I have a question for anyone with knowledge of brain injuries. I sustained a very bad skull fracture at the age of 7, resulting in many surgeries as my face, skull and sinuses were rebuilt. I seemed to have few residual effects from it and, owing to other traumatic family things going on at the time, the matter was left.

Now I am in my early 30's. I've never had any counseling or formal assessment of my mental processes or anything, and I'm beginning to wonder if something I thought was a character flaw isn't actually a result of my brain injury.

(I should mention the trauma was to my frontal cortex primarily, to both hemispheres, although it was worse on my left.)

Simply put, I'm unable to do things sometimes. And I don't mean that I don't know how or anything - I just somehow can't DO them. I'll get blocked somehow. I remember sitting there crying as a kid because I knew I should do my homework, but I couldn't seem to pick up my books and do it. I'll get "blocked" now on, say, cleaning my bathtub, or making a particular phone call, or even doing a tax return. Sometimes it's important things like that, sometimes it's something small, like turning on a television (I've gone weeks without tv because of this before) or picking up a dirty sock.

I know I have phobias that are related to the injury, but those I can overcome. This, however, I can't. I've been unable to hold a job for longer than six months because I get blocked at work, and eventually employers get fed up and fire me. Is there something I can do about this? I'd give anything to be able to just make myself do things. :(