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Originally Posted by Mark in Idaho
Yes, dizziness can be caused by a spike in anxiety. Plus, having your eyes closed removes the visual sensation that you are not moving or spinning so your only sense of movement is your vestibular system. Anxiety puts this system into overdrive as it tries to make sense.
Have you ever considered hypnotherapy to try to learn to not respond so severely to a contact with your head ? These upsetting contacts appear to be far below any threshold of pain or injury.
Did you see my post about LED Technologies products ? They offer the same wavelengths (Low infrared, near infrared and infrared) as Dr Kahn's products and clinic.
http://revivelighttherapy.com/collections/pain-relief |
Mark, somehow missed your post. I have in fact tried hypnotherapy, probably 7 sessions. Did not provide much benefit other than feeling fairly relaxed. I'm currently trying EMDR to help with this. I'm getting better at brushing off impacts that I can believe are benign, but this one seemed more significant, perhaps because it was so startling since I was trying to relax, I don't know, but given how I've felt the past couple days it's worse than other minor impacts, which normally just manifest in pain where I hit/thought I hit my head.
Thanks for the LED info. While this step is part of Kahn's protocol, it's not the whole thing. A series of LED treatments appear to be a sort of "warm-up", saturating the tissues with light, before applying something more like a laser-pointer that is an actual laser, not just LED. Whether this makes a significant difference, who knows.
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26 year-old PhD student in evolutionary biology, slipped on ice in Feb 2014 while clipping my fingernails and walking to save time (dumbest reason for PCS ever?). Initially just had headaches and didn't feel quite right, but a minor head bump 5 days later started a downward spiral of anxiety, depression, insomnia and fatigue. Had trouble concentrating on reading/looking at screens
April 2014 - did exertion test, passed, started exercising and doing more, but didn't feel much better.
May 2014 - Went on backpacking trip OK'd by doctor, trip itself went fine, but felt worse a few days after getting back, more difficulty concentrating, worse headaches.
June 2014 - Bumped head on ceiling walking slowly down stairs, no immediate symptoms, but caused worsening headahces, more difficulty concentrating and looking at screens. Have not felt as good as I did before this since this bump.
December 2014 - after feeling relatively better I went xc skiing and fell but didn't hit my head (something my psychologist who specializes in brain injuries told me he hoped would happen so I saw it was OK), felt worse
Feb 2015 - back in grad school, light teaching load and some research, nowhere close to operating at my full capacity. Still have constant headaches, difficulty reading/looking at screens, mild anxiety and depression, and just not feeling like my normal sharp self.
Trying, but struggling, to believe that I'll get back to my old self, or at least get close.
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