I'm 26.

I have been struggling in every aspect of life. I've been diagnosed with ADD, and tried Adderall and it didn't help at all. This year, I contacted psychological help, and brain injury was brought up in interviews.

Although growing up my parents said the time I broke my nose as a child was just a broken nose, I always had a feeling it was more than that. I broke my nose when I impacted into a wall face-first, so my forehead received an impact too.

I have always had very severe cognitive impairments. The list of things I've been labeled in order are lazy, stupid, emotionally troubled, and then ADD. Now both my psychotherapist and I believe it was a childhood traumatic brain injury that caused me to grow up with such severe impairments. I have it worse than ADD.

Has anyone experienced or known someone who has had a traumatic brain injury? Any advice?