Military.com by Dorothy Mills-Gregg 2/3/2020
Former Green Beret Adam Smith had eight concussions during his 17-year career in the National Guard, which included deployments to Bosnia and Afghanistan.
To him, traumatic brain injury means more than the short-term memory problems that make him put tracking devices on his keys, phone and other everyday items so he can find them again.
TBI, which is often closely linked with post-traumatic stress disorder, also contributed to an "existential crisis" that almost took Smith's life in 2016.
"When you live a life of service, purpose and mission and your personal self-identity is defined and provided to you by your job and that's taken away, that really causes an existential crisis with any individual," he said.
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