Any help with brain injury symptoms ? Also think I might be depressed

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I had a life changing brain injury a year and 10 months ago. I have chronic headaches and migraines as well as visual issues language difficulties and a cognitive disorder. I am still effected greatly and am trying to continue healing. I think I have been fighting depression especially the past few months but I am embarrassed bc my family has been so supportive. I don't want to die I want the opposite to live my life more fully but I find myself very sad & sometimes thinking of myself dying without wanting to think about it and I feel like I can't emerse myself in things. I'm unsure if the feeling of not able to emerge myself in things like I used to has more to do with the difficulties processing information after brain injury. Has anyone found that anything in particular has helped them with any of these things after brain injury or for just the depression part in general ? Whether it's simple habits or nutrition or thought patterns or anything?

I originally posted this in neurological disorders bc I wasn't sure which was fitting - apologies for the double post.

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It is very common to suffer from depression after a brain injury, and also having chronic headaches/migraines can make you a little depressed as well. Don't feel embarrassed about this--it is a neurological dysfunction from the injury...I'm not a dr but I, too, suffer from migraines and I felt it was making me depressed. Please talk to a good neurologist, or even a good family dr. I have been taking Neurotryptaline daily (just 20 mg at night) and it helps with depression and also helps prevent migraines. I still get migraines but not as many as I used to. I know that concussions can cause depression and ADHD symptoms. So don't be afraid to bring any symptoms out of the ordinary up to your doctor...they could all stem from your brain injury. Good luck to you.

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Thank you Jude ! Will bring it up on my appointment today