Thanks for the response, I appreciate you putting inflammation into perspective.

I take curcumin supplements and omega 3 fish oil since I've read it reduces inflammation. However, I do not take any anti inflammatory medication. Is this something I should consider and ask my doctor about?

My lifestyle definitely feels high stress to me but the cause for 95% of my anxiety and stress revolves around my health and worrying about my brain and concussion issues. When I wake up I an anxious since I know I will have to walk and take the metro, when I am out with friends or studying I worry about the contact I will have to make(hugs, kisses, hard handshakes, slaps on the back) and keep my head on a swivel to make sure I do not receive any serious impacts.

When I am at home resting or when I'm supposed to be studying I am instead on websites like these or analyzing and listing all the events from my day/the last several months and trying to calm myself down by ruminating over the incidents that happened and convincing myself that they are in 'non damaging' list we made in a previous thread and that I will one day be ok. Before I go to bed however I meditate, watch shows, or read other things in order to go to sleep with something other than thinking about my symptoms and worries.

My daily routine would not be high stress if I did not have symptoms and did not worry about my health. To put things in perspective, this day last year I was a two sport star athlete, getting good grades in my last year of high school, was a founding member and salesman for a product company, had an active social life and just met my now longterm gf, worked out and ran almost every day, was on the student council and all this while most likely suffering from unresolved concussions(I was wholy uneducated about the dangers of pushing through them).

Now my routine on an average day is this:
-Walk to the metro
-take metro 4 stops (the first three are fine and not that bad but the last stop I have to switch lines to the green line and that last stop can get really bouncy/shaky and cause problems, that 90 second ride is the worst part of my day)

-arrive at school and go to class
-after class I do one of the following three things depending on the day
1.walk 20 minutes to my grandmas house and eat/rest for 3 hours before walking back to school and waiting for my next class

2.go directly to my next class(gym class where I do some light cardio, light weight training and stretching)

3.take the metro and walk back home because it was my only class of the day. When I get home I usually have lunch and rest for a bit before starting to research/worry about concussions and analyzing the harmful potential of that days/past months events until I reach a state of semi-satisfaction and I can focus on something else until I go to bed.

Sometimes after school, instead of going home I will take the metro and go to my gf house to rest, hang out, have 'intimate' time and have dinner and then take the metro home later at night.

On Thursday I have cbt, on Saturday I have oestheo and some other time in the week I'll generally have physio or some medical appointment. All these require me to travel by bumpy car or bouncy metro. Also sometimes during the weekend I will spend time with friends(going to ones house for a social gathering, go to cinema, restaurant, etc). All these require me to either walk, take the metro or drive. Generally though I try and take it pretty easy on the weekends.

Also sometimes but rarely I will have an event I can't miss that will require me to travel further like when I had to go on a 45 minute drive on terrible roads to attend an important event with my gf's friends and family.

Then of course there is the bumps and jostles that inevitably happen in day to day life but I have posted about these at length in the past months. I also often play basketball by myself or with a friend in the backyard(although obviously not now since its winter).

So yah that's pretty much my life at the moment, of course there's more stuff that I'm missing like a couple months ago I went on a family trip to Boston and had to drive on some bad roads to get to and from the airports and around Boston as well as walking in Boston and obviously taking the plane.

As far as the brain capacity question it's hard for me to say. I could argue both ways.

On one side, I DEFINITELY feel impacted, I have awful fog and blankness and get very self conscious and struggle in conversations with new people, feel like I sound slow and 'punch drunk' when I speak, feel like I have trouble following in movies, feel like my brain gets tired easily, sometimes feel nauseaus when working or researching concussions or writing these long posts.

All in all the best way I can describe it is feeling as if my brain is working at 30% and my brain which was once filled with creativity, inspiration, passion, desire and constant thought and activity is now a desolate wasteland plagued by the toxic fumes of worry, panic, dread and inflammation. Sometimes my mind just feels blank and this is unbelievably terrifying. It feels as if my brain is deteriorating and my brain cells are being slowly killed off by the daily things I stress over (walking, metro, etc)

On the other hand however, a few months ago I was evaluated by a top neurologist who said I had no noticeable deficits. A few days ago I spoke with a top psychiatrist who said I sounded very intelligent and articulate and should consider becoming a psychologist for my career. My parents and gf say they have not noticed any drop off in my intellect and my friends have not mentioned anything about me acting differently besides that I am now more quiet. (even though for me I feel severely brain damaged when I have conversations with them)

Ive also gotten above class average in the exams in school that I have taken so far even though I was foggy and symptomatic while taking them and I hardly studied. I definitely feel pretty brain damaged in school sometimes though, it can be hard for me to read and understand things, remember, etc and like I said I can get nauseous doing these things sometimes.

So yah I hope I answered all your questions. Please tell me if my worries that I am slowly deteriorating my brain with these activities or if it's ok for me to continue. Also if you think certain things like the metro or the walking could be problematic or really any comments you have would be greatly appreciated.