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What a terrible injury your son must have sustained, and clearly it had devastating effects on his emotional centers controlling his actions in his brain.
You, with all this time and experience, and with the Social Workers at these institutions telling you what is what for your Son's case and the doctor's explaining his diagnosis and prognosis, are really the expert here. I would guess that we will have little information we can give you.
Most of us on aging care are dealing with the dementias that occur with aging. While some of our elders do have troubles with controlling their emotional centers, it is medically recognized that little can be done other than finding the right drugs or "drug cocktails" to attempt to keep our loved ones somewhere between rampaging wildly through home and hallways and sitting asleep 24/7.
It just bears no resemblance to a TBI, and TBI science is so new. It wasn't until wars that gave us percussive injuries injured so many of our young men irreparably that we even recognized this as a diagnosis.
Many TBIs are notorious for very slow healing.
I wonder, and I hope, do you have any access to hospitals specializing in this care, to any of the VA (Veteran's) hospital doctors, who are the best at working with this.
I hope someone here may have some ideas for you, but in all my five or so years on this forum I haven't heard of a TBI this serious. And I know, you being the family, will have researched this out so that, as I said, YOU are the real experts. I cannot come up with a thing for you. Your son will have to be in a state where he can be cared for, where he has some control over his violent outbursts, or he will be required to have medications that medicate him below the state where he is a danger to others. As to take him home in his current state I truly cannot imagine such a thing.
I am so very sorry. This is dreadful. My heart goes out to you and I just keep hearing Dr. Laura in my head with her "Not everything can be fixed" admonition.
I hope that time is the healer here. Brain cells can recover. People do heal. This is unimaginably hard. Can you tell us how your son sustained this awful injury?