheres. Sustained clonus and all sorts of bad signs. Survival was a long shot and by rights I should be sitting in a wheelchair staring vacantly and twitching occasionally. My recovery has been called remarkable and I personally believe having an ASD brain is the reason. I think it allows better neural plasticity.

Anyway, what I want you understand is, I get it. Brain damage is horrible but please don't try suicide. Plenty of people try it and end up with brain damage when the attempt is not successful. Please don't risk hurting yourself that way. I have bad days too. Life is not easy but don't give up, get help. If you ever need to talk you can always pm me. I may not be able to help you feel better because honestly, the only person who can is you, but I can understand your pain and frustration. Please take care.

No!! ! Why is life so horrible, id rather die by suicide than beeing like this.
I tried yesterday to jump off a bridge but someone stoped me form doing it and told me it is not the solution.
I cant accept to be brain dmaged and ill do everything to die.

I definitely hope that the doctors are right and my recent brain symptoms are all due to a case of somatic disorder. But the other poster is right. You'll end up even worse if you try doing something like that. It's better to stick around and fight to improve. I know that you can do it. Science is coming up with all sorts of technologies to repair the brain and some of them can even be utilized in tests. They're expensive, but if you can find a center doing tests such as stem cells, you could see remarkable improvement within a couple of weeks. Point is, there's an answer to this problem, at least in some of your cases.

[quoteBack in the 1960s and previously, they attributed many "minor" disorders to "minimal brain damage." So "minimal" that it cannot be detected through any means scientists had in those days.] [/quote]

Sorry im getting used to posting threads so maybe i didn't quote the text right.
Yes ADHD used to be called "minimal brain damage" but at the time so little was known on the brain that brain damage seemed the more plausible explanation.
Today we know a little more about the brain we begin to see other things than IQ.
Hope that those projects like the brain intiative will unveil mysteries about the brain.
Btw y am i posting here i am not legitimate i am supposed to have brain damage so y am i still alive here posting things i should be dead already.
My mood seems to swing badly and i dont know if it is a result of head injury.
Everybody hates me no one loves me bc i was always stupid and i am now the worst of all brain damaged.
Sorry for this abusive and long post..

Yes i didnt even manage to quote the text right the problem is i suck at everything.
If it is always like this this afternoon at 5 pm i will commit suicide.
Dont tell someone..