Ellen White does not mention being hit in the head with a brick. Instead, she describes an accident at age nine in which she was struck in the face with a stone thrown by another girl. She explains: "While I was but a child, my parents removed from Gorham to Portland, Maine. Here, at the age of nine years, an accident happened to me which was to affect my whole life. In company with my twin sister and one of our schoolmates, I was crossing a common in the city of Portland, when a girl about thirteen years of age, becoming angry at some trifle, followed us, threatening to strike us. Our parents had taught us never to contend with anyone, but if we were in danger of being abused or injured, to hasten home at once. We were doing this with all speed, but the girl followed us as rapidly, with a stone in her hand. I turned my head to see how far she was behind me, and as I did so, she threw the stone, and it hit me on the nose. I was stunned by the blow and fell senseless to the ground." (1T 9.2; LS 17; 2SG 7.1) She describes the injury as severe and life-changing, but there is no indication in her writings that she attributes her visions or what she wrote to this accident. Instead, Ellen White consistently states that her inspiration and visions came from God, not as a result of her childhood injury. If you are referencing a rumor that her writings were due to a head injury, Ellen White herself does not support this idea in her published works. References: - White, E. G. (1882). Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 1, p. 9.2. - White, E. G. (1915). Life Sketches of Ellen G. White, p. 17. - White, E. G. (1860). Spiritual Gifts, Vol. 2, p. 7.1.

Ellen White’s writings do not address whether people who experience head injuries would or would not attribute visions to those incidents. Her own account is that she did not attribute her visions to her childhood injury, but rather to divine inspiration. No further analysis or commentary on this psychological or medical question is provided in her published works. References: - White, E. G. (Various). Testimonies for the Church; Life Sketches of Ellen G. White; Spiritual Gifts. (See White Estate commentary on this topic.)