If you get a sense of decreased symptoms while working, you might want to still take short breaks to give your brain a chance to not develop a fatigue from an 8 hour day. Maybe 10 minutes of quiet ever 2 hours. You symptoms at the end of the day could also be due to hitting your limit.

A B-50 Complex is much different than a B-Complex. A B-50 Complex plus 1000 mcgs of B-12 methycobolamin or more should give you a good balance.

Yes, placebo effect can be strong (60% is common). Or, maybe she is helping you relax as she works on you. That is also beneficial. Heightened senses are normally a sign of fight or flight brain function. It increases blood flow to the brain and ratchets up the speed of processing with the adrenal system. Maybe she is increasing blood flow at your neck.

The research shows that 10 CST's diagnosing 10 patients craniums will all diagnose different conditions with no consistency between CST's.

The valuable point is that you may benefit from gentle neck mobilization and relaxation training.

Most people who have long recoveries find they need to moderate their lives in some ways even after they have made major recoveries. The injured brain often remains sensitive to stress. Alcohol sensitivity is a common lingering issue. Many of us plan on needing time to rest and recover after stressful events. We don't have to shut our lives down. We just need to plan appropriately.

Those who have had long recoveries have usually pushed too hard before, in desperation, slowing down and starting recovery. Others have needed to take measures to reduce their anxiety with meds when other efforts failed.

As you say, everybody is different. The saying goes, "If you've seen one brain injury, you've seen ONE brain injury."

There are some basics that have broad applicability. The brain needs the correct vitamins and such to strengthen the myelin sheath and blood brain barrier. It also needs to detoxify all the damaged tissue.

Then there is a genetic component some think increases sensitivity to neuro-fibrillary Tau tangle malfunction.