Broken collar bone- confidence

I have broken both collar bones. I broke my left one being an idiot biking and it was a clean break. I was in a brace that pulled my shoulders back, it was really painful but now it is pretty much 100%. The right one I broke in the pipe and it broke like a green stick, not all the way through. I recovered quickly and then broke it or tweaked it at least 5 times after. Everything from flag football to lifting messed it up. Now it is pretty much healed but it took one more skiing fall to really mess it up then I gave it the necessary time to actually heal and took calcium which I think was the big difference. I also started actually doing the rehab exercises.

Spark notes: Give it more time than you think and don't hurry things.
 
i've healed from the injury and gone skiing a lot since. however, i have lost all confidence. i dont feel comfortable doing front/back flips or anything bigger than 5. how do i get it back, im even freaking out on the tramp!
 
well since we are posting pictures....

this sucked.

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Hey, that looks like one of my shoulders! The other one just has a bunch of screws and a dead persons ligament. Also have a couple of screws in my right knee. Pretty sweet.
 
honestly the best decision i think i made was getting surgery. one doctor said leave it the other said to operate. now a year or so later, i have all my strength, motion and a badass scar. im really glad they fixed it. otherwise i probably would have had a an extremely crooked collarbone, lost some range of motion, and the doctor said how it would have healed i probably would have lost about an inch off the length of my shoulder
 
this injury is all healed up but my confidence isnt back. Im trippen balls about going inverted and doing flatspins, etc. even on tramps im still shaky. any advice?
 
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