I just found out that I "may" have had a possible anoxic brain injury when I was born due to my lungs collapsing. My dad specualted that it could have been a few seconds and that he thinks it was less than 4 minutes. Although he is NOT sure about this. Anyway 27 years later all of a sudden I started to hear voices followed by terrible brain fog and great learning difficulties as well as terrible memory problems. Now 4 1/2 years later I've improved although I still feel "brain damaged" inside.

My memory for reading is terrible, I feel anhedonic and flat and have sleep problems. My doctors think it's a mood related disorder but I remain skeptical. I worry that somehow this possible brain injury has caused damage, significant damgage, many years later. Is this possible? Up until that time I was a fairly good student with some learning difficulties but I got good grades, did well on tests like SAT's and got into a great college.

But 3 years ago I took a neuropsyche test and did much worse than normal, scoring in the average range with an overall IQ of 103. I excelled in verbal and reading comprehension with overall score of 87 percentile but landed only in 33 percentile for math and 16 percentile for performance.

Like I said I was in my late 20's when this happened and it all came on suddenly like in a day or a week! What is this? Does this proposed brain injury factor in?

Devon